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SOCIETIES OF STUDENTS.

LITERARY SOCIETIES.

There are two Literary Societies of long standing, the Jefferson Society
and the Washington Society, connected with the University. They
meet weekly in their respective halls for the purpose of cultivating debate
and composition, and hold public exhibitions at intervals during the session,
and at its close. The two Societies jointly maintain the University Magazine,
and annually invite some distinguished orator to deliver an address
before them in the Public Hall at the close of the session. In each Society
medals are given—one to the best debater, another to the best orator; and
a third medal is awarded for the best original contribution to the University
Magazine by a member of either Society.

TEMPERANCE UNION.

This association does good service in guarding students against dissipation,
promotes literary culture by weekly meetings for debate, and offers valuable
prizes to its best debaters and orators.

MEDALISTS OF 1887—1888.

           

Jefferson Society:		Washington Society:
Orator,	John G. Scott.	Orator,	Francis F. Causey.
Debater,	Joseph L. Kelley.	Debater,	L. M. G. Baker.
University Magazine:		Temperance Union:
Medalist,	Ernest M. Stires.	Orator,	Francis F. Causey.
		Debater,	L. M. G. Baker.

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

This society seeks to guard new students from evil influences, and furnishes
opportunities for Christian work in the University and its neighborhood. It
is the oldest of the College Associations, having been established in 1858,
and has been in active operation ever since. It conducts several Sunday
schools in the neighborhood of the University, coöperates with the Chaplain
in the maintenance of the Religious Services, secures periodical Public Lectures
and Sermons, and directs the Students' Reading Room.

STUDENTS' READING-ROOM.

This is convenient of access, comfortably arranged and furnished, and
supplied with a large selection of the best periodical literature. It is open
to all members of the University upon the payment of an annual fee of $4
to meet its current expenses. In their hours of recreation the students are
thus enabled to make themselves acquainted with the best expressions of current
thought on various questions of letters and science which arise in their
University work.