The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-16
BARNARD COLLEGES CLUBS.
An Approaching Meeting with the Gradual
Club OF Columbia.

nm Approaching meettnH Win the GRADUATE
Club OF Columbia.
At the third annual convention of the FEEDER
alton of Graduate Clubs, which was held at Has.
kell Hall. Chicago University, last month. Bar.
nard College was represented by Miss Mabel
Hurd Of Syracuse, \. Y. Miss Hurd holds the
degree OF b. L. from Smith College, and is al.
ready in her second years work for the degree
of Phi. d. at Columbia. The convention held two
sessions each day, at which papers were present
ed and followed by an open discussion. Reports
from various delegates were read, and Ques-
tions OF policy in regard to graduate work were
brought up for consideration. Among the papers
OF most general interest were those on Fellow
ships" on the "Dcsirability of Uniform Require
ments for the Phi. ID. Degree" and on the "Rela-
ton of Philosophy to Other Graduate Studies"
On the first evening the delegates were enter.
tanned at q reception by the Graduate Club of the
university, and on the day following a luncheon
was given to the convention by President
Harper. Delegates representing all sections of
the country and from twenty different colleges
attended the convention. Before the close of
the session a resolution was adopted to the eff
feet that uniycrsities requiring the printing of
atheists for the Phi. D.. degree should bear the
full expense rather than Oblige the candidate TO
defray the cost OF printing.
Several years ago the students at Barnard
courses at the university organized a club.
whose aim was 10 bring the different graduate
students. all strangers to each other. into more
friendly relations and to keep them in closer
touch with the intellectual life Of the university.
With this end in view. when the membership Of
the club reached fifty, an attempt was made to
cooperate with the members of the Graduate
Club Mt Columbia, SO that the work of the TWO
organizations should be more or less homo
geneous. and a joint social meeting was held
last wear. But experience proved that uaiver-
sity students were. as q rule. pretty well loaded
down with work. and that very little leisure
was available for any social demands other than
what living in a city entailed. As time went on
1t became more ana more apparent that the work
of the club would be much more profitable to all
the members If the social object were eliminated
altogether. and the whole energy Of the club
directed TO one or two meetings during the year
at which topics of special interest to graduate
students. could be presented and discussed.
with this new purpose the clubs name
was changed recently and a Joint meet
has now been arranged. This meeting is
library building. All the members of the fac
uity giving graduate courses are invited to at
tend. Reports from the delegates to the annual
convention of the Federation of Graduate Clubs,
recently held in Chicago. will be presented, and
in addition to this routine businesJ short ad.
dresses will be made. The two subjects for dis.
cussion will be: The Seminary, Its Purposes
and Advantages" by Prof. William Sloan and
Prof. Edwin Seligman OF the faculty of politi.
cal science, and "Fellowships." by Miss Emily
James. Smith. Dean Of Barnard College, and
Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, Dean OF the
faculty of philosophy.