Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1904-10-13

Does Not Enjoy a. Much Freedom and
Life az Her American
Counterpart.

An interesting comparison between
the American college girl and her Eu-
ropean counterpart, says the Outlook.
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 Its inmates
such q righteousness Of surroundings
rs appears in the American girls col
lege room. The extreme simplicity OF
the food being the only thing common
to both types Of educational COM
munity.
To the uninitiated beholder the
American college girls room. with
flags ana posters and sporting souve-
Mrs and class symbols, with mems
pictures on desks and dressing table.
might be a college boys.
On the other side of the ocean young
women are supposed not to keep young
mems portraits in their rooms, 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 bas-
kets might also strike the European
observer as peculiar.
All this corresponds with radical
difference in the life OF women stu
dents in America and in Europe. The
European girl goes to her university
purely for learning, and in the lower
educational institutions II Is the same.
Study is the business Of life, and only
those fortunate ones who have friends
and relatives to take them out occa-
sionally and give them a good time
ever get any fun
In America the college Is q school
of life, with all sorts OF activities be-
sides study. The European college
girl has to find out after she leaves
college everything that her American
sister learns while at college, though
occasionally in old Europe girl has
chance of getting out Of her life per-
haps more experience and at least the
same amount of pleasure as the Amer
lean girl does, although in a way en-
tirely different; this is the girl who
attends a university for men and en-
Joys in the old world, among hundreds
of men, the perfect freedom of move
ment and the feeling of independence
which characterize the happy life or
the American college girl (happy in
that she realizes by herself an ideal
of free and intelligent life, without the
inevitable strain which comes to the
same life when lived by one girl
among a crowd Of mem.
The chief characteristic Of the Amer
lean woman's college is we'll defined,
the critic proceeds, by the historical
words, life, liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness"
To the college girls happiness many
elements are cooperating, among
which, notably, are papa's checks and
the advantages depending thereon:
faculty votes forbidding schedule OF
over SO many hours week or more
than q certain number of courses for
the semester; constant anxiety on the
part of "Prex" and IN. 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 effects of study on the health
OF the students. Eve may moan. sigh
or revolt" says the writer; 1--WE may
strike, protest or die in the attempt;
from the serene Olympus of the faculty
the gods watch with calm unrufiied
brow the struggle of the nonentities
down in the halls of learning"