LIBRARY "BUGS"
ARE MOSTLY MEN
A STUDENT PROVES IT BY STATISTICS.
Says Men Are Interested In World News, While Women Read the Home Papers.
More men students than women take advantage of the reading rooms of Spooner library according to statistics kept by a College student who had his curiosity aroused on the subject early in the term. The following is an account of his investigation as he gives it:
"My work this year has been of such a nature," says the student, "as to keep me in close touch with the library, and through sheer curiosity I have taken the 'census' of the three principal rooms of the library at haphazard times almost every day since last September. Now I have enough figures to make reliable averages and the results which I have obtained from them are in some cases quite surprising. I find that the average number of women students to be found in the entire library at all times is 38, the average number of men 45. The largest number of students I have ever found in the library was just 150, of which number 67 were women and 83 were men. This was on Monday morning, October 10. Perhaps the St. Mary's football game on the previous Saturday had something to do with this by keeping the students from getting their Monday lessons on that Saturday. Yet there is always a larger number of students in the library on Monday mornings than at any other time, the average being 55 women and 64 men.
"The smallest number I found in the library at any one time was 12, on the evening of Saturday, October 29, the day of the Washburn football game. Of this number four were women and eight were men."
"Taking first the main reading room of the library, there is an average of 27 women and 17 men in this room all the time. The women noticeably predominate on the north side of the room and the men on the south side. This peculiarity is perhaps due chiefly to the location of the halls where wraps are left when entering the library. At night the numbers drop off to 18 women and 13 men in this room.
"Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Monday mornings show the only notable variations in the numbers, not only in the main room, but in all the rooms. The averages show that very few are to be found in the library on Friday nights, a large number on Saturday mornings, an average number on Saturday afternoons, and a small number on Saturday nights, although the last number has steadily increased since the beginning of the term.
"On Friday nights the average number of women in the main reading room is five, the average number of men is ten. On Saturday forenmoons the numbers are respectively 20 and 11; on Saturday evenings three and four; and on Monday mornings 35 and 31. Thus it is seen that there are usually more women than men in the main reading room, but in the other two rooms the men more than balance this difference.
"In the reading room upstairs are to be found usually more
men than women. The averages for this room at all times are 14 women and 19 men. On Friday evenings there are five women and 17 men; on Saturday mornings the figures stand 18 and 24 respectively; on Saturday nights one and seven, and on Monday mornings 16 to 24.
"Finally, in the newspaper reading room the men are invariably in the majority. The average numbers to be found in this room are one woman and five men. At night the average is two women and no women. On Friday evenings the average is no women and three men; on Saturday mornings two women and four men; on Saturday evenings no women and one man; and on Mondays four women and nine men.
"As these figures would tend to show, the men seem to be more interested in newspapers than the women. The men are usually to be found reading the general world news in the big city dailies, the women frequent the newspaper room only on Saturdays and Mondays when the local papers from home arrive. Another factor, however, may enter into the showing of the figures,—that is that the men are drawn into the newspaper room more than the women because of their hat-room being on the south side and leading directly into it."
THOSE PRACTICAL JOKES.
This Unfeeling Trick Was Perpetrated at a Boarding House.
Life is not grapes nor even velvet in a Lawrence boarding house Personal feelings receive as much consideration as a large hat in a nickelodeon, and practical jokes of which the following is a sample, run wild Get out your tear mop, agitate your sympathy gland and listen.
Henry Bing was just going to bed. Time, 4 a.m. And as the forthecoming morning was Saturday, he decided to sleep through a few rounds of the hour-hand, after daylight. Accordingly he wrote the following note, which he pinned on the outside of his door:
Henry slept for a while the next morning—just a little while. After he had been waked up ten times, by ten different fellows with the same old question of "Where are they?" "Come through with the weeds," Henry's angry passions arose to such . . point that he forced himself from under the covers and rushed over to the door where his sign hung. There he read:
"Please don't disturb; want to sleep."-Hank."
"Just received a box of cigars from father. Come in and see me."—Hank."
FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Bible study at Penn enrolls 725 in its list.
Syneuse gives two hours of college credit to any student who participates in a Varsity debate.
The joint Yale-Columbia diplomatic course is said to have proved a failure, only one student having received a certificate.
The practice of holding interclass debates has just been inaugurated at the Universityof Nebraska.
The American college which has the greatest percentage of its alumni in Who's Who, is Amherst. The per cent is 6.6.
Certain undergraduates at Brown are planning to hold a debate in French. They expect to receive both oratorical and French credit for their efforts.
The Pennsylvania publishes a list of fourth year men delinquent in handing in their material for the Senior Record. This, the last week for handing in the pictures and write-ups, shows about 160 still due.
Yale may receive a $50,000,000 endowment if the trustees are able to arrange it. The present endowment is about $13,000,000 but is proving inadequate with increasing demands on the university.
With the announced intention of keeping students from down town dance halls, the track team of Minnesota has started to a system of weekly dances to run through the winter. It is expected that a more cordial college spirit will in this way be fostered.
The national banquet of the University of Michigan alumni to be held in New York City, at which it is planned to have a thousand alumni present including a justice of the supreme court, four senators, and twenty-one congressmen, is definitely announced for Feb. 4.
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