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STUDENT ACTIVITIES.

THE VIRGINIA UNION.

The Virginia Union was organized for the general purpose of directing
and coördinating various phases of student activity. It has set for itself
the three-fold function of initiating, promoting, and supervising movements
that merit student attention and deserve student patronage. Its activities
include intercollegiate debating, oratorical contests, and through the
coöperation of the faculty Committee on Public Celebrations, the control
of miscellaneous lectures, concerts, and other entertainments. The union
gives at least one public program each term and holds informal entertainments
at frequent intervals. Membership is extended to students, faculty
and alumni of the University, on payment of an annual fee of two dollars.
All business is conducted through an executive board composed of both
student and faculty members, elected annually.

LITERARY SOCIETIES.

Connected with the University are two literary societies of long standing—the
Jefferson Society and the Washington Society. At weekly meetings
in their respective halls they hold debates and practice extemporaneous
and other forms of public speaking. Each society annually offers gold medals
for excellence in debating and oratory, and each organization contests for
intersociety prizes.

WOMAN'S SELF-GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION.

The Association includes all women students of the University of Virginia,
and exists to bring about a greater unity and mutual helpfulness
among the women of the University, and to promote and maintain the
highest standards of University life.

PUBLICATIONS.

The University of Virginia Magazine, designed to encourage literary
work among the students, is published by the students with the advisory
assistance of the Linden Kent Memorial School of English Literature, and
appears at monthly intervals, eight times during the session. As a stimulus
to literary activity, the Magazine offers every year three medals: One for
the best poem, one for the best short story, and one for the best essay, of
student authorship, appearing in one of the numbers of the publication.
The awards are made by alumni committees, one committee for each of the
three medals.

College Topics is a semi-weekly newspaper published by the students
and devoted to the interests of the University at large.

Corks and Curls is the University annual, its aim being to present some
record of the scholastic, religious, athletic and social activities of the college
year. Its publication is in the hands of a chartered corporation formed by
the fraternities and literary societies of the University.

The Virginia Law Review is a journal devoted to the discussion of
general questions of American jurisprudence, published monthly from October
to May, inclusive, by the students of the Law Department.

The Virginia Reel is an illustrated magazine of humor, published by the
students ten times a year.

The University of Virginia Journal of Engineering is published by the
students of the Department of Engineering ten times a year.