The age-herald., 1898-07-24
BY ANNIE kENDRICK WALKER.

| alike; in others they differ as though they | were not on the same planet, not to say the same campus. fairly typical day would run something like this: the student rises at if she is properly industrious, (other authorities affirm that a properly industrious student may rise much earlier or much later, but readers are cautioned against crediting them. l rise at 730 o'clock myself; and anywhere from s o'clock to twenty-five minutes paSt-the dining room doors close at half past eight if she trusts in providence and can dress rapidly enough. After breakfast comes | chapel; and from chapel-time until lunch 1 time our damsel fits from one lecture room to another with a pile of fat red note books under her arm. When lecture and lunch are over, she finds herself, unless she has a laboratory course, free for the rest of the day; and betakes herself in the ory at least to her own room that of a friend for two or three hours of study If she is doing the sciences, however, she goes to 'lab;" either to the chemical one, where she ruins her best boots and destroys all the braid on her skirt by spill ing acids on the floor and walking into them, or to the biological one, where she has to dissect a frog, and gaily chops all the most curious and beautiful parts of him into atoms, until the demonstrator swoops down on her, and makes her begin all over, a sadder and a wiser girl, on a new frog.
 put lHe HlOSI DedutlIul paTC the daY comes when the hours devoted to lab or study or reading over; when every one, as if by common consent, drops note books and text books and rest and relaxa- tion are the order of the day, until the dressing bell rings before dinner. This rest and this relaxation are sought in diff ferent ways. The freshmen generally rest by playing basket ball. their chara cteristic impetuosity usually leading them to pro- long the game until dinner time. They then employ the fifteen minutes grace before the doors close, in making a nasty toilet and enter the dining room violently at the last moment, very shiny with soap, and not infrequently tying one another's rib bons as they come in.
 The sophomores rest in some less violent form of exercise and manage to spare time for afternoon tea besides, becoming mildly convivial over small cups of Whitman's chocolate.
 The juniors are harder to settle as a class. I skipped my junior year and can- not speak from experience, but I think the juniors find relaxation in writing for the "Fortnightly Philistine.' a periodical which deserves its name. As a rule, the can't write for it, the sophomores don't and the seniors won't so the juniors must. However, I will give them the benefit of the doubt. But it is the senior to whom the hour before dinner is peculiarly precious It is the hour of the day when they as- semble to discuss the degeneracy of the times. This is never their avowed inten- tion, but they always do 1t, and they find it good for the digestion. A senior, after watching from her own window, or a friends, the freshman returning hot and srubby from the field the sophomore com ing home from a walk or tea and the jour- nalistic junior mady scribling away on her window seat by the failing light, finds her appetite for dinner much improved by re- fiecting and hearing her friends reflect how much better freshmen, sophomores and juniors their class made than the pres ent underclassmen do.
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 After dinner comes the time for hard work. often broken into at half-past nine, which is "party-time." Welsh rare bits and fudge are always good, but their fla vor is never so fine as at ten o'clock or whereabouts on winters night, when the only use for notebooks is as screens to keep the draughts off the alcohol lamp.
 Then comes more study, unless the crowd stay to talk: and presently the lighted windows and transoms grow dark one by one, and the members of the rare bit party are proving the fallaciousness of our grand mothers belief in the nightmare that fol- lows indigestible feasts at bedtime.
 The large social affairs, official or oth- erwise, occur often enough to keep the small 10 o'clock suppers from becoming a broken reed, through being too much lcaned on, as a social resource. The big senli-annual receptions are just like re- captions everywhere, only bigger, and so need no comment, and the formal teas, large and small are also importations from the world with out, and not indigenous to college soil. But between these and the rare bit party there Hes wide range of possibilities, and at Bryn Mawr, these pos- abilities are realized in the class plays, in fancy dress germans and "variety shows," in the gymnasium; in the entertainments of the Philosophical club and other clubs,