New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-10-06
COLUMBIA PUBLICATIONS.
MUCH PRINTERS INK MADE USE OF By
THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY
OF THE UNIVERSITY.

Since Columbia University said goodby to its
downtown home and, perched on high, became
intellectual beacon for the rest of the city the
students have been filed with sense of their duty
to posterity. Previous to 1896 the college was
sponsible for one weekly journ Al. monthly COM
pendulum of student literature and one annual. Now
II boasts a semi weekly paper, two literary month
lies" fortnightly comic paper, weekly bull
letin of the doings OF Barnard College, one serious
record of the work of the law school and three an
nuas. This is lengthy list for any body of stu
dents, and when II is noted that all but three of
the publications have sprung into being since the
removal Morningside Heights it may be i'm
agined how bracing that fact to student pride
and energy.
To say which the college publication par
ceIlence would be far delicate a task: but in
point of seniority. at least. The Spectator' has
the advantage Two years ago this was changed
from a weekly 20 a sem-weekly, published every
Tuesday and Friday throughout the college year by
a staff numbering about fourteen 1t has eight
pages excelIently well printed-if TO mention first
the fair appearance of the journal is not sighting
to the manner of its editing Such insinuation
would be unfair tho sturdy spirit of loyalty
which directs the policy OF the editors There IS III
every issue almost page Of editorial articles,
grave and gay. and last year in almcst every num-
Der there was q 'preachment' concerning the
building of College Hall and the purchase of South
Field the open space IN front of the library. for
the growing needs OF the university. The Spec
tator' evidently earnestly believes in its high mis-
sion TO arouse student feeling important sub
jects. When there no lengthy leaders on these
TOPICS their place filed by short paragraphs
reading. I'VE do not need South Field the less, but
College Hall the more There lots OF things
we should like have. but reed South Field
or 1T will be easier get South Field than
five years hence. Do you know a Rockefeller" If
keeping everlastingly at it brings success, as IL
generally does The Spectator is useful ally in
any undertaking. Indeed the college paper has an
important place in the life of such an institution as
Columbia, and perhaps is even more needed there
than in older universities like Harvard and Yale.
There is no other such medium for creating sound
college spirit, and when the editors we'll deep
purpose with airy badinage there is no limiting its
influence.
The news columns Of The Spectator are filed
with accounts of doings of the athletic teams.
renors of the various important lectures of the
son. frequent lists of additions to the library
news Of other colleges, and all the thousand and
one items OF interest, to undergraduates. The
makeup of the paper is attractive, and when
half tone illustrations used they are good ones
THE Literary Monthly" founded in 1893. is de
voted chiefly to stories. verse essays editorials
and book reviews; the board of editors includes
a representative of Barnard. This magazine is in
tended to show the best and most serious literary
work Of the university. In II Shelley and Balzac
and the like discussed the historical novel
and so forth analysed. It's poems are many. The
same is true in the of The Morningside,"
another monthly magazine. but of a lighter char
ecter The Literary Monthly" would not publish
such dtties
a certain queer language called Latin
Was used by the ancients to chat in.
They used it to think in.
To eat and to drink in.
And even to go on bat in
1.-The Morningsde" affects ponies" of this de-
scription and they sometimes illustrated in
a manner consistent with their literary inspiration,
THE Morningside' Is often amusing, and, like other
Columbia publications is good TO look upon.
The Columbia Jester founded recently
that It Is nothing but infant However II is q
promising and growing infant, which the students
seem quite ready to cherish. 1t has already advo-
Gated not only the purchase of South Field for the
university but that of the rapid transit tunnel to
be used as a bowling alley for the students and
has in other ways shown itself broadminded and
progressive Only three numbers of THE jester
have so far appeared for it began its career late
last season. L expects be much to the fore this
year.