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Kansas University Weekly.
Two years ago the student self-government council was established to maintain good order in the University. It consists of eleven members; the president of the University, who is chairman, and ten students elected from the four classes. It tries cases of openly dishonest work, cheating at examinations and other misdemeanors.
By far the most difficult question to touch is that regarding the attitude of the young men towards co-education in general and towards us in particular. As to the first, it seems pretty certain that a fair majority of the men do not believe in or approve of co-education. There are a great many interesting statements in the newspapers regarding the ill treatment of Cornell girls by the men. They have just this foundation in fact. The young men who come here from families of the highest social standing, the sons of wealthy parents, certainly do not recognize the college women as their social equal. Nor should they. The girls do not expect it nor care for it. They have come to realize that the mere fact of their being students at the same college with these men, gives them no claim on attentions which they could not otherwise expect. Certainly these wealthier men, our four hundred are not enthusiastic about women or Cornell.
2. VASSAR.
There has been so much enthusiasm in regard to out-door sports this spring that an Athletic Association has been organized to superintend the various athletic interests.
Basket ball and battle ball, which during the winter months have been practiced in the gymnasium, are now being played out of doors.
Golf links have been laid out and some interest has been taken in the game.
We have several dirt courts for tennis, and a stimulus is always given to the practice of this old time favorite by the annual tournament that takes place in the fall.
Bicycling has come into special favor at Vassar, and at almost any hour of the day, even before breakfast, the girls may be seen about the grounds on their wheels.
It cannot be said that any of our women are
entirely self-supporting while in college, although a number of these help very materially to defray the expenses of their college life.
A few earn enough during the summer months or by leaving college a year to complete their course. There are scholarships and funds which are given to those who apply for them, as well as loans which may be repaid without interest after the student has left college.
It is possible for a student to pay all her expenses, except her tuition, by doing work in connection with the college; such as tutoring, delivering mail, taking care of chapel and reading room, library work, copying, etc.
There exists in college a Current Topics Club. This is limited as to its members, and holds meetings where different subjects of the day are discussed. But the uninitiated are also kept informed by the daily bulletins posted by members of this club. They each take turns in preparing a digest of the news of the day, which is then placed beside the official bulletin board.
3. BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
With the recent change in courses and the requirement of fewer prescribed studies, there is afforded great opportunity for individual choice. To regard the subject from the record and more important meaning of specializing, it might be said that the faculty and most students who intend to specialize recognize the advisability of deferring such work until the completion of the college course. The specialist, like the professional worker, requires certainly four years of general training; he needs to know something of many things before he can attempt to know everything of one thing.
Many interests absorb the hours of the city student. The numerous sociological conferences of the winter claim attendance from the social science student; new courses added to the prospectus offer fresh cause for perplexity. Shall she take the Portugal course because it completes the requirements for romance philology? Shall she take Sanscrit because it crowns all her language work, and—now especially—she questions, because it has a fasci-