The San Francisco call., 1907-01-06

Our night watchman was a dear
said the Smith girl enthusiastically
There was a lovely balcony In our
dormitory. and the night before tns
junior prom last May my chum and 1
were sitting out there, snifang tns
night smells and chatterinS- ms
watchman came along and stopped ano
talked to US. and he liked US. and
brought us early peaches from tne
peach orchard. We let down Tam o
Shanters by strings and he nlled them
for u.s. So we sat all night and ate
peaches and bayed the moon 1t was
lovely oh. but. by the way, sne
went on, laughing. speaking OF the 1O
o'clock Tights out rule. must tell you
the wicked trick they played on me
once. It was aprOpOs of fussing
know that's our name for men callins
on us. There was man calling on me-
a very nice one that I'd been looKlhs
forward to seeing for two weeks, ana
those beasts of girls rang the prepara-
ton belP at instead of twenty min
utez to TO- thought the evening had
beSu very short. And when / got up
stairs and saw the clock / was ready
to kill somebody"
THAT sort of thing happens even at
Radcliffe" said the fair damsel from
Cambridge, laughing. i remember the
way some of the class chaperoned one
girl who they thought needed it-a
girl who was always fussing. They
hid themselves in the reception room 10
Bertram Hall and watched the girl and
her man caller the whole evening! Sne
could see them, but he couldn't, and ne
couldn't imagine why she was so nerv-
-ous!'
What! Dignifed Radcliffe STOPPING
to thatr' exclaimed the Vassar girl
ooh, we're not so awfully dignihed,
laughed the Radcliffe girl; "at least not
all the time. You ought to see US at
one of our lectures. It's very dull and
dreadful, and the professor ,s rather
old and near sighted. So we bring our
sewing and novels and sit behind the
desks having lovely t1me!
Her Faint Expensive
''Why, that's what we do, toos'' cried
the Smith girl. And, oh, I wish you
could have been at our Biblical litera-
ture class one day. The professor was
a kind, fussy little man and easily
upset One OF the girls tainted and
was dragged to the front OF the lee
ture-room, looking as white as ghost
The little professor was so horrihed
room was too hotl That girl got twen-
ty ice cream sodas for her nerve In
carrying her fake faint through so sue
cessfully. We all met at the K. k
our copper kettle tea and Ice cream
room, you know-and treated her In
instaIlmentsI"
But the girl from Ohio hasn't spoken
yet cried the girl from wellesley.
How about pranks in your collegeT'
There was an embarrassed silence,
and the girl from the Wesleyan coed
ucationa1 got red Then one OF the
others began to talk OF something else,
and the wellesley girl remembered,
with a rush of CONSERVATION, what she
should have remembered before. that
the subject OF hazing was forbidden
one in Delaware. Ohio, where the CO.
educational existed. Some years ago
Ohio was convulsed by the outrages
committed in the girls dormitories OF
the great Wesleyan University; there
were even now girls in different parts
OF the country who have still upon
their necks and shoulders the marks
that had been burned there with nj
trate of silver, when the sophomore
class of girls wished to effectually pre-
vent the freshmen from wearing
evening dress at college functions
Its queer" said the Radcliffe girl.
hale 70 herself when another little
silence had fallen. Our whole coll
lege principle is to look out for the
freshmen instead of bothering them, to
help instead of hindering them, to make
them happy insted of miserable, and
1 really think we live up to it pretty
well. Yet in little ways the spirit OF
teasing will out, like our annoying that
poor fusser, for instance. and things
OF that kind 1 think girls, like boys,
must be savages at heart"
And I know they are" said Vassar.
II can be loyal to my alma mater again.