Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-04-13
COLLEGE GIRLS I'M EUROPE.
There Is Great Difference Between
Their Surroundings and Those Of
Students in This Country.

In some respects college girls in all
parts of the world are similar in dis
position, ambitions and desires, but
those of Europe have many characters
tics wholly dissimilar to those possessed
by the American girl of eridition. The
American woman's college is a thing
wholly amazing in European eyes, says
IN educational journal. No European
educational institution would think of
allowing it's inmates such a luxurious
tess of surroundings as appears In the
American girls college room, the exI
IRENE simplicity of the food being the
only thing common to both types of edu-
,ational community.
To the uninitiated beholder the
American college girls room, with flags
lEd posters and sporting souvenirs and
class symbols, with mems pictures on
desks and dressing table, might be al
eollege boys. On the other side of the
ocean young women are 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
md fruit baskets might also strike the
European observer as peculiar
All this corresponds with radical diff
erence in the life of women students in
America and Europe The European
girl goes to her university purely for
earning. and in the lower educational
Institutions it is the same Study Is
he business of life, and only those for
:unate ones who have friends and rela-
ives to take them out occasionally and
Five them good time ever get any fun.
In America the college is a school Of
fife. with all sorts of activities besides
study. The European college girl has
to find out after she leaves college every
ching that her American sister learns
while at college, though occasionally in
Did Europe a girl has chance of getting
but of her life more experience and at
least the same amount of pleasure as
The American girl does, although in a
way entirely different; this is the girl
who attends a university for men and
Enjoys in the old world. among hundreds
If men, the perfect freedom of move
nent and feeling of independence which
characterizes the happy life of the
American college girl (happy in that
Ihe realizes by herself an ideal of free
Ind intelligent life without the inevita-
Ole strain which comes to the same life
when lived by one girl among a crowd
If men).
The chief characteristic of the Ameri-
an woman's college is we'll defined, the
critic proceeds. by the historical words
life, liberty ard the pursuit of hap.
piness." To the college girls happiness
many elements are cooperating, among
which, notably, are papa's checks and
the advantages depending thereon; fac
atty votes prohibiting schedule of over
20 many hours a week or more II" Il a
certain number of courses for the
temester; constant anxiety on the part
If "PreX" and an D." lest the young
buds OF hope break down under the
strain Of study, and so forth.
This last appears particularly strange
the European mind. No one gives
thought there, it appears, to the effects
Of study on the health of the students.
I'VE may moan, sigh or revolt" says the
ErittT; 1--WE may strike, protest or Gle
Ill the attempt: from the serene Olym-
pus Of the faculty the gods watch with,
.alm. unruff1ed brow the struggle of the
amenities down in the halls of learn.
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