The San Francisco call., 1908-08-23

store OF education" because there one
can get anything one wants in the way
Of education and at any time in the
year. For by the quarter system the
year is divided into four quarters OF
IL weeks each. with vacation Of one
week between terms. The month OF
September is the only time that reg
ular work Is not In progress. The ma
jority of students attend college for
three terms and rest the fourth, but 1t
is possible to graduate in three years
by working all four quarters. The
great advantage OF this system to en-
gineers and others who are anxious to
get to work is apparent.
Socially the college has some life OF
it's own. and there is considerable COL
lege spirit in view OF the fact that the
college is swallowed up in a great city
There are four dormitories for girls
and the same number for men, on the
campus. and the mems fraternity houses
are In neighboring blocks. No sororities
are allowed at Chicago, and there Is
little social life for the girls who do
not live in the dormitorteS. While
many social affairs which undergrad
yates in other colleges enjoy are lack
ing here, the Chicago student derives
many advantages from being In the
city. University Of Chicago people go
to the theater as much or more than
the Berkeley student and. strange TO
allowed TO go in at night In parties
of two or three unchaperoned, when
girls from Berkeley would not think OF
going to San Francisco. an equal dis
tance. without an escort or a chaperon-
Latch Keys for Girls
Much liberty is given to the girls.
They manage their own dormitories
and are only required to ask the matron
for a key If they go out at night A
story is told of a very pretty girl who
had been in college for years without
doing much but society. (For no one
is ever fiunked out at Chicago. One
may go to college for years and be no
nearer graduating than on matricula-
tion 1day.) This girl lived in DOR
mitory and so many admiring students
wished to take her to the theater that
it became most troublesome to ask for
the key so often. So one night after
the matron had demonstrated the key
was left at locksmiths while the two
enjoyed the play, and after that the
pretty girl was on the car, theater
bound, every night But she made the
mistake of not asking for house key
often enough and one night the matron,
by watching. found her using the
forged key. What happened2 Very lit
tie. because there is no paternalism at
Chicago. The key was confscated, and
the girl told the story as a good joke
The men at Chicago university have
an unusual institution in the Reynolds
club. The beautiful building which
stands at one corner of the quadrangle
was built by the Reynolds family IN
the clubrooms are billiard and card
tables and the most comfortable places
for q social smoke. and. best OF all. any
man in the university is eligible for
membership. Adjoining is the COM
mons, the dining room for the men
students. and it is the most beautiful
!, room I have ever seen. Around the
walls is frieze composed Of the
coats of arms of all the colleges in
the United States. and at one end Of
the room are life sized portraits OF
John .. Rockefeller President Harper
and President JudsOn. The light
streams in from high gothic windows
upon the dull oak tables set with doilies
and heavy silver, and one who has seen
the discomfort of the Stanford man
eating at the inn could but be envious
of such luxury as this
The University Of Chicago Is attract
ing many graduate students, and no
wonder. for asiGs S=Ssl work it offers
many advantages to the person who
has fallen out of sympathy with under-
graduate life For President Harper's
large ideas are still felt about the place
and every building stands as a mOnu-
ment to the man who could so interest
persons visiting the university that
when they left their sole desire was to
donate something substantial toward
its support
We have just reason to be proud OF
our western universities for the work
of the students, and for the splendid
college spirit and the harmonious social
conditions. Our college men and
women meet on a more dignifed yet
more natural footing than in the m-d-
die west colleges. They are moro
formal on informal occasions here in
the west. and less formal on formal
ones. The time may come when our
men will invariably wear their TOP
hats to college dances, and keep their
white kid gloves on all evening. but
doubt it, as much as I doubt If they
will ever call every girl in college by
her frat name, For situation no coll
lege can surpass Stanford university
with it's beautiful hills, nor the Uni
versity of California with it's unrivaled
view Of the bay. No state offers such
a wide field of endoavor for its gradn-
ates as does California, with its variec
, and fast developing resources. and no
state is sending out from its colleges
a more broad minded. capable and en-
Of