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THE NEBUASKAN-HESPEiUAN. Y. M. G. A. BUILDINGS. Enlargement of scope and growth in material equipment aro the most pro nounced evidences of progress In Amer ican Institutions of learning. To tho academic lull hero havo been added departments of law, of medicine, of en gineering and of agriculture, besides tho summer school and the system of university extension. Each year sees new buildings being erected, bettor equipment being introduced and more adequate accommodations being pro vided for tho over Increasing body of students. Nor is this spirit of en largement restricted to tho college proper. It is as well tho phenomenon of college voluntary organizations. Tho nthletic association must havo Its gymnasium; fraternities aro building chapter houses; graduate clubs and lit erary societies in most institutions have undertaken, to provide themselves with permanent homes. So, It is not surprising that the Young Men's Chris tian association the largest student organization in the world is the pio neer in meeting the growing need of an adequate building, equ.pped and maintained as a center for student activities. Princeton college was the first to erect such a building, securing a home In 1879 at a cost of ?20,000. Since then about $2,000,000 havo been expended in the erection of college association buildings. Princeton is now spending $30,000 for an addition to her original plant. Dwight hall of Yale cost $C0,000; Barnes hall of Cornell $55,000. The State University of Iowa association owns a $30,000 building, and the asso ciations of Johns Hopkins and Califor nia universities have erected buildings costing $a0,000 and $30,000, respect ively. Altogether, about thirty institu tions own association buildings. The object of such a building is to provide, through the association, a cen ter for student life. It becomes a home for men away from home; it becomes a social center, a musical headquar ters, and, of course, it is pre-eminently the religious center. The need of a building in our university is pressing. The work of the association is ham pered and restricted at every point. The social department is especially in need of accommodations. There are about fifteen hundred men upon the campus during the year. Of these three hundred are members of frater nities and about three hundred belong to literary societies. Duplicates re duce the number to about five hundred. What social life have the other one thousand men? A building will en able the association, to a large extent, to fill an empty place In the lives of these men. The University of Wisconsin is going to have an association building. Plans are not yet complete, but provisions will be made for reading rooms, li brary, games, reception parlors, Bible classes and offices. A large auditorium for lectures, concerts, etc., and a smaller lecture room for tho regular association meetings, besides a music room and a dark room for amateur photographers, will bo special features. Provision will also be made for ade quate quarters for the Young Women's association. Such a building should cost about $50,000. The experience of colleges has proved that an' association building gives prominence, stability, popularity and dignity to the Christian work. And it intensifies the work of the Christian men. It ralllss tho Christian forces and makes possible a thorough organization of them. No stronger testimony of the advan tages of a building can be adduced than a few extracts from statements of well known men. A. A. Stagg, director of athletics of the University of Chicago and for merly general secretary of tho Yale as sociation in 1889 and 1890, says: "Tho influence of Dwight hall has been tho leading factor In tho remarkable change In tho religious life of Yalo during theso last four years. Prom it as a center havo radiated all tho nu merous lines cf Christian activity that aro tho forces in this change. It has placed tho Yalo association in a posi tion of dignity that has appealed to and secured the support of our leading men in all classes." President C. K. Adams, while con nected witn Cornell college, sad: "The association building, thereiore, forms not only a very desirable, but really a" very necessary feaiuro of university life. It gives a Christian homo to young men who wish to keep up their religious Interests, and in various ways encourages and stimulates religious activity. I think that most of my col leagues would soy that no Institution or building connected with the univer sity is more constantly used; certainly no other exerts so strong and whoie some an Influence." Prolessor G. H. Emmott of Johns Hopkins: "There is an atmosphere of homelike comiort and genuine practi cal Christianity about tlio hall (Lev ering hall, the association building) which cannot fall to influence all who come within its walls." E. L. fahuey, trustee of Otterbein university: "The parlors, the gym nasium and the association hall havo become the social, physical and spirit ual centers of the college as fully as the recitation room and libraries are the intellectual centers. Since tno erec tion of the association building all tho college life and work have been up lifted, each department re-enforcing and stimulating the other. The prom inent position thus occupied by the as sociation gives it greater influence in all the college departments." G. S. PHELPS, General- Secretary U. W. Y. M. C. A. MORTON MAKES GIFTS. Secretary Barrett of the state histor ical society received a collection of very interesting material from J. Ster ling Morton last weelh There are sev eral personal letters especially interest ing. One is a letter of introduction from Lewis Cass to . Governor Burt written In 1854. Another Is a letter from John Kelley, one of Tammany's managers, to Mr. Morton written In 1880. It was written to correct some reports that New York democrats were wavering. Mr. Kelley promised the state of New York for Hancock and English by a larger majority than that given to Tllden, namely, twenty-one thousand. The state went twenty-two thousand for Garfield. There Is also a "first prize" card awarded to Ne braska's exhibition of apples at Boston in 1873. Most of the material con cerns territorial Nebraska, such as a petition to Morton, acting governor, in 1859, to organize troops to defend citi zens against tho Indians. The peti tion is dated Omaha City, July 3, 1859. Besides these there are a number of re- 111,1 LO, UUtUIUCUlO, """O ' V-I.UVO . drafts of blllb, valuable as relics of eanJp.Nebraska history. The junior promenade this year promises to be a success from every point of view. A largo attendance Is expected and no effort is being spared by tho committee to make tho affair. one of great enjoyment. Tho call of the chairman in this week's Issue of the Nebraskan-Hesperlan for advanced sale of tickets that tho auditorium may bo secured should bo heeded by all who expect to bo in attendance. With such an increase of floor space it will bo pos sible to avoid the jam that usually characterises tho junior affair. THE SERENADE. Oh, rag-time garments he had on, Ho sung a rag-time tune, And over his shoulder, dim and wan, There gleamed a rag-time moon. ... Legislative Gallery... Portrait and Landscape Photographer 129 South nth Street, Oali.hky Est..iilisi!i:i) 1871. Lincoln, Neb. Intercollegiate Bureau. 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