The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1892-11-22
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THE ATHLETIC COLLEGE aIRL
lhe Enjoys an kinds Of sport fron Root.
ball TO Boat Rowing.


The Enjoys an Kinds OF sport from root
ball TO Boat Rowing.
An the usual field sports popular
at mems colleges are also popular
among the girl students Several of
the women's colleges have their
crews, and no one can deny that the
young women are good manipulators
of the oar. Float day at Wellesley
Is gala day, and crowds of enthusi-
astic spectators are on hand to wit
ness the regatta. In one of the state
universities of the west there Is q
cadet company among the young
women students, who are under the
same instruction and are subjected
TO the same regulations as the reg
nlar cadets They are drilled by the
government officer detailed at the
military department, and are reg
ularly reviewed by the governor and
staff.
The high compliments they have
received from the state executive
body and the attention they have at
tracted IN the community eeDa1allv.
to say nothing Of the admiration ex-
cited, must be very gratifying to the
fair soldiers. They have all been
properly disciplined and when occa-
sion demands VIII be ready to serve
their country IN time Of need. There
are numerous football teams and
baseball mines managed and equipped
by the women students in different
parts of the country, and their inter
collegiate matches show that thew
are progressing rapidly in their race
for muscle.
If a girl has not all the latest inn
provements at hand for her athletic
sports she makes the most of what
she has, particularly if she is a Vas
sar girl. and has good time at any
rate. Who but a yassar girl would
ever have thought of using a barrel
stave for q coasterl This idea origi-
mated ten or twelve years ago. and
the practice has been kept up re-
hgiously ever since. Now of course
this device is preferred to the con-
ventional sled, and when the snow
has a hard, slippery crust the fair
coaster Skins down one of those long
Poughkeepsie hills so fast that Il
fairly takes her breath awaS To
bogganing cannot compare with this
mprovised coasting as far as fun
goes. Let any one who does not be-
heye there is any fun in it just try It
once.
One class in prominent New Eng
land college, the name of which I
have promised not to diyulge. had
quite as much fun In coastinp as
their Vassar sisters, although thew
used AN entirely different device. In
place of the barrel slaves, which ara
not always so easy to obtain after
all, the New England collegians used
the homely dustpans The sly crea-
lures only coasted during the even
ings, after gymnasium hours. when
they would slip into their rooms. con-
ceal the dustpans under their ulsters.
slip out again to their fayorite Dlace
of resort and slide away to their
hearts content Sometimes all the
dustpans would be tied together and
a line of girls would start from the
top of the hill and go whizzing down
together. 1t wasn't so easy at first
to slide all the way down without
losing control over the dustpan. but
this difficult feat is soon accom-
plished, and grace and dexteritv
come with practice. The homelv
household implement in the hands Of
the frolicking girl was converted
into an article of supreme delight.
The authorities frowned upon the
practice as establishing an undesira-
bic precedent, besides being updieni-
fed and furnishing the paragrapher
with material for a new joke ON tho
college girl. After suffering the an
noyance of time wasted by the senior
IN her housework, owing to the I'M
convenience of using dustpans whose
divorced handles were peacefully
slumbering dozen rods away in the
snow, the faculty put its foot down
and declared that the practice must
be discontinued or that the seniors
must furnish their own materials.-
Chicago Herald.