The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-10
 AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRL
She Has Much More Freedom Tn;

She Has Much More Freedom Than Her European Sister
 The American women's college Is a thing wholly amazing in European eyes, according to this critic. No Eu- Ircpean educational institution would think of allowing to it's inmates such q of surroundings as appears in the American girls col lege room, the extreme simplicity of the food being the only thing common ito both types of educational commun- Iity.
 To the urinftated behelder, the
 American college girls room, with l flags and posters and sporting souveni- frs and class symbols, with mems pie lures on desks and dressing table, might be college boys.
 On the other side of the ocean young
 women are supposed not to keep young tmens portraits in their rooms, just as 1 they are. not supposed to meet on Iequal terms of comradeship the sub fleets of the aforesaid pictures. The ab- sence of books iIl the room and the lconspicous presence of candy boxes land fruit baskets might also strike the
 European observer as peculiar.
 All this corresponds with 2 radical difference. in the life of women stud- Eents in America and in Europe. The
 European girl goes to her university purely for learning, and in the lower 1 educational Institutions it is the same. Study Is the business of life, and only Ifboea f0rfY,yaf5. SS,,e y.;l,so fr,rs f,io,,yle e and relatives to take them out oecas- Iionally and try give them good time lever get any fun.
 1 In America the college is a school of life with all sorts of activities besides lstudy. The European college girl has to find out after she leaves college everything that her American sister learns while at college, though occas- ionally in old Europe a girl has a chance of getting out of her life per- Ihaps more experience and at least the Isame amount of pleasure as the Ameri- can girl does, although in a way en- ltirely different; this is girl who at tends a university for men and enjoys in the Old World, among hundreds of men, the perfect freedom of movent and feeling of independence which characterize the happy life of the
 American college girl (happy in that she realizes by herself an ideal of free and intelligent life, without the inevi- | table strain which comes to the same life when lived by one girl among d crowd of men).
 The chief characteristic of the Anneri- can woman's college is well defined, the critic proceeds, by his historical words, life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ., x
 To the college girls happiness many which, notably, are papa's cheeks and
 the advantages depending thereon: fac- uity votes forbidding a schedule of over so many hours a week or more than a certain huber of courses for the semester; constant anxiety on the part of ''Prex" and "M. D. lest the young buds of hope break down under the
 strain of study, and so forth. This last appears particularly strange to the European mind. No one gives a thought there, it appears, to the effect of study on the health of the students. we may moan, sigh or re- volt" says the writer, i've may strike, protest or die in theattempt; from the serene Olympus of the faculty the gods watch with calm, unrutf1ed brow
 the struggle of the nonentities down in the. halls of learning. From Outlook.