1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

144 THE SCROLL.captain, 2 on basketball team, 6 wearers of the 'C ; managersmusical association and glee club and 4 members; Oraclestaff, Record staff, and 2 on weekly; an officer and 2 committeemenY. M. C. A.; a place on junior exhibition and 3places on freshman exhibition.One could hardly ask for a more satisfactory insight intothe life and workings of a university than is to be had fromOld McGill; '04. A careful perusal of this book will give thereader unacquainted with McGill a very complete picture ofthe institution. The student life is not yet the highly organizedsystem we know in the colleges in the United States,but McGill has made vast strides in recent years away fromthe old Scottish idea of a university—where the universitylectured to the student and as for the remainder left him toshift for himself. The one exception to the general merit ofthe book, the only feature of the college life not clear to thereader, is the basis on which women attend the university.They are styled 'Donaldas,' have separate class organizations,their own societies, and are segregated into Royal VictoriaCollege; but whether they are full-fledged co-eds isnot clear from the book. Old McGill has a number of excellentfeatures, some of them peculiar to itself. The editorialgreeting is a great improvement on the ordinary perfunctoryapology; in the nature of a preface, it contains a great dealof sound advice to the students, and the things said are wellworth saying. Following the faculty lists appear shortsketches of professors acquired during the year; a directoryof alumni associations is given, and a list of the editors-inchiefand business managers of the seven volumes of OldMcGill. The featured article of this year's book is a voluminousaccount of 'The Rise and Progress of the MedicalFaculty.' The medical school was the foundation stone ofthe university, and evidently is yet its most important department,470 of the 1,389 students being in attendancethere. By far the most interesting pages to the outsider arethose occupied by a brief article by the principal on 'StudentInterests.' He therein discusses the university's relationswith its students frankly and entertainingly, and we learnfrom him a great deal about McGill. The feeling that theuniversity cannot do too much for its students is graduallysupplanting the old notion of the Scottish educators, andMcGill's student life is being rapidly developed. In thecourse of his remarks he refers to the entrance of Greek