The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-13
WEDDING GIFTS A SPECIALITY.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEWS.
a Debate on Cuba-The intercollegiate Debat,
New DOrmItorIes-A Southern Club.

a Debate on C~uba-The intercollegiate Debate
New DOrmitorIes-A Southern Club.
On March 3 and 10 Prof. Adolphe Cohn Of
Columbia is to debate with Louis Marie Au'
guste Yoiseaux. an instructor in the French de.
partmont. on tho Cuban question. On March
8 Prof. Cohn will speak in favor of Spain's atti
tude. On the following Thursday Mr.. Yoi.
seaux will plead the cause ofthe Cubans. The
discourses will be entirely in French. Prof.
Cohn is widely known for his insight into Euro.
pean political and diplomatic relations. Mr.. Yoi-
seaux has been an ardent supporter of the Gu.
ban cause for years.
The first Intercollegiate debate between the
East and the West, to take place in this city
on March 25 between Columbia and tho Uni
versity of Chicago. is 'arousing a large amount
OF interest in debating than has ever before been
manifest at Columbia. Already the number
Of candidates for tho team has boon sifted
down from thirty to six. The question to BIO
discussed is: Resolved. That tho policy of
increasing the nsvy.is wise and should be con-
tinued." Chicago has already chosen its side,
but until the tinal:trisls are over its selection
The students still trying for the team of three
are Oscar w: Erhom. James N. Pr4skauer. q.
Ing. and Charles f.. Wheaton. On next Satur-
for positions. Hammond odell, 80, and Arthur
M. Day of the department of political economy,
and Ralph Curtis Ringwalt Of the rhetoric do
partment will DO the judges.
The debate Will probably serve as the opening
function for the new gymnasium. II. however.
that place is not finished Carnegie Lyceum will
be used.
For the first time since It's early days in Bar.
clay street Columbia University Is to have dor
mitories in connection with ITS other depart
are not officially Joined with the university
proper, but 1t Is understood that the faculty
will exercise supervision over the student life
In the new home. The place is situated in
ings arranged In suites of two. three, four, and
i've rooms. It:was erected ss d private bust
ness enterprise.
There Is q general feeling among the stu
Germs upon the college life will hasten the ac-
ton of the trustees in university dormitories.
There 10 a scheme for college dormitories I'M
der consideration by the authorities at present.
but nothing definite can BIO learned about tho
project,
The first sectional organization ever formed
at Coluinbia Is the Southern Club. Over sew
enty men came together recently and decided
the interests OF Columbia in the South and to
promote social relations with the cOllegians
who live. south OF Mason and Dixon's line. At
the first election Of officers the result was as
Atlanta; Vice.President, Robert Huger Elliott
of louisiana; Secretary, William Bryant Jones
OF Georgia; Treasurer temporary, bernard
NJ. J.. Ernst, Alabama.
Every state in the South is represented in
Southerners In the university. The society has
rooms at S67 Western Boulevard.
The President of the Harvard Southern Club
has extended an invitation to the Columbia
Southern Club TO send a representative to the
annual dinner of tho Cambridge men. Joseph
Meyer Proskauer OF Alabama will doubtless
Columbia.