Agrirultural &Alm - ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University

STUDENT LIFE.
Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. hold their regular sessions at
the college every Sunday afternoon throughout the school
year. These gatherings aid materially in developing the
social and spiritual life of the members. At the beginning
of the school year these associations conduct an employment
bureau also a bureau of information at their headquarters,
and furnish Y. M. C. A. hand-books gratis to all
students. Each year a popular course of lectures free to all
students is given, under the direction of the faculty, by
distinguished speakers from various parts of the state.
Vocal and instrumental music intersperse various features
of the college work, so that a student in a career
of four years may not leave the institution without the
refining influences of this important art. Physical culture
is encouraged in every way at the gymnasium and on the
training grounds. Bowling, fencing, Indian-club swinging,
dumb-bell exercises, foot ball, basket ball, base ball, golf
and lawn tennis occupy the spare moments of the students
in a happy commingling of all classes. These social affairs,
although under the direction of a committee of the faculty,
are managed by the students who thereby acquire a training
in social life destined to be of great value to them.
Corvallis is pre-eminently a college town noted for social
clubs, literary societies, and active churches which vie with
each other in friendly interest and hospitality toward our
young people. More and more as the institution progresses,
patrons of the college move hither that they may be with
their children and at the same time enjoy the refining influences
and cultured society of a college community.
" * * Alluding to a reference which had been made,
Mr. Brown explained that he did not fully understand what
was meant by the word crank' and said in effect, 'I want
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