Sludenl Life al .Pennsylvania
in his everyday work and in his life, is regulated and gov
erned, to a great extent, by the department in which he is
located; for each department is in itself an institution with
its own customs and habits.
The students either find homes in the "dorms," at fra
ternity hOuses, or in private families near at hand, while
those residing in the city live at their homes. Dormitory
life is possibly the most typical of the university. This
large building is divided into small houses, each bearing a
name, and the student who resides in them finds a pleasant
home in the midst of splendid men. The students are
orderly and neat, and the rooms well cared for. A cheaper
and more modest mode of living is to be found in private
houses. These are to be found everywhere near the univer
sity and one can obtain, at a very reasonable price, a pleas
ant room and be in the midst of fellow students, who with
him form one element of university life.
The students find boarding at the University Dining
Hall, at the different student restaurants, or at private
boarding houses. Board is reasonable and of good quality
and the feeling of college spirit and union of the men of dif
ferent departments is fostered here, where for a small part
of each clay men front all schools meet to discuss common
interests. Among 2500 students one finds all degrees of
student life, from the richest resident of the "dorms" or
"frats" to the married Freshmen who delivers papers in the
early morning. And all are Pennsylvania men and condi
tion of life stands in the way of no student who proves him
self a worker and a true man. Just as there are 2500 stu
dents so there are as many ways of pleasure-taking among
them. Of these none, perhaps, is more typical of the stu
dent's life than the last of the week trip upward—to a cheap
seat at a theatre. Among the features of university lile
which are distinctively Pennsylvanian are those of College
chapel, "Pomp," the bowl fight, the "club," the corner rush