Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-13

tnty nave not been introduced
 That is not western I said to the bright-eyed junior curled up among her cushions, it is English"
 Maybe, she replied. but we are community by ourselves"
 The junior aforementioned had three or four Greek letter pins thrust through various portions of her apparel and on inquiry it appeared that these pins were insignia Of the mems fraternities. So 1t seems that in some cases there are in- troductions.
 Students drive together and walk to- gether without chaperones. We have too much self-respect to imagine we need any" said the junior At the small dances gotten up in the town there are naturally older persons pres ent, and at the larger college receptions members of the faculty will usually look in, but going and coming each man takes his maid and doesn't care a fig for Mrs. Grundy. The college boys have song about the girls, which they use as a serenade when they pass under the windows of the girls fraternity houses. One stanza runs something like this. 1 caught it imperfectly as quartette were trolling it. probably for the benefit of the junior, that evening:
 Here's to the co-ed with brain full of books
 And noli-me-tangere, frangere air.
 Who prattles of Plato and Cfto and looks
 Into Persius and curtius while doing her
 hair
 CHORUS
 Oh. cobwebby tresses of shining gold
 GOT whatever color they may be)
 Oh, glances so coy and winsone and cold
 Of the coed that vanquishes me This looks as if the introductions were appreciated, at least in some in- stances. The boys don't carry the girls books on the campus, don't often walk with them, though I heard of one very nice bit of repartee. A young woman was remonstrating with a fellow stu dent for escorting her home every day: 'Got to do it." he answered; ''it would make talk if I didn't"
 Here was a subtle bit of philosophy from which it appears that the usual cannot be defed, even if the usual be the simultaneous appearance of young man and a young woman.
 But Ann Arbor thinks more about books than about beaux. Tuition is very low as compared with eastern schools, rent is almost nominal, board ranges from two dollars and fifty cents to four dollars, and the result is that while the rich merchants of Detroit and other western cities are apt to send their girls east for chances to spend money, yet up in Ann Arbor the sons and daughters of westerners of mod fof fC ,iz of nearly three thousand, are living a typically American life and learning to be self-reliant American citizens.
 A round little blonde sophomore took me to her lodging house, and here the glimpse of the ewig weibliche was charming. She and her chum rented suite of rooms, parlor and bedroom, for three dollars, eating at one of the larger dining halls, and this I learned is so common as to be the usual way of living. At one dollar and fifty cents each for lodging and two dollars and fifty cents for board, four dollars week pays living expenses on a scale of comfort that leaves nothing to be desired by a good robust Michigan girl. If a girl hasn't got the board money she can wait on table and earn it, and everybody will like her just as we'll The sitting-room of the dainty suite had a piano, it had books and pictures and cushions. Cushions overflow into the mems fraternity houses and make them peculiarly comfortable loolzing.) The sitting room had pretty china and ap- l pliances for making five-o'clock tea. It had an open fireplace and deep, lux urious rocker. so that it was not at all l hard to believe the sophomore when she looked reflectively at jug of dark blue asters and said: "I never was so happy as since came here"
 Everybody has asked and nobody has ever found out satisfactorily how the l girls rank in their studies in such a big coeducational school Dean D'Ooge, of 1 the college proper, who is also profes- sor of Creek, told me, when put the l question to him, that in his classes the girls not infrequently came out ahead, l but that in mathematics and philoso- 1 phy the students commonly were men.
 Taking it through the different de- | partments," he continued, ''the rank and file of the girls average better than the men, because they are more consei- entious and have fewer distractions, but the very best students are apt to be men"
 President Angel said substantially | the same thing, but added that the medical schools had an exceptionally l fine class of women in attendance, more mature than the college girls.
 1 So the girls are not breaking records at Ann Arbor, and, until the epidemic 1 of new womanhood is over, it's just as well, probably,
 l There are about one hundred women in the professional and technical schools, as compared with more than five hundred in the college. In the medical college most of the lectures are given to men and women together, though separate instruction is pro I yided in some branches. In the dental