The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-27
1Ol THE UPRTSEN COED.
THE STORY OF HER EMANCIPATION
At CORNELL.

"a Her Triumph ut Basketball. Tennis,
and RowinE-The Victory OF Class Over Glass
and n Rumpus In the Corridors or snEo'
nrrine the college year which has Just closed
,ho Young women of Cornell University have
hroken their record. In the twenty-five years
that have passed since women wore admitted to
Tho university they have kept t~olerably intact |
that stiF.backed conservatism which expresses
itself in tho question. "What viii tho men say y
Tbat formula has been heard this year less often
than formerly at Cornell.
One might fancy that young women who were
hold enough to seek out q great school whero
libraries. laboratories, and instruction arc Of
tho best, and 60 there although the mon arc to
the women as six to ono, would feel quito In.
different when once matriculatod as to what the
men thought Of their conduct. Such. however,
has not been the case. Tho average coed is not
half so self.conhdent and independent as the
girl who studies as some woman's college, whore
women have things all their own way until they
fancy that theirs 10 the best and only way. The
co.ei's temptation. on tho other hand, has been
to look ut everything through mems eyes until
sho cannot follow oven her most natural and
inohensivo impulses without first stopping to
wonder what the mon will say.
But that era 10 on the wane. There il . grow
ing consciousness among the women that 1t does
not after all matter what the mon think, pro-
vided only the women themselves are strong in
the feeling that their conduct IL in itself above
reproach.
The story OF the rise OF the Good il too long to
be told in detail, but 1t is interesting to see how
the new spirit has expressed itself in one direc-
ton at least. That is in the development, dur
ing the last year, Of athletic interests heretofore
Cannsn n."naan Nd no ermnas,rn, ,sor.hv ~
the name, and 1t was regarded as almost un-
xrpmanly for thenl To want one. They had n
little room at the back of Sage College that went
nv the name of gymnasium, but the most cher
ished object in it was an old woodon-voiOed
piano, on which dancing accomplishments were
pounded every night after dinner. Dancing was
the on,y exercise .u'usH'eu IN
those days, gymnasium IN. WORK SOmnn IN inc ,h freshman 1t
nasu hvt av.rvhodv h.tod =, TN. oirIs haS
Is NOW, out everyeoaS na'9u ~. me siris haa
49, al .,tar them hnt on,n when h. had ,,ms
looked aiter tnem' out ohiy "neh ne nao time.
o,rco,atsd a %netition asking that sage co..
ieso have a special instructor in symnas-
tics. The petition was ignored, but it may
bsi1,. 6 Ts;l so to SsSn ana 4 t1 1sw SSy% eO%mn9,o MAS
1 Vote hers es w bi,Ha time m to The eymn essSet tpa IN me-
i Et t ssm s'r an,st asat eV1 &xe a : I'm %P PTmeastles
, E.s stiii Ioonsa on az a comnnIsorv sSnnrancs
d msn nSS for sopb she diss'plinins of haple's fresh
a YEAR "a ago last January Miss Nan Seymour
setbe r and on their own responsibilitV inVites
Miss Lucille Eaton Hin. director OF the Wellesley
sSmhss az The 70 So pay times mse MOVED by the W Wel es.
lev girls. who have no men to worry them, made
fellow students Of the other sex. finder Miss
Hills direction. they formed the Sports and
glory, and now the mems comments are power.
less 10 stop it.
and pays the fee Of SO cents a year may belong
al sno ifaS sos tso Sv The : assoeiation SONS AZ o sp as !. ene
interest IS shown in various sports certain clubs
o by an ExecutiVe composed
Of the President, Vice resident, secretary. and
student. The ~physicai director Of the sage gym.
m nsSIae; 1 OF the hest stu aeMe BODY. .'nA'a VINO arc not
The association now includes q basketball
sISS n a 5eR RPass siss' a sn sn e S lissI :. club .sS. 4 iSiSs sSss
girls have wheels n he Sage bicycle stables.
drance rather than a help TO the bicycIists. II
is sisnidcant fact that a Cornell woman darea
in broad daylight across the campus. The
world at large had to get well accustomed to the
Eifi ventured to mount one. Only a few years
ago. a certain Western girl brought her wheel
TO Sage College. SO disapprovinely, however
did people look at the young woman when she
essayed't to ride it that even her Western ardor
cooled. and the bike was left most OF the time
under the stairs In the entrance hall, where II
was an object Of interest to every caller. But
now all that Is different, and even the Cornell
coed wheels unchallenged in the procession oil
progress.
The girls wanted q fencing club last winter
but in attempting to organize they ran uI
against one Of the university's conservative
snags and had to abandon their purpose. Al
neither the physical director of the mems gym
E sIaGm fHr IS isT PAID Iid'fs for tes acfhGG19r girls Gil t to fence sSss
they could scarcely ask either him or her to give
them instruction in the graceful art, and be
sides the honorable faculty, In solemn council
assembled. had decided that only Instructors
hired by the university should be allowed to show
OF on the campus, and 30 the fencing club wal
never formed.
,Agolf club will be organized probably during
the coming year. The Dramatic Club asked for
admission into the association. but was kept Out