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has been considerable arbitrariness too this year with which Cowan is not to be blamed. Two minutes and the Thanksgiving day game would have been ours. Within only five yards of never defeated team! Our coach had many unusual things to contend with while Missouri had a seven thousand dollar appropriation and a shrewd inextravagant business manager. And yet notwithstanding all this there is feeling against Prof. Cowan because since Pop. Bliss from a prejudiced position has modestly intimated that the Puke foot-ball coach, i.e., himself, is better than the one just across the line in the Sunflower state. It is strange that an idle
letter in a cheap paper will influence some people to spread abroad such a lofty opinion in their learned manner. Have an opinion, but let it be the conviction of your conscience. Have the backbone to express that opinion. Don't find fault with Cowan just because the Missouri game cost you some money. It is probable that you can make good your loss next November. Just one statement more, in the Thanksgiving game it was Prof. Cowan's trick that won us our only touchdown. The double pass play was the sole invention of Cowan and not of Mastin to whom the credit has been given.
LITERARY.
[To the Women's League of Kansas University we are indebted for permission to publish the following extracts from letters received from members of the Correspondence League. This Correspondence League was established by the University of Michigan for the purpose of bringing into closer sympathy the young women of the leading coeducational institutions of the country. Vassar, Wellesley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kansas University, Boston University, Cornell, Northwestern and Michigan, also Wesleyan University of Wisconsin and Oberlin make up the circuit. Besides picturing the life of college women outside of study hours, each letter is supposed to answer questions of general interest suggested by the correspondence committee. The following are some of this year's questions:
What are your members?
How do you live, as to rooms, room mates, etc?
How, and by whom is the social life carried on?
What are the favorite means of recreation?
What is percentage of women who specialize?
The answers to these questions cannot fail to interest all those connected with educational work.]
I. CORNELL.
There are two hundred and one young women registered in the various courses in Cornell University this year, not quite so large a number as usual, but in proportion to the number of men nearly the same as a year ago. Eight of the thirty-six undergraduate scholarships are held by women, three of the twenty-two fellowships, and four out of sixteen graduate scholarships. These all being given in recognition of superior attainments in scholarship, show beyond question that the girls rank at least evenly with the men in actual work. It is a significant fact that the Phi Beta Kappa society elected to its membership six women and five men from the class of '94, and for several years a good proportion of the number chosen have been women. The Sigma Xi, also, the honorary society for Scientists, has already several women in its list of members.
The ice last winter was both thick and smooth so that much power of concentration was gained by efforts to shorten study hours in order that hours for skating might be correspondingly lengthened. Walking is by far the most popular pastime. The beautiful glens about Ithaca allure not only "fiends" in search of rocks, fungi, flowers and bugs, but non-scientific pleasure seekers as well.