The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-10
AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRL.
She Has Much More Freedom than Her
 European Sister.

She Has Much More Freedom than Her
 European Sister.
 The American woman's college is thing wholly amazing in European eyes,
 according to the critic. No European
 educational institution would think of lallowing to it's inmates such a luxuri- ousness of surroundings as appears in the, American girls college room, the
 extreme simplicity of the food being the only thing common to both types of educational community.
 To the uninitiated beholder, the Amercan college girls room, with flags and posters and sporting souvenirs 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 It 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 ob-
 server as peculiar.
 All this corresponds with a radical
 difference in the life of women students in America and in Europe. The Euro pean girl goes to her university purely for learnig, ad in the lower educational 1 institutions 1t is the same Study Is l the business of life, and only those for tunate ones who have friends and rela- tives to take them out occasionally and give them good time ever get any fun. In America the college is a school of life, with all sorts of activities besides lstudy The European college girl has l to find out after she leaves college ev-= lerything that her American sister learns while at college, though occa- lsionally in old Europe a girl has a chance of getting out of her life per- lhaps more experience and at least the
 same amount of pleasure as the Ameri- I can girl does, although in a way entire- fly different; this is girl who attends a university for men and enjoys in the IOld World, among hundreds of men, l the perfect freedom of movement and 1 the feeling of independence which char iacterize the happy life of the Amerl- ICan COIl6SG SlTl NAdppS III lAlctt SHE lG-- alizes by herself an ideal of free and in- lteIligent life, without the inevitable strain which comes to the same life when lived by one girl among a crowd of men.)
 The chief characteristic of the Ameri- | can wornan's college is we'll defined, the critic proceeds, by his historical words, life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness..' VI To the college girls happiness many dement's are cooperating, among which otably are papa's checks and the ad- lntages depending thereon: faculty !, votes forbidding schedule of over so Imany hours week or more than a cer- ltain number of courses for the semes- Eter; constant anxiety on the part of "Prex and .M. D. lest the young buds of hope break down under the strain of Istudy, and so forth.
 This last appears particularly strange to the European mind. No one gives a thought there, 1t appears, to the ef- fleets of study on the health of the stu dents. We may moan, sigh or re- volt" says the writer, i've may strike, protest or die in the attempt; from the serene Olympus of the faculty the gods Iwatch with calm, unruffied brow the struggle of the nonentities down in the N Ihalls of learning. ."--Outlook.