The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-16
COLLEGES CROWDED.
ENTRANCE TO woMEN's INsTI-
TUTEs VERY DIFFICULT.
Not Only Lack Of Room But Strict
ness In Regard 70 Health and
Other Regulations Are
Barriers

8ettlng INTO one or the WOmen'S col
leges these days is a serious undertaking.
The most popular OF them are 80 crowd
ed that only part of those who are pre-
pared to enter can be admitted. This
makes situation exactly the reverse of
that which prevails in mems colleges
says the New York Sun, where every
student who can pass the examination
and meet the perfunctory requirements
as to moral character is welcomed.
Several of the women's colleges re-
quire that those who intend to matricu-
late in particular year shall give notice
to that effect three or four years before
hand Thus it is pretty well known for
several years in advance what are the
prospects for students. and the colleges
are able to maintain their standards of
scholarship.
Physical health also 10 more strictly
insisted upon in the women's colleges
than in the mems. Nearly all schools.
at least OF the higher grade, are now in
sisting as never before upon the health
OF pupils.
A physician is often attached TO the
gymnasium, sometimes a. general su-
perintendent of physical culture. and
upon his advice the pupils often cut down
their school work or for time alto
gether give 1t up. At the women's col
leges the relation of physical health to
general education 10 felt to be so i'm
portant that very close watch 10 kept
upon those who enter college and upon
all students throughout their whole
course.
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those who have been for several years
registered as prospective matriculates
Of the women's colleges result IN thin
ming out the numbers. but the places of
those who for physical reasons or for
failure to reach the standard Of scholar
ship are told to wait another year are
taken by applicants who have not been
registered 50 long.
Then the unlucky ones either give up
the race for the year or spend large part
of the summer In study for the autumn
examinations. or in special exercises
designed to improve their physical con-
dition. The girl who 10 rejected on ac-
count Of both physical Ill health and
lack Of mental preparation stands small
chance OF making up her double de-
| ficiency
Those students who have been long
est registered enjoy at some OF the wom-
enc colleges special advantages. Ger
tain favorite dormitories are quickly
filled up by the long registered students.
| In some cases there is room in the
| campus dormitories for only those who
| have applied far in advance and late
corners have to lodge outside the college
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favorite dormitories are much envied
by the outsiders, and some perents con-
!. slider 1t 80 important that their daugh-
tiers shall actually live within the col
legs grounds that they prefer that the
| girls shall wait year before entering.
| rather than have them exposed to the
Inconvenience and possible temptations
OF lodging outside.
| 1t IL even intimatsd that wealthy pa
rents sometimes pay Handsomely 10
lucky occupants Of ths dormitorfes Tor
an exhange Of rooms. A few parents,
on the other hand, believing that the
| dormitoriss are d4stracting. and perhaps
dangerous In their effect upon the
| nerves, prefer that their daughters shall
| live elsewhere
| The girl matnculats has one other
trouble that the boy sscapes-ths CUES
| ton Of clothes Most young men are
content to SO to college just little bet
ter dressed than at home but the girls
and their mothern must pass many trou-
bled hours In preparing the college
I trousssau.
At all the women's collegeS there 10
| q pretty wholesome spirit in the matter
| Of dress. and the authorities systematic
/ ally frown upon extavagancs; but every
| freshman enters college with some
| termors as to her outward appearance
| and there 10 q good deal OF comment upon
| the attire Of newcomers.