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Show CO-EDUCATION BENEFITS. Prof. Cory Talks on Student Life at Columbia, Prof. George Q. Cory gave a short talk on "Student Life at Columbia" during chapel hour at the University of Utah yesterday morning. He said: "New York Is a commercial city, and the stock gambling nnd race-hore betting bet-ting spirit of the people has greatly Impressed Itself upon the undergraduate under-graduate students. 76 per cerit of whom come from New York city. Many of theso students cultivate culture for the name rather than the substance. They choose the easier branches, and to them school life is not serious, as It ls In the Westerner. 1 "In the graduate courses conditions are very much improved and the general gen-eral atmosphere ls purer and more Invigorating. In-vigorating. I attribute this g reatly to the fact that women of the highest type are allowed to enter this school. Coeducation, Co-education, here at least, has proven a benefit. Another change which Improves the graduate school Is the outside element ele-ment which Is In the majority here. "Athletics are very strong at Columbia. Colum-bia. Mercantile men support and encourage en-courage tho sport by largo donations. A. single game brings out from 50,000 to C0.000 people, and these more than repay the merchants by their purchases." |