The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-13


entity of Wellesley college has been
rudely disturbed this week by the
| pranks of several girl students, who
have been summarily dealt with by the
faculty
1t is all on account of the supera-
bundance of animal spirits of some of
the young women Dryden aptIy ex-
| pressed in verse the high jinks that
have just agitated college beautiful"
for the girls have been having a
Very merry. dancing drinking.
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking
time.
AS a result of this 'unthinking time"
the members of the faculty have put in
several thoughtful hours. On Tuesday
and Wednesday the illness of relatives
OF three students compelled their i'm
mediate departure Trunks were hasti-
" packed and bicycles and saratogas
lncumbered the station platform, while
a crowd of maidens thronged the plat
form to bid adieu to those so suddenly
called hOme-fOr good.
Some of the girls on the platform,
while sorry to lose their departing
friends, were hardly depressed, mas
much as they had reason to bless a dis
terminating faculty, or perhaps a for
tunate circumstance, for preventing
similar illness in their own families.
BY the action of the faculty the
1llGIu Dt-ISIlID OF a merry organization OF
eight has been cut down, and just now
there are several persons not connected
with the college who are wondering
how Miss SO-and-So and few other
light-hearted and high-spirited young
women managed to weather the inves-
tgatiOn- But they did, and one of
them, who comes from the west, has
been given the credit of most cleverly
Outwitting the searching cross eXamin-
ers of the faculty
Well, three young ladies have gone
home, but in no event will the illness
of their relatives permit their return.
Miss Helen OrdWay, a dark-haired
beauty of "A, who would have received
her diploma in another six weeks,
packed her trunks and departed for her
Massachusetts home on Wednesday.
Mary Kirby, an auburn haired fresh
man Of 20 years, told the girls that her
brother was very ill., and with BIZ
cycle, grip and sara tOga made off for
her home in Wisconsin never to return
| to Wellesley unless in some other ca
pacity than student.
Miss Tower of Albany likewise de-
parted on Tuesday, but she was in
such a hurry that, she could not wait
for her trunk, SO her friends sent it on
after her.
The others who for the last week
have been walking the chalk mark of
prOpriety are not mentioned, and the
villagers who know so much are con-
siderately keeping quiet With Wei
lesley people it is case of everyone
With such large membership of
varied dispositions and natures, the
rigid rules of Wellesley are incOmpati-
BILE with the theories of enjoyment en-
tertained by some of the students AS
a result, now and then a salutary les
son has to be given by the authorities,
and this last week was one of the
times.
The girls who are deemed to require
a close espionage are obliged to room
in the building within the college
grounds, under the official eye of the
institution; the more StudiOusly in
clined are permitted to board in private
house in Wellesley village.
The latter, therefore, enjoy greater
liberty, and consequently village life
is the great am bIt1On OF the girl VINO
loves other worlds than that of books
Among the village bOarders there is
almost always a merry company, some
of whom manage to get themselves
talked about. and sooner or later are
assigned rooms within the college
grounds. They are attractive and
form a congenial company, and in this
present case the Jolly Eight" into
which inroads have been made, were
about as conspicuously merry a group
as can be recalled Miss Kirby is re
puted to have been one of the Iiveliest
and best natured, and expressions of
genuine regret are heard at the illness
of her brother at this time.
Although not stI.idngly handsome,
she was magnetic and bright and alto
gether a most entertaining body.
Nearly all of the girls forming the set
in which auburn haired Mary Kirby
moved ride bicycles, and in the pursuit
of exercise they were allowed to take
long rides on plea SAINT afternoons. To
Natick was the favOrite trip, and, ac-
cording to the stories told, the wheel
ing excursions were accompanied by
unsanctiOned Indulgence in a certain
liquid valued at $3.50 a quart.
What appeared to the conservative
mind of the, college faculty as most
objectionable offense was a very or
binary matter to the girls who had not
been subjected to the rigid discipline
and narrow prejudices of the east To
them it was no indiscretiOn to take
drink of champagne or of whisky, or to
open a bottle of beer in their rooms
once in awhile, or even to smoke a Gig
arctic if they felt like it.
This in a measure, accounts for the
fact that they did not observe the Tu lis
Of the institution forbidding the taking
of intoxicants unless prescribed by the
college physician.
So they partook of these deIectable
LIQUIDS without the prescription and so
frequently and under such clrcurn-
stances as to cause comment
1t is told that one of the young Wo-
men who had just left college, with an
other friend, still student, rode up to
one of the three railroad stations on
their bikes, one afternoon about two
weeks ago, dismounted and went IN
A fter they left an empty bottle, which
had recently contained half a pint of
whisky, was found, most insinuaung
reason for their resorting to this quiet
spot
these young women at the room of one
of the number, and quiet evenings at
home, with beer and cigarettes to make
light hearts lighter and footsteps like
some of the deTnOnStrat lions of abStruSe
problems weighty and certain.
The LIQUID that these Wellesley girls
INDUCED in deceived them, and as