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Show ClubsTHE WOMAN S ORGANIZATION comprises the women students of the University. It corresponds to Tammany Hall in political influence and due to the shrewd guidance of the Big Medicine Woman, has attained memorable notoriety for novel methods of tagging, selling- candy, getting to the Prom, etc. Such vital questions as, "Are arm-shields a protection or a hindrance?" are debated at the meetings which are called at the discretion of the Little Mother.URBANA AND AGRONOMIA DEBATING SOCIETIES comprise the debaters. There are triangular, quadrangular and rhomboidular debates held annually "with Pete Kasius representing the altitude and Jim "White the square on the hypotenuse. At the annual banquet, in the spring, the clash of wits is marvelous; here are cracked all the jokes that Coach Hunt has censored in the year's regular speeches.THE UNIVERSITY DRAMATIC CLUB was organized in 1897 to celebrate Miss Maud May Bab-cock's eighteenth birthday. Those "who say that she was twenty years old at that time are falsifiers and liars. Nearly every year the club presents two plays-one by Shakespeare and one by Pinero or Thomas. These productions are preceded by try-outs, the function of which is to prove conclusively that the cast that Miss Babcock has already selected is infinitely superior to those willing to try out for parts.THE 'VARSITY CLUB is striving to maintain high and clean athletics. It leads a struggling existence.THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY comprises all of the musical activities of the University. St. Cecelia and St. Thomas (Giles) are the patron saints. Every year the students elect a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity for manager; Chi Omega usually lands the secretary job.THE UNIVERSITY BACH SOCIETY is extremely artistic, and musical. They have a wonderful Bach cantata that they propose producing about the time the University issues the new catalog. It (the cantata) has already been postponed four times.THE OPEN FORUM meets as often as they can get four members together. They are the Sceptics; they look at everything with an open (and blank) mind. They hold informal meetings in the Chronicle office whenever Herb Schiller begins on original sin. Miss Van Cott is very fond of them.THE ENGINEERING SOCIETY holds meetings at frequent intervals "for the purpose of discussing subjects related to engineering." Their last meeting "was held at the Heidleberg.THE BARRISTERS CLUB has some great jurists on its roll but nobody knows it. They resent it when Freshmen confuse their name with saloon keepers. They say that barrister means one on the bar (or in front of it) never behind it.THE MEDICAL SOCIETY-Tuts members of this august body remove lungs from poor little guinea pigs and commit Belgian hare atrocities. This society is very exclusive and gruesome. No one knows when or where it meets.THE FRENCH CIRCLE, THE GERMAN CIRCLE and THE LATIN CIRCLE serve refreshments to induce people to come to meetings. The Latin Circle used to be called the "Collegium Latinum" but they changed the name because a prominent, member of the faculty thought that it was the technical name for Italian cabbage.THE F. F. F. are the kindergardners. Their name is a secret. The person "who suggested that it meant Free From Fussers "was unnecessarily malicious and rude.THE HOUSEHOLD ARTS CLUB study the making of the home and the rearing of children. Most of them later become old maids and school teachers.THE BEEHIVE CLUB is a great honor for Seniors. It gets its picture in the Utonian free. Everybody but the student body president may qualify for membership.THE RIFLE CLUB-what, never heard of it? "Why, the catalog has been announcing it for years. It meets at the Mission and charges fifty cents a shot or two and a half for a full load.#£>acreo to tise memory of Commercial ClufoPage two hundred fifty-eight |