The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-22

bodybuilding, and that between loga-
rithms she messages her face with cold
cream, is at rest concerning the survival
of the eternal feminine.
The college girl is an Institution of which
her generation is proud, and yet. and yet
there is something rotten in the state of
Denmark" There is something wrong with
the practical results of the woman's col
lege. Even lovers of the college girl admit
it, and educational theorists discuss it
more in sorrow than in anger.
Not long ago, a man prominent in educa-
tional affairs was talking about his daugh-
ter, a senior in a woman's college, She's a
great girl he said, but she's eXhausting.
III tell you what the woman's college needs
"a chair of proportion"
Perhaps, in that proposed chair lies the
clew to the flaw in this wonder of the mod
ern world. Possibly what the college girl
needs to make her altogether satisfactory
is merely sense of proportion. 1t is the old
disease of the world; but, in what one may
call the clustered college the malady is
~virulent and epidemic. The college girl
takes herself too seriously. Her teachers
take her too seriously. Her mates AXE her
too seriously. She is Of vastly exaggerated
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If she is clever or charming, or both. she
walks in a world of skilfully arranged mir
rors. all Of which reflect her merits. She is
adored of a circle of mates whose devotion
and fattery are merely an expression of
woman's innate capacity for polytheism.
The odor of incense is in her nostrilS from
September to June. She may be devoid of
conceit. but she is saturated with egoism.
Her work, her play, her struggles, her fail
ures, her triumphs, are the world. Family
and social relations grow shady in her per-
s~pective. She touches the real world only
at ~infreQuent points, and then but lightly.
All her measurements are made by the
scale of her own inches.
She goes through a series of enthusi-
asms dependent upon the course of study
she follows and the ability of her various
teachers. and she counts theoretical formu-
lac as mental and spiritual growth. Ambi-
lions OF the loftiest sort seethe In her brain
and her ideals are noble; but her develop
ment is the one vital problem that absorbs
her, and Of the development that comes
through self-enacement she hears no hint.
She IS willing, perhaps, TO be a martyr TO
world welfare-even Graves the martyrdom
but she has a lurking conviction that she
can exchange palms for laurels; and, If
martyrdom II must be, then she Will sur
render no particle of the scenic effect. Her
education is for the purpose of arming her
TO go out into the world and battle with
any opportune hydra that a kind Provi-
dence is willing to sacrifice TO her welfare.
but she demands a genuine hydra, a fire
spouting tail-lashing, Siesfried dragon that
will be imposing when stuffed and mounted.
The well-meaning parents who send their
daughter 10 a wOman's college for four
years are likely to find themselves in a po-
sition akin to that of the fisherman con-
fronting the genie Of the bottle. There's no
getting your college girl back into the bot
tie and cOrking her up. One can hardly re-
greet that. A girl must have room for
growth. but the amplitude Of her college
proportions strikes awe TO the heart of the
average parent. She fills so much space that
the family horizon is a trifie obscured.
The girls brother, fresh from college,
may be more egotistical than she is. He
probably is. For monumental asinine con-
ceit, your youth of two or three and TWEEN
~ IS hard TO beat. But the boy has less
egoism than his sister. The college bow
doesn't live in a circle around himself as
the college girl does. He has the better un-
derstanding OF the individuals relation TO
society at large. His college world has
come nearer being a miniature world of
fact than the college world OF his sister.
In II. men and things have fallen into their
natural relations. No adoring chum has
warmed his slippers for him, run I'm his
baby ribbons. put violets on his dresser.
bathed his aching head in eau-de-cologne.
II his chum has been willing 10 lend him
a FLYER on occasion. or has offered him a
that chum has fulfilled the whole dutv OF
man: and the boy who takes himself seri-
ously. has much 10 learn before his senior
year.
The college girl plunges into the outside
world. armed cap-a-pie, and resolutely de-
termined 10 do something For certain
girls necessity stands at the college gates.
Their education has been given them as a
practical means to a definite end, and Jam