Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-21

The discipline was severe also. Some
crymes were punished corporallie, others
by pecunal mulct. and grosser crymes
by extrusion." The regulations included
two hours recreation every afternoon,
and the dean appointed proctors to look
after students who might play truant
from the foot ball fields. the golf links or
the bowling green. Billiard rooms were
also fitted up for the use of the students.
There is a billiard room in Marischal
College. now attached to a suite of club
rooms in the basement of Mitchell Hall,
under the supervision of the University
Union" That organization is the center
of social life and the management of col
lege sports here as in other Scottish uni
versities. The union maintains reading
room; it is the headquarters of the debat-
ing societies. il looks after all athletic
contests. dances and other social and
ceremonial functions among the students
who are scattered throughout the city in
boarding houses and have no other place
OF assembly.
There are no fraternities. dining clubs
o" similar organizations in the Scottish
universities TO supply the place of the
college dormitories and refrectorleS at
Cambridge and oxford and those on the
continent. But nevertheless. there is a
good deal of college spirit and many more
Sofidl SdtHtIIuSS tIldll one SApSIl
under the circumstances.
Scant Social Activity.
There is very little social activity in
Scotland anywhere compared with Eng
land and the United States. The Scotch
are not a frivolous people. as everybody
knows Balls are very infrequent, and
teas are as dull as a theological inquisi-
ton The students at the University of
Aberdeen are mostly sons of poor people.
The Institution is comparatively local in
its influence and usefulness. 1t may be COM
pared i'm this respect to our state universe
ties in the west. The nobility and the
rich commnners send their sons TO OK
ford or Cambridge instead of To Aber-
deem or st. Andrews. The students are
not wasting their small incomes on bou-
quets or banquets. Education is a very
serious matter with them. because their
parents at home are scrimping them
selves to pay the tuition fees. Therefore
whatever social life there is is managed
upon simple and economical scale.
Carnegie Again Pays the Fees.
Mr.. Carnegie has made it possible for
thousands of young men in Scotland to
get a university education by placing
in the hands of a board of trustees the
sum of $-v,OO0.O0O. the interest upon which
is applied to the payment of the fees of
worthy students who cannot afford the
expenditure. He will not pay matricula-
ton fees nor board bills; he will not fur
nish them books or clothing, but after a
student is once established in the uni
versity and has shown himself worthy of
assistance this assistance is offered him
as reward rather than as an induce
ment. Not less than $4OOOOO of Mr. Car
negles money was applied to such pur-
pose last year.
The University of Aberdeen like the
other three universities of Scotland. is an
co-educational institution, there being 1S4
women students here, most of whom are
educating themselves to become teachers
and a few TO become physicians. Women
physicians quite popular IN Scotland.
The following table shows the number