The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-14
AT BRYN MAWR.
GARD STUDY AND HIGH JINKS AT
a QUAKER COLLEGE.

chase Across Lots After the "Hares."
lively Scenes in the Gymnasium.
The Expense OF a Year in College.
Copyright 1921
pr1,pELPH1A, Feb. 1S-With the
olanr Of the big college bell at Z O'Clock, the
.oIlsqe day begins at Bryn Mawr. At its
Ind 1jO fair students wake from dreams
- "Grimm's Law" or the "BinominaI
theory" rub their eyes and wonder yawn-
i,g what the day has in store. After break
a.. which is served in the dining rooms
rom 7:3O to O'Clock. the students In
srbolas.ic cap and gown gather in the
.baDel Tor prayers. Although the wearing
IF them is purely voluntary, the cap and
Gown are found to be so convenient and
comfortable, and, above all, SO
bscomiug, that their use is al
most universal at Bryn Mawr. For ordi-
nary wear they are usually made of black
serge. They are put on for morning pray
o,s and scarcely laid aside till dinner time,
hui they are never worn off the grounds.
Etg o'clock the real work of the day be-
-Ins and from then until lunch time, at l
O'clock. the whole life of the college is in
Tavlor hall, where the lecture rooms aud
Laboratories are. The teaching is almost en-
tirely by lectures, which are taken down in
coverless note books, consisting of about
twenty blank pages stitched together
modelled after the "heftS" Of the German
Students and called by their German NAME
During these morning hours the library is
full of students seated around the long ia
HES reading on their various lines of study
In the broad window seats and in the corri-
doris groups of students collect TO discuss in
low. animated tones the lecture Just heard,
or the one ABOUT to come. Talk about the
mornings work also adds an intellectual
flavor to the luncheon at O'Clock. Dinner,
az 6 o'clock, is the formal meal of the day.
evening dress is worn, and college matters
are excluded from the conversation. The
tables in the dining rooms hold about fifteen
each, and one of the number is often app
pointed to read up the news of the day and
bring it forward for discussion at dinner.
The arrangement for the living of the
students are based on ideas recently de-
veloped. There is no crowdng. The three
residence houses, Merton hall, Radnor hall
and Denbeigh hall, are large, handsome
structures of Port Deposit stone, finished
inside with oak and yellow pine aud hold
about fifty students each. The rooms, large
airy and well heated, are in suites
of three, consisting of two bedrooms,
with a sitting room between. Some of
others have each bedroom and a sitting
room. The pretty oak furniture supplied
BY the college often serves merely as a back
ground for the elaborate refurnishing of the
students. No room is complete without its
dainty tea table; soft pillows are heaped in
the deep, cozy window seats, a bright fire
burns in the open CRATE. and all around are
the pretty trif1es that even the most INTEL
lectual of girls loves to have about her.
The students are not expected to take care
of their rooms, and everything is kept In
exquisite neatness and order. Each hall has
It's own dining room and drawing rooms
and nine bath rooms. A mistress presides
over each hall who has nothing to do with
the instruction, but to whom all questions
of propriety are referred.
There are no rules-no petty boarding
school restrictions. Each girl is free to
come and go as she likes, being required only
to register her name if she goes TO Phila-
delphia. Visitors may be received at any
time, either in the common dra wing room
or her private sitting room. If men are
received In the sitting room the mistress of
the house must be present as a chaperon.
Five o'clock tea has become an institution
at Bryn Mawr, and, indeed. the students are
rather addicted to teas of all Sorts At the
birthday teas the number of
guests is limited to the num-
Der of years reached by the enter
tainer Early in the first semester teas are
given to the freshmen, and in this pleasant
fashion they become acquainted with the
older students and receive their first knowl
edge of characteristic college ways. "At
homes" are given nearly every
evening from 8 to 10, after
all the work Of the day is over.
each girl in turn opening her room for the
purpose, and preparing some light refresh
ments. After this the halls subside into
quiet and darkness, only a light cleaning
here and there, showing where some dill
gent student is burning the midnight OIL
The students are very clever at getting
up entertainments of various kinds given
for the most part in the gymnasium, where
there is piano. Tableaux illustrating the
studies in the various departments are given.
Many of the jolliest entertainments are i'm
promptu affairs thought of in the afternoon
and put through the Same evening with
great success. The necessity of rehearsing
and arranging of costumes becomes genuine
recreation, especially during February and
March, when even teas become slightly
monotonous, and the days are too short and
and chilly for much outdoor exercise. Of
outdoor sports, however, there is plenty at
syn Mawr. Many exciting games are won
and lost during the tennis season, as
many as ten courts being in use at once.
Alter that is over, the beautiful surround
Is COuhbIya Lull Ol HISTORICAL 6SSOCla-
lions and quaint recollections, invites
long walks. Those who have their own
horses ride or drive daily. and those botan-
Haliy inclined ramble through wood aud
held. Occasionally hare and hound hunts
are held. Two Of the best runners, fur
ni'hed with bags of paper to drop, are chos-
en- Tor "hares." Ten minutes after they
start five and twenty gay hounds" are
after them, racing merrily over the frozen
roads and fields, and forever giving the lie
10 the assertion that girls can't run
win the first snow the sleds are brought
out There are same very good hills near
we college, and on the bright, wintry
evenings parties of a dozen or more girls
seat themselves on long, narrow
sea at the top of the hill and
slide swiftly to the bottom, and then,
AMID much laughter and breathlessness,
sIii slowly up again for fresh start. The
se1 IS often pulled up by a horse belonging
W W one OF the students. There is also plenty
=. aelghlng when there is enough snow, and
0Aa'Ing on little pond near the college.
from November to April the gymnasium
ESeSents lively scene every afternoon.
9rs IN full Turkish trousers of blue
nunnel trimmed with silver braid, and
euhls shoes, fly through the air on rings
auu trapezes. row and jump, push and pull
eighIs or run in steady line around the
upper gallery, which serves for a running
rack Although it is, like all the college
.,oLR, purely voluntary, yet nearly all the
oiTuuehts put i'll about sixteen hours a week,
a.. Tue exercise being taken under the super