COLUMBIA SYSTEM OF DORMITORIES
MEMBER OF FACULTY DES CRIBES ARRANGEMENT.
Two $250,000 Structures There Modern Equipment and Telephones in Use
The recent plans which have been adopted towards the establishment of a system of dormitories in the University of Kansas have aroused the interest of the students in the system of dormitories in use in other large universities.
The State University of Georgia has not long ago completed the establishment of a system of dormitories, and Columbia University in New York city has dormitories for both men and women. The Kansan is able to give an account of the dormitory system at Columbia University as described by a member of the faculty who was a student and instructor at that institution for four years before coming to Kansas.
The dormitory system there comprises two great halls, the Livingston and Harley halls, that were donated to the University by some rich members of the alumni. Each one of these structures is reputed to have cost $250,000. The buildings are nine stories high and will accommodate three hundred students with an average number of two rooms for the student. There are suites of two and three rooms with possible four room suites that can be formed by combinations of the other suites and each building has fifteen or twenty single rooms. All are heated by steam. In the bedroom of each suite, the student has hot and cold water while each floor is fitted with shower baths. All the lighting is done by electricity. Mission furniture of massive build and in perfect taste furnishes all the suites. The bedrooms also have a large wardrobe and a thoroughly sanitary iron couch. All bed linen is supplied by the dormitory management and towels are changed every day. The doors to the rooms are of heavy oak which, when closed, cut off the sound from the outside. The floors in the halls are of pebbled concrete and the flooring of the rooms is rift oak, which is very highly polished, and are built perfectly solid to prevent any echoing in the building. There is a double system of stairs in each structure and the elevator runs night and day with an elevator underneath for the purpose of carrying baggage to the floors.
Every day at least before 11:00 o'clock, the rooms are thoroughly dusted and cleaned in the minimum of time. The floors are kept immaculately clean and oiled. Telephone service is on each floor and arrangements are being made for the installation of private phones for such students as wish them.
The halls of the building were built fire-proof and one of the stair cases at the end of the building was cut off from the remainder by heavy fire-proof doors which would prevent the two flights of stairways creating a draft and in case of fire, make it possible for escape from the building.
On the first floor of each Hall is a huge lobby, about 100 by 100 feet, taking up half of the floor space of this story. Dark red stones flag the floor and a dozen
huge oak pillars, twenty feet high, support the ceiling. At one end of this magnificent room is a fire-place about five feet deep, eight feet high and eight feet wide. This is finished in Georgian marble and during the winter months large wood fire is lighted. About the lobby are many heavily cushioned mission oak chairs and lounges, capable of accommodating two hundred men. A piano is also placed in this room.
A portion of the space of this floor is taken up by a few single rooms and numerous telephone booths. The manager's office, sub-postoffice, local express station, and the local laundry station are also on this floor. There are two large reception rooms for the ladies that are well furnished. In the basement are located the furnaces, trunk-rooms and other general store rooms.
Next week the management of the dormitories will be described.
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First Pan-Hellenic Game Played Yesterday.
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The Sigma Chis started the scoring in the second inning, when Coolidge, Scott, Ward and Harlan each crossed the pan. Both the Phi Psi scores were made by Campbell, who held down catch, his regular position on the freshman nine. Wilson pitched a steady game for the Sigma Chis. Delaney threw a good game but the nine errors made back of him and hits at opportune times forced the runs over the plate.
In the first game of the Panhellenic league, the Sigma Chis defeated the Phi Psis on MeCook field yesterday afternoon by the score of 8 to 2. The game as characterized by many errors on both sides. The Sigma Chis fielded the ball cleanly, a fact which was in no small measure responsible for the victory. The ability of the Sigs to hit the ball and the inability of the Phi Psis to hit safely determined the result of the game.
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A crowd of over a hundred witnessed the game and the enthusiasm at all times was high. Bowles' base running brought forth much laughter as did the coaching of Scott.
The second Pan-hellenic game is being played on McCook field this afternoon between the Phi Delts and Betas.
The lineup of yeste
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Harlan 1b. Pettit
Magill 2b. Stuckey
Coolidge 3b. Doyle
Ward ss. Bowles
Weede lf. Wheelock
Gossard ef. Spalding
Ahrens rf. Spotts.
Scott c. Campbell
Wilson p. Delaney
The entire library of Miss Mary Willing Paul has been left to the University of Pennsylvania as a memorial to her brother, Dr James Paul. The collection which was started by Miss Paul's father, Comegys Paul, consists of about 5,000 volumes and is one of the most valuable individual gifts the university library has received. The library is rich in works on history, geography and travel; in old editions of some of the early English and French authors, and especially in editions of some of the early English dramatists. There are a number of valuable old German books and large illustrated volumes or art and archaeology.
According to statistics taken in the graduating class at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, that college is in favor of the adoption of the honor system. The class is pretty well divided on the question, but 130 men voted for it as against 100 opposed to it the remainder of the class not expressing any opinion.
Harvard and Yale undergraduates are seeking a meeting on field and track with the combined teams of Oxford and Cambridge Universities the coming summer. If the meeting is brought about it is planned to have the games on the Queen's Club grounds, London, in July.
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SATURDAY A BAD DAY
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The Medal Stroke Was 99 by Jones.
The scores of the contestants in the medal tournament held Saturday afternoon by the Oread Golf Club were very much affected by the bad weather. Saturday morning a rain made the course dead and a stroke which on a good day would have netted 175 yards was reduced to 150. Dr.H. T. Jones won the tournament with a medal score of 99. The strokes taken by the other players over the eighteen holes were. Sterling 100, Patterson 102, Newton 105, Boynton 111, Briggs 111, Crawford 116, Johnson 117, Davis 120, Brodhead 122 and Raymond 127.
The University links have been lengthened recently and the bogie of 36 strokes for the nine hole course will probably soon be increased to 40. The Oread club is becoming very active this spring and will have the Topeka Golf club down within the next two weeks. The University golfists were defeated at Topeka some weeks ago and will endeavor to redeem themselves. M. W. Sterling, the captain of the local club, has received a letter from the Leavenworth County club for a series of games. One game will be played here and one in Leavenworth if the arrangements can be made. The challenging team is composed largely of army officers.
At the University of Pennsylvania the official pin is sold only on presentation of the student's matriculation card.
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FROM OTHER COLLEGES
Alpha Zeta, the honorary agricultural fraternity, initiated five men at Wisconsin.
Purdue holds annual egg shows about the first of May. Eggs are judged by the size, shape and color.
A chinese house club is being formed at Berkley, among the Chinese students of the University of California for the purpose of lessening expenses.
The largest number of freshmen in the history of Purdue turned out for baseball. When the season opened there were 131 candidates.
Cornell won the fencing title for the East from six teams. It is the first time in a long while that the title has not gone to either Annapolis or West Point.
With the announcement that Yale will row the University of Pennsylvania this year, the schedule of the Eli oarsmen has been completed. Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and the Quakers will all figure as Yale's rivals.
Fearing the establishment of compulsory chapel at the University of Pennsylvania, the students in each dormitory have appointed one of their number to serve as a "human alarm clock" each morning.
By winning its Varsity race Stanford earned the right to compete against the University of Washington for the honor of representing the Pacific coast universities in the Eastern regattas this year.
Harvard and Yale have finally agreed to row their annual rowing regatta at New London, Conn., on Friday, June 30. The Varsity eight-oared race will be rowed down stream at 3 p.m. The frshmen eights and the varsity fours will row up stream in the morning. The crew managers of both universities have been in correspondence all winter over the date and that they have agreed to row on June 30 seems to be the result of Harvard's flat refusal to consider any other date.
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