Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-11
THE ATHLETIC COLLEGE GIRL.
she Enjoys All Kinds of sport from Fo"'
ball to Boat Rowing.

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All the usual field sports popul.
at mems colleges are also popular
among the girl students. Several Il
the womens colleges have the y
crews, and no one can deny that t
Young women are good manipulation
of the oar. Float day at Welleslt
ia a gala day, and crowds of enthu !.
a,stic spectators are on hand to W.
ness the regatta. In one OF the ST y
of the west there is D
cadet company among the you
women students, who are under Z
same instruction and are subjeci
to the same regulations as the J
ular cadets. They are drilled by % ~
government officer detailed at t."
military department, and are re
ularly reviewed by the governor a1.o
staff.
The high compliments they have
received from the state executive
body and the attention they have at
tracted in the community genoranJ,
to say nothing Of the admiration eT-
cited, must be very gratifying to tie
fair soldiers. They have all been
properly disciplined, and when occ1-
sion demands will be ready to serve
their country in time of need. There
are numerous football teams and
baseball mines managed and equipped
bv the women students in different
parts of the country, and their inter
collegiate matches show that thoy
are progressing rapidly in their race
for muscle.
IF q girl has not all the latest i'm
Drovements at hand for her athlet'
sports she makes the most Of wha
she has, particularly if she is Vas
sar girl, and has good time at any
rate. Who but a Vassar girl wouiG
ever have thought of using barre
stave for coaster2 This idea origi
mated ten. or twelve years ago, anG
the practice has been kept up re
ligiously ever since. Now Of course
this device is preferred to the con
ventional sled, and when the snow
has q hard, slippery crust the far
coaster Skins down one Of those Ions
Poughkeepsie hills so fast that ii
fairly takes her breath away. To
bogganing cannot compare with thia
improvised coasting as far as fun
goes. Let any one who does not be
lieve there is any fun in it just try ii
once.
One class in a prominent New Eng
land college, the name of which
have promised not to divulge, had
quite as much fun in coasting as
their Vassar sisters, although they
used an entirely different device. Ii
place of the barrel slaves, which are
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-
ceai the dustpans under their ulsters,
slip out again to their favorite place
of resort and slide away to their
hearts content. Sometimes all the
dustpans would be tied together and
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 deXterity
come with practice. The homely
household implementin the hands Of
the frolic!,ing girl was converted
into an article of supreme delight.
The authorities frowned upon the
practice as establishing an undesira-
bic precedent, besides being undigni-
fed and furnishing the paragrapher
with material for new joke on the
college girl. After suffering the an
noyance of time wasted by the senior
in her housework, owing to the in
convenience Of using dustpans whose
divorced handles were peaceful
slumbering a dozen rods away ii 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.