Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-19
VACATION PROBLEM.

VACATION PROBLEM
have in the past few days received
a regular deluge of letters from the
different boys and the one question that
Is in their minds just now Is as how
best to spend the holidays. Some IRE
figuring on returning home but the
great majority of them will remain in,
the east and study or go visiting, OF
course the boys in the larger cities have
the advantage ut this time of the year,
especially if they decide not to grind
during the vacation period Take here
In Philadelphia for instance. There
are in all about 90 students attending
the various institutions There are Il
at the University of pennsylvania
scattered throughout all OF it's various
departments and II at Jeffedson Mel
ical college. Two years ago the boys
got together and organized a Utah Col
lege Mems club which meets once Il
year and the boys go out for Il ''iound
UP, as they choose to call it, though
the local boys who are acquainted with
the Utah fellows who comprise the
club, have termed it the wild and
Woolly Buttermilkers," due to the fact,
| presume, that the Utah boys are
abstainers from the amber fluid and
thus Criminals Of the first water" iE
the eastern standard We're to be adopt
cd. But the sons of Utah get together
during the holidays and they manage
to keep out the honesickness that
would otherwise possess them. Then,
too, there is always SO much to do aud
see during the holidays in a great city
No. the Philadelphia, New York or
Chicago students never suffer very
much, But think of those poor souls up
ut Ithaca or at New Haven or out ut
Ann Arbor. OF course they can get to
y large city by Il few hours ride but
then in this cold weather walking il
mighty hard and because of the late
home have been pared down consider
ably.
UrAHNs AT PENsY.
or the larger universities Pcnnsyl-
Nani;t bonsts of having the largest en-
rollment of Utah students. and there
is hardly u department OF that great
university that has not ut least one
Utah man. In the law department are
Dale H. P;lrke and Daniel Alexander
seniors. both of salt Lake; VIII Reed
er OF Ogden is a junior and Wade NJ
Johnson of Ogden is first year man.
Par and Alexander are 3. a. from
the U. Of u. Reedcr halls from the
Weber Stake academy and Johnson is
b. "A. from Princeton. Parkc and Alex
audcr have both been members OF two
Pennsylvania debating teams and
Hl'dfkee won the Frazer debate prize last
season. He is also a member of The
Wilson Law club, oii-.the board OF edi-
tors Of the Law Journal and a mem
Der of the Delta Chi fraternity. Alex
:ander is a member of the board Of
editors of the class year book Reeder'
Is "A member of the Miller Law club
and has taken an active part in class
politics. johnson belongs to the Delta
Chi and is a member of the Wilson
Law club.
In the medical school are Walter L.
Whalon of ogden. senior. In the
junior class Is Julian Hardy of Salt
Lake. In the sophomore class is Rob-
ert Alexander of Salt Lake and the
freshman class claims Walter Scott
Heating of Salt Lake.
Whalen is moderator of the William
Pepper Medical society and has been a
very active man in all class affairs.
Alexander Is a frat pledged man and
belongs to several of the medical So
cieties.
In the dental school are Earl, T..
Greenwell OF Ogden and William s.