The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-19
AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRL.
She Has Much More Fredom Than Hel
 European Sister.


 European Sister.
 An interesting comparison between the American college girl and her Euro pean counterpart. z-.....-. ;.
 The American woman's college is a thing wholly amazing in European eyes, according to this critic. No European educational institution would think of allowing to it's inmates such aluxurious- ness of surroundings as appears in the American girls college room. The ex- treme simplicity of the food being the cnly thing common to both types of educational community.
 To the unintitiated beholder the American college girls room, with f1ages and posters and sporting souvenirs and class symbols. with mems pictures on desks and dressing table, might be college boys.
 On the other side of the ocean young women are supposed not to keep young mems portraits in their roms, just as they are not supposed to meet on equal terms of comradeship the subjects of the aforesaid pictures. The absence of books in the room and the conspicuous presence of candy boxes and fruit baskets might also strike the European observer as peculiar.
 All this corresponds with radical difference in the life of women students in America and in Europe The Euro pean girl goes to her university purely for learning. and in the lower educa- tional institutions 1t is the same. Stu- dy is the business of life. and only those fortunate ones who have friends and relatives to take them out occasionally and give them a good time ever get any fun.
 Tn America the college is school of | life, with all sorts of activities besides study. The European college girl has to find out after she leaves college eve lrything that her American sister learns while at college, though occasionally in 1 old Europe a girl has chance of get ting out of her life perhaps more expe- rience and at least the same amount of pleasure as the American girl does, al though in way entirely different; this is a girl who attends a university for men and enjoys in the old world, among hundreds Of men, the perfect freedom of movement and the feeling of inde- lpendence which characterize the happy 1 life of the American college girl happy | in that she realizes life, without the irl- evitable strain which comes to the same life when lived by one girl among a
 crowd of mem.
 | The chief characteristic of the Ameri- can woman,s college Is well defined, the critic proceeds, by the historical words, life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness.'' To the college girls happiness many elements are cooperating, among which, notably, are papa's cheeks and I the advantages depending thereon; fac ulty votes forbidding a schedule of over so many hours week or more than a | certain number of courses for the se- mester; constant anxiety on the part oi "Prex' and M. D." lest the young lbuds of hope break down under the strain of study, and so forth.
 This last appears particularly strange to the European mind, No one gives g thought there. it appears to the effects
 of study on the health of the students
 "We may moan, sigh or revolt, !" says I the writer; i've may strike, protest oi die in the attempt; from the serene l Olympus of the faculty the gods watch with calm, unruffied brow the struggle of the nonentities down in the halls oi l learning - Outlook.