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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 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 daily 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
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.
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