St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1895-10-25

ing the students OF both the mems
and the women's dormitory to man
age their own tables. A committee
OF one woman from Roble Hall and
three men from Encina Hall, elected
by the general student body, takes
the entire charge of the boarding
arrangements Of the two buildings.
They hire and discharge the steward,
who in turn hires and superntends
all kitchen and dining room servants
and buys the supplies. They, and
the students through them, bring 10
HIM their complaints and sugges-
tons; they determine the scale of
expenses in this department and col
Iect the monthly bills of the srudeAts.
Beginning at sixteen dollars per
month, the board in both dormi-
tories was shortly brought down to
fourteen, and stands at that figure
at present. In addition to this the
student pays seven dollars and half
for furnished room, light, heat and
service, which brings the monthly
expense at the Halls up to $21.50.
The larger proportion of women
students, either from necessity or
choice, live outside of Roble Hall.
At Palo Alto, mile from the Quad
rangle, or on the Campus, in small
boarding houses, in private families,
or in rooms where they do their own
cooking, they find for themselves
such homes as they choose. One of
the women's Greek letter societies
hires house upon the campus and
forms by itself a pleasant family of
ten members. Rates in private fami.
lies and boarding houses vary all the
way from twenty to forty dollars
per month, while boarding ones self
may be made very economical.
Aside from the dormitory, the only
building devoted especially to women
is the Women's Gymnasium, pictur-
esque and airy structure, well
equipped within and supplemented
by tennis courts without. Gymnas-
ium work, when taken in the regular
classes, ranks with any other study
in the University, and counts"
towards graduation. Thus coercion
in the matter is made unnecessary,
while the girls miss the usual temp
tation to neglect their physical train
ing because of lack of time. The
director Of the gymnasiums, superin-
tending the work of both the men
and the women, is an enthusiast in
regard to the better physical develop
ment of women, the mistress of the
Hall and some of the more inhuen-
tial of the faculty women are also
particularly interested in this line, and
everything is done to encourage the
maintaining OF a sound body and a
high degree of health. Although the
gymnasium classes are we'll offended,
the open air athletics are the more
popular. Owing to the mild climate.
tennis and bicycling are feasible at
all seasons, and both are much in
dulged in. Long tramps are also
favored by a few, and shorter walks
by the many.
Outside of Roble Hall the lite OF
woman student is whatever she
chooses to make it, and TOR those
who live in the Hall almost the same
may be said. The only proviso is
the significant one that she do good
university work and conduct herself
as an orderly member of the COM
munity. Whether in the hall or out
side, the government" of the women
is the same as for all students. 1t is
attended to by the faculty Commit
oo ou StuJent fairs ~ who oct in
accordance with the policy thus
tersely expressed in the Register"
THE University is not a reform
school; its bounty is intended for the
earnest and industrious student, and |
the indolent or unworthy will not be
retained in the institution
The purely frivolous girl finds it
"no fun" at Stanford, and she soon
slips away to more congenlal en-
vironment. The purely fashionable
girl looks with disfavor upon COM
munity so simply and unconsciously
democratic from its president down,
that the girl who earns her way by
doing homework in a professors
family has precisely the same lniu-
ence and social position that she
would have if she paid board at forty
dollars q month. Those who do