Johns Hopkins University - Hullabaloo Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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relation with the more active elements of the circle. The Annual Ladies' Reception is also a popular feature. On the Club nights, on which a supper is served at a moderate Hxed price, the attendance is much smaller, but the conversation is more intimate and the feeling of a common life is distinctly fostered. The material equipment of the club is modest, and the pressure for space, on Field nights especi- ally, has given urgency to the demand for more commodious quarters, but the present rooms are' cosy and attractive and contain all the usual appurtenances of club life. The liberality of a late member of the club and his representatives has adorned the walls of the house with choice specimens of an unrivalled collection of etchings and engravings, and similar loans from others have enhanced the quiet charm of the surroundings. No attempt has been made to form a library, beyond a small collection of works of reference, but a sub- scription to the New York Mercantile Library puts within the reach of the members the best current literature in English, and by an arrange- ment with foreign booksellers the most important new works in French and German are laid on thetables for inspection and a fair proportion bought for the use of the members. Witli periodicals, American, English, French, German, in all departments of pure litera- ture and the fine arts, the reading-room is supplied as few club libraries in the World are supplied. In these various ways the club has worked towards the fulfilment of its purpose with a fair measure of success. It has no motto, no watchword. It is not set to solve important questions of state, it is not set to manufacture jollityg but in the atmosphere of ease and quiet which reigns in the University Club, grave lives are made brighter, and gay lives are not made less gay by grave suggestions. The new University Club is far better and more comfortable than the old johns Hopkins Club, but members are required to be over twenty-five years of age, so that the younger academic element is practically shut out. The annual dues of the new University Club are 330, six times those of the old Hopkins Club, which served its modest social purpose economically and well in those early days of our academic life. Those days can never be lived again. Times have changed and men have changed with them. After all, the old Kneipe was never quite adequate to student social needs in this University. The old club never embraced the whole student body, and it cost more than some men could afford. There is still room in connection with the johns Hopkins University for the development of student societies 18

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bachelor rooms. I was one of the last presidents,and had a peculiar satisfaction in rescuing a lbw things from the auction-sale of club property and in seeing that our debts were all paid. The new University Club, at IOOS North Charles Street, is the historic successor of the old Kneipe on Garden Street. Dr. Edward M. Hartwell, a president of the johns llopkins Club, was one of the most active organizers of the new institution, of which he became the Hrst secretary. The older and younger members of the lfniversity, together with professional men, graduates of various colleges, and other residents of Baltimore in close sympathy with the University spirit, nowjoined forces for the establishment ofa good club. Pro- fessor B. L. Gildersleeve, its first and only president, has lately written a brief sketch of the University Club for Benzon's Black Book, a History of the Clubs of London, Baltimore and Washington. He says: The University Club of Baltimore was set on foot for the furtherance of social relations and intellectual interchange among those members of the community who are in sympathy with university views and university methods. The membership, it is true, is not restricted to the graduates of universities and colleges, for it was thought that such a restriction would exclude too many men of high intelligence and broad culture who could not meet the formal requirement ofa diploma, but care was taken to perpetuate the university idea, by giving the preponder- ance in the management to university and college graduates. The growth of the club, which was first projected in the early summer of 1887, and which held its first regular meeting in its own house on Thanksgiving Day of the same year, shows that the plan and the methods meet the wants of an important class, for, under the steady pressure of applications for membership, the limit has been enlarged from ISO to 300, and, which is still more important, the privileges of the club are better and better appreciated and the attendance is steadily increasing. To promote the social life of the club, the Friday nights from October I to july l are specially set apart, the second Friday night of each month being known as Field night, the others as Club nights. On the Field nights some topic of general interest, literary, scientific, or'social, is presented in an informal way, now by members of the club, now by specially invited guests, and the entertainment is followed by a simple collation provided at the expense of the club. These meetings have been largely attended, and many of the members who have little or no turn for club life are thus brought into IT

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like the Oxford Union, tl1e Student Associations of lidinburgh and Paris, and the Student Unions of German universities. The development of class spirit among undergraduate students has been especially noticeable since the year 1889, when the first Class Book was published. In tl1e successive volumes of this valuable series of student publications, the whole history of recent social development may be clearly traced. The class spirit is seen not only in more definite organization, but in the athletic games, annual banquets, monthly suppers, class yells, class alumni organizations, class reunions, etc. It is 'impossible to describe, in this connection, the great number of local organizations which have sprung up in recent years, such as glee clubs, banjo clubs, tramp clubs, fencing clubs, tennis clubs, the teams for foot-ball, base-ball, lacrosse, etc. The Gymnasium and tl1e Athletic Association, with its representation of classes and alumni, together with the athletic grounds at Clifton, have done m11ch to promote vigorous life and real student spirit among the young men of johns Hopkins University. It is a pleasant sight to see them in their flannel suits and sweaters driving through Charles Street in great omnibuses with six horses and giving the Hopkins cheer as they pass the University Club. The johns Hopkins Alumni Association, organized in 1887, is beginning to show an enthusiasm for their Alma Mater, in annual banquets on the 22d of February, our Founder's Day. Branch alumni associations have already been formed in New York City, Washington, Wisconsin, and California. Pleasant places for tl1e social reunion of alumni are now found in the Fraternity houses, which are likely to prove more and more a bond of union in the social life of the Johns Hopkins University. Concerning all these various living institutions, behold it is written inthe Class Book of 1892. S7 Z fd PFS ,aerial of x t Xl Egg' '