Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-08-06
DANGERS OF COLLEGE GIRLS.
The First Year of Life in an Institu.
ton of I.enrnine Is a Test
of Cheracter.


English literature at Wellesley, the IA
nous women's college, has been writ
ing OF the college girl of the period,
ana her experience among the class
qualities her to write understanding
~, says an educational journal 1t is
MISS Bates opinion that the freshmen
year is the danger year. Health may
De so impaired that the student is sent
nome, there to be most enormously
pointed out as the victim of overstudy.
conditions may be incurred that will
hamper all the subsequent course of
the overworried, over-shamefaced
GIRL who must take time and strength
from the work of her sophomore year
10 make good her freshman failures.
ana hence incurs new conditions in
The new subjects, dragging "at each
remove frightening chain" A mis-
conducted freshman year, too, NAV fix
reputation for flightiness, loud man
hers or the like upon one who, when
the first iItoXication of her liberty
mas passed, could have lived up to a
Sood name, but is led by pride and
Pique, as she sees the better elements
IN the student world withdrawing from
her. to cast in her lot with the widest
ana most featherbrained companions
snip OF the place.
MS Is the dark side of the picture.
Many freshmen have been prepared by
Judlc1ous training at home or in school
Tor undertaking the direction of their
ually lives. Others are quick to profit
oy the hints of comrades or by their
own observation. Required lectures
on hygiene, frequent tests in class
work, fortunate friendships often
counteract the perils of inexperienced.
Ana the student who comes success
luly through her freshman year has
all the chances in her favor for glad
ana honorab bic college course. She has
learned that freedom lies within the
circle of law, not without it.
Inc typical college girl before her
sophomore year is over has her own af
lars in hand and brings a fund of
SuPernuous energy to the business of
the commonweal. The executive abil
NY developed in American college life
Is continual surprise to the onlooker
10 the timid entering student manv
come possible. She may be found run
ming a magazine, dealing shrewdly with
printer and advertiser, reading proof
writing items, leaders, reviews. She
may practice wide range of activities
OH class committees, from conducting
campaign in undergraduate politics
10 planning and carrying through the
social functions of gala DAYS where
guests are numbered by hundreds O,
by thousands. The athletic association
may trust heN with grave responsible
tiles in the selection and layino ont M
golf grounds or in arranging for ar
intercollegiate tournament. If her
Greek letter society is building its
chapter-house it may fall to her lot
to confer with architects and decora
tors, buy rugs, divans and other fur
n1shings or engineer the finance OF
the whole enterprise. The sense of dis
lance between senior and freshman
is not altogether fictitious. On the
practical side of life alone the fou,
years cannot count for more than
arithmetic confesses.
Women colleges have faculties dis.
gruntled in proportion as they find
their occupation gone. They are no
longer asked, IN most instances. to
make and to administer rules for stu
dent conduct. The students are self.
organized into a self-directing and self
disciplining body. The faculties are
obviously out of place in this projected
dreamland of youth and mirth and
beauty. Hence they are prone to COM
plain that. what with undergraduate
business and what with undereradu-
ate pastime, there is no room left in
college for the intellectual life. How
do these hurried and preoccupied girls.
with festal music tinkling in their
heads, have opportunity to Behold
the bright coTntenances of truth in
the quiet and still air of delightful