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THE STUDENTS JOURNAL.
connection with assigned lessons in text books, and in addition, lectures by members of the bar and bench on branches to which they have given special study. Of the latter class, are the lectures by Justice Brewer on Corporations, and Justice Harlan on Constitutional Law. These two men are the most popular of the law lecturers. and deservedly so. It is probably unnecessary to remind you that Mr. Justice Brewer is from Kansas, and served on the Supreme Bench of the State for fourteen years. He constantly makes reference to Kansas in his lectures.
We have another member of our law faculty, known as the quiz master. It is his business twice a week to find out how much we don't know on the subjects already studied, and he is often very successful. His quizzes, with the quizzes of the regular instructors make the course thorough enough to satisfy even the most exacting students. You know many of them are very hard to satisfy on this point.
Of course you want to know if we have much college "enterprise" or "enthusiasm." No one seems to have a very definite idea as to what such a thing as college "enterprise" is or what good it does in many of its phases, but all think it must be most industriously fostered no matter what form it takes, even if it is a May Pole. Well, we have a considerable amount of it when one remembers that most of the students work a good part of the day, and find it hard sometimes to get enough time to do even the required reading of the course. We have college glee, and mandolin clubs, a debating club that does good work, a mask and wig club, and class elections that arouse the usual amount of animosity among the embryo politicians. Some of these organizations are in good part supported by students in other departments of Columbian University. Perhaps I shall speak of them more fully hereafter.
In many ways Columbian with its night sessions, its situation in the center of a large city, and in its payment of fees, is different from K. U., but something occurred last night that almost made me imagine that I was back on Mount Oread once more. A petition was being circulated A petition asking that the Thanksgiving Holiday be extended two days.
FRANK H. MOORE.
PENNSYLVANIA.
Your kind inquiries in regard to the K. U. contingent at the U. of Pa. are duly appreciated. We are still at large, no fatalities reported up to date.
The STUDENTS JOURNAL (papers may come and papers may go but the JOURNAL goes on forever) has brought sad news unexpected defeat upon the football field, but we anticipate more happy results from the Thanksgiving game. May the Missouri Tigers meet the fate of their eastern brethern, whose name and colors they have adopted. Foot ball is of course, the all absorbing topic here and Pennsylvania has no reason to be ashamed of her record. With all indications so favorable at present. "Pennsylvania" is indeed to be congratulated. The easy defeat of Princeton was a surprise and a similar victory over Harvard is predicted.
College spirit, so conspicuous in the West by its absence, is noticeable every where in the East. At the U. of Pa. every student wears a pin or a button and has yards and yards of the red and blue at his disposal. The Philadelphia girl who doesn't wear the University colors is the exception. Princeton Yale and Harvard have active alumni associations in the city. There are fifteen men from Ann Arbor in the Medical Department alone. The "medics," by the way, take an active part in all University affairs and among them are graduates from Yale to Leland Stanford Jr. The "medics" number over eight hundred and the total enrollment is between 2100 and 2200, a slight increase over last year.
For the sake of old memories we should like to wear the crimson on Thanksgiving day, but that color will be rather unpopular in Philadelphia on the 29th.
We shall wait anxiously for the report of the Kansas City game. Rock Chalk! Jay Hawk! K.U! This is an off year for Tigers anyhow. JAMES V.MAY,'97 M.
YORKTOWN, KANS. NOV. 29, 1894.
GENTLEMEN:Enclosed please find my subscription to STUDENTSJOURNAL.I must say I admire your paper in every respect and it is with pleasure I contribute my small quota to supporting a paper clear cut and tasty in its make up. What is the matter with your foot-ball team? If wishes could win games and it was left to me-what glory