The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-21
THE KIND OF A GIRL SHE Is.
New England, Southern and Western
Student Types.

New England, Southern und Western
Student Types.
ooh, nobody expects a girl from New
Jersey to spell correctly"
Such is the opinion of a lady, a
member of the faculty of well known
institution in New York devoted to the
training of woman teachers. It was
delivered during the progress of COM
mencement exercises recently held.
During the several years have been
connected with the college, continued
the lady, ST have made a little hobby
of noting the peculiarities of students
from different sections of the country.
This institution affords ample material
for such observations, as young women
from all parts of the United Staes and
Canada come to u.s..
Now the girl from New England is a
well-marked type. She is the most re-
liable and conscientious student we
have to deal With-certainly the most
self-reliant. She will carry out the in
structions given her with a preciseness
and attention to detail peculiar to her.
self. Conscientious to a degree, rigidly
consistent and, if l may be permitted to
say so, she is almost eXaSperatingly
seems to lack perspective; 1t distresses
itself over minutiae to so great an
extent, the mental view gets narrow.
The small things block the way, and a
broad view cannot be obtained.
''Take the girl from the south. What
a helpless creature the southern girl
is! She has nothing of that hard,
| practical nature that marks the New
England girl; she is utterly dependent.
Ambition outside of social triumph does
not apparently belong to the young
woman student of the south. She is
particularly lovable, and has her own
beautifully indefinite way of doing
things. She skins over the surface in
a graceful way, and abhors anything
bordering on the abstruse.
Perhaps the most amusing type of
girl comes from Washington, d. G.
We have never had a student from the
capital that had the faintest idea of the
value of time. That faculty is absolute
| ly wanting in the Washington girl.
! Punctuality is an unknown quantity
with her. No matter how strict the
discipline she cannot be taught that a
day is divided into so many hours
| in which tasks have to be done.
For downright and genuine natures
! / think the students from the far west
are most conspicuous. We have them
| from Nebraska, Dakota, Wyoming.
There lis a breezy optimism about them
THAT is very refreshing. They have an
abundant stock of enthusiasm and do
their work with dash and vigor. Their
mental grasp is broad, and, though
they do not possess the sense of detail,
they have great originality.
What 1 call the combination type
of student comes from the Pacific slope.
! The girls from California have no strik-
ing characteristics. They are a happy
blend of other types, to which is added
sunniness of disposition and vivacity.
They make good teachers. They are
blessed with an eqhable temperament,
which is no small factor of success in
teaching, a factor, too, which western
and southern students frequently lack.
'"Then there is the Canadian girl.
There is a degree of similarity between
her and the New England girl so far as
painstaking goes, but she is more re-
served and stiff. She has an indescrib-
able air of repression which up to the
present 1 have been unable to analyze.
"Alasi yes, it is a fact that the New
Jersey girl is in constant hot water
about her orthography. Double con-
sonants and silent letters are her betes
noires. She will write climbing with
/ out the b. place but one r. in hurry,
and always put an unnecessary 'e' in
! Judgment She is a good student in
all other respects, but spelling and
New Jersey are apparently antipa-
t4letic.
II know some of my criticisms are
sharp, but of course they have to be
taken in a general sense, for there are
exceptions to every rule. What 1 have
said is based simply on my own OBJ
servations, and these may have been
faulty, but they have been made with
out prejudice New York Sun.