Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-19
The Girls Opportunity.

The character of the girls colleges IN
our country is much more generally
known than that of boarding schools
The colleges are few in number. and 10
their proceedings is given n degree of
publicity not accorded the proceedings
of smaller educational enterprises There
are boarding schools and boarding
schools. Investigation cannot be too
careful before placing girl in one of
them. The best offer advantages of an
admirable kind. The courses of study,
while not so diverse as those of college,
are particularly adapted to feminine
tastes, while the accomplishments which
tend to make social life more interesting
and agreeable are given large share
of attention. History, literature, the
modern languages, music and drawing
have perhaps the foremost places in the
curriculum. Many eff these schools are
in cities where opportunities are given,
under proper chaper0nage, for girls to
see the best theatrical performances and
to hear concerts OF value. In these
schools girls come into more intimate re-
lations with their teachers than is pos
sible in a college, and they are also much
more strictly chaperoned. Matters of
form and department, details of manner,
so far as it can be taught, are given
thought and attention, often with happy
results. One may say that a girl should
learn these things at home, but some
times her surroundings are not favorable,
and again she needs the impetus of just
such cficism as she receives at a good
boarding school to make her aware of
the value of form. The aim of a good
boarding school is to make of a girl an
attractive member of society as well as
to make her mentally appreciative
A woman's college offers much wider
sphere for a girls energies and abilities
fha hoo Oh ahA
loves study, is fond of athletics, and is
interested in large variety of human
nature, college is the place for her.
Here she has a chance for the develop
ment of her best meEtal powers De-
pertinent is not one of the unwrltten
branches of the curriculum as it is in a
what it is in boarding schools il is not -
is taught by the social pre-eminence Of
those who bring the best breeding with
them. Though the surveillance is NOT
what it is in boarding school, it is not 50
necessary, because the girls are some-
what older than those in boarding
schools, and because the sentiment Of the
students generally is for law and order
The best-known girls colleges in the
United States are situated i'm the couU-
try, and the opportunity thus given for
sport and for a healthy appreciation of
nature is an invaluable asset for those
institutions. At no time in life is the
love OF beauty at once so delicate ana
so keen as III those years when one is
eligible to college life. TO foster this
perhaps latent appreciation by a direct
contact with the beauties Of nature is 0he
Of the opportunities offered by Bryn
Mawr. Nassar, Wellesley, Smith and oJh-
or well known womens colleges.
The three or Tour years in college
among a hundred or more other girls
often forms one of the happiest and most
fruitful periods OF a girls life. She
makes interesting ana valuable frieHd-
ships. Often her knowledge Of the world
IS broadened by visits paid her school
mates in vacation time. The advantages
she derives from properly directed study
are great: the advantages in other dIree-
tons are possibly greater. 4 woman coz
lege Is a little world IN which every yaTie-
ty of femininity may be observed. The lie
there gives opportunity for the develop
ment Of the most diverse talents. Any
sort Of capability eventually finds scope
for action in college life. The serious
and the recreative sides Of life each ind
expression there. 4 girl who lends her
self freely to the opportunities of college
! life should quit its doors prepared for
social and domestic life. aud able also
60 take care Of herself financially ii emef-
| gencies require.
The comparative cost Of college and
| boarding school life is often an important
/ point 10 the matter Of deciding q girls
educational destination. The best board
/ ing schools are more expensive than the
colleges. 50 far as formal expenditure y
concerned. \ girP's personal expenses,