Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-02-27
LIFE, LIBERTY, PLEASURES
An American College G!rrs Existence
Compared to That of al Eu-
Iopean Coed.

In recent number Of The Outlook
European university girl makes an IN.
teresting comparison between the Amer
can college girl ana her European com
terpart, which is not wholly to the disa.l
vantage OF the former.
According TO tins critic, the Anlpricai,
woman.s college is a thing wholly amaz-
ing in European eyes
No European educational institution
would think OF allowing to its inmates
such luXuriousness of surroundings AZ
appears IN the American girls college
room, the extreme simplicity of the food
being the only thing common TO both
types of educational community.
10 the uninitiated beholder the Amer
can college girls room, with flags AMI
posters ana sporting souvenirs and class
symbols, with mems pictures Oh desk
ana dressing tables, might be college
boy :. On the other side of the ocean
young women are supposed not TO keen
young mems portraits in their rooms.
just as they are not supposed to meet on
equal terms of comraGeship the subjects
OF the aforesaid pictures. The absence or
books IN the room and the conspicuous
presence of candy boxes and fruit bas-
kets might also strike the European Oh
server as peculiar.
All this corresponds with radical dit,
ference in the Fife of women students
IN America and in Europe. The Ell
rGpean girl goes to her university pure,
ly for learning and in the lower edu-
cational institutions it is the same
Study is the business of life. ana only
those fortunate ones who have friends
and relatives to take them ont occa-
slonally and give them good time ever
get any fun.
In America the college is school Of
HE, with all sorts of activities besides
study The European college girl has
to tina out after she leaves college every
thing that her American sister learns
while at college, though occasionally in
Old Europe girl has chance of get
ting out of her life perhaps more ey-
perience and at least the same amount
OF pleasure as the American girl does
although in way entirely different.
this IS the girl who attends a university
for men and enjoys in the Old World.
among hundreds of men, the perfect free,
dom of movement and the feeling of in
dependence which characterize the hap
by life of the American college girl Chap
Ply in that she realizes by herself an
ideal of free and intelligent fife. with
out the inevitable strain which comes
to the same life when lived by one sill
among crowd of mem.
The chief characteristic of the Amer.
can Woman'S college is we'll defined. the
life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" To the college girls happiness
many elements are cooperating, among
which, notably, are papa'S checks ana
the advantages depending thereon; facul-
~ votes prohibiting a schedule Of over
so many hours Il week, or mure than Il
certain number of courses for the Sc
mester; 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
thought there, it appears, to the effects
of study on the health of the students.
We may moan sigh or revolt" says
the writer, we may strike, protest or
die in the attempt; from the serene
Olympus of the faculty the gods watch
with calm. nnruffied brow the struggle
of the nonentities in the halls OF learn
ing