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sity are always welcome. Besides, the University has its own Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C. A. organizations which aim to take hold upon every student who is willing to take advantages they offer. The chapel exercises held every morning in University Hall are a source of daily help to a large number. At the exercises the professors and pastors who are willing take part. Their influence is all the more beneficial as attendance is entirely optional to all.
On the social side the University and the city can cater to the most varied tastes. If you belong to the upper ten of society at home and desire to enter exclusive society here, you can find as uppish people here as you can wish. Whether you can manage to enter their circles will depend upon you and the recommendations you can bring, and whether it will be a good thing for you to seek such society must depend upon you and what you are here for. If you are of a gay and sportive temper you can find a fraternity to suit your case exactly, and if you want genuine brothers or sisters to fraternize with, they can be found. But all such organizations have their own ways of introducing themselves, and holding themselves aloof; so that they should be given some reflection before a decision is made for or against them.
Boarding clubs, dancing clubs, musical societies and others are on the ground and are ready to offer their own peculiar advantages to those who belong to them, but the numbers that can be reached by them are necessarily limited.
The most important of all the social opportunities offered in our institution is no doubt the open door of many of the best homes of the city. Many of our best citizens make it a point to cultivate the acquaintance of students and gladly receive and entertain them at their homes. As is natural, this is more particularly true of the professors than of others. Several of the professors keep open house to students every Friday evening of the year.
As suggested at the beginning, the time of the student for these matters is not great after the principal object of attendance has received its share, but both religious and social opportunities are considerable—sufficient and wholesome for all students of right motives and habits.
Scholarships.
For the first time in its history the University is able to present to the public a statement of a respectable beginning in the direction of scholarships and other financial help for students in this institution. At the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in June it was decided to offer a general undergraduate scholarship of one hundred dollars to students of the schools of Arts and Engineering, to be known as the "D. H. Robinson Scholarship," in honor of our late lamented Professor Robinson. The rules to regulate the awarding of this scholarship are to be left to the faculties of the schools concerned. The matter will no doubt receive the attention of the faculties early in September. This scholarship will be available next year, as the Alumni Association is able to meet its part of the engagement at once. Through the generosity of citizens of Lawrence, Dr. Holmes offers a post-graduate scholarship of one hundred dollars per year for the encouragement of advanced study in the Latin department. This plan can do donbt be realized as soon as a suitable candidate can be found to receive the help. In the Pharmacy school Professor Sayre has at his disposal the sum of fifty dollars which he employs in the assistance of the students of that department. Besides these provisions the "Students' Loan Fund"—the special care of graduating classes—now amounts to several hundreds and is wisely administered by a competent committee. What has been done in this direction is all of recent date and it is hoped that it is only a beginning that may be speedily followed by many other enterprises of a similar character.