The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-09

ago have entered into the bonds mat
rimOnial, and that a large proportion
of the graduates of Zach class since
then have done likewise. ] doubt il
any graduating class of tassar, Wei
lesley, Smith, or Pryn MaWr can show
as good a record.
In addition to this the alumni as
ISOLATION has q dairy, gardens, u
chicken yard and q cake-making es-
Adjustment 1t runs a grocery store
and in all Of these institutions il en-
ploys the tudents who to a large cx-
tent carr their way through school
OF the graduates eight have re
Gently gone to China to teach. end
about one hundred are teaching in
Japan. Others are reporters and
go ternment clerks. Some are EN-
ployed in the railway Offices, some in
the libraries and nine are studying
social reform.
Eight Hundred College Girls.
If l remember correctly Byrn Mawr
has something like six hundred stu
dents. . Vassar has over q thousand.
Wellesley twelve hundred and Smith
fifteen hundred. The institution has
now thirteen hundred in attendance.
but about five hundred of hase should
be put in the preparatory classes, as
lht.6 aIe branches OF the s hOOl run
ing down to the kindergarten. This
leaves about eight hundred in the uni
versity proper, which is an excellent
showing for a college only eight
years old. AZ far as 1 can judge the
ages of the students are about the
same as those of our college girls. I
have a Smith College girl Of the
sophomore class travelling with me.
and in order to show tn. respective
sizes OF the college girls of the tW )
naIions, / tool a snapshot OF three of
these Japanese sophomOres with the
Smith sophomore standing beside
them. They are as a ufe consider
ably shorter h u girls, but
through their athletics promise soon
to become quite as robust.
Higher Education for Women.
I was taken through the buildings
by Miss Hirano. the professor Of
ethics, a charming woman who spoke
English perfectly. We went through
classI DOM after classroom. each filled
with bright looking students either re
citing or listening to lectures. In
one hall there were a hundred seniors
taking dow the notes of q lecture on
sociology, and in others we listened
to classes being taught literature.
psychology and ethics. There are
three courses in the university pre-
paratory university and postgraduate.
The university proper has three de-
partments. One Is devoted to DO
mestic science. another u Japanese
literature and another to English Tit
erature Ehe department OF domestic
science covers such things as ethics.
psychology, pedagogy, psychology.
economics, law and science, and
! art, as well as physics. chemistry and
the other natural sciences. The 9th
er two departments are still broader.
and there are many elective courses
Of study.
The work done seems to me thor
ough. / spent some time in the
chemical laboratories watching the
girls analyzing substances Of various
kinds. They have a half dozen or
more large rooms, well equipped with
such appliances, and they are doing
some original work. In one room.
for instance, I was shown some thou
sands of bottles comprising analyses
made by these girls Of all the foods
of Japan, vegetable and animals.
Who knows but that the Nine. Curie
OF the next generation may not hGve
a yellow skin and slant eyes!
In The Dormitories.
The dornitories of this university
are especially Interesting. There
are t~wenty-seven Of them, divided up
into little rooms, each or which is
occupied by from two to four stu
dents. Some of the dormitories are
purely Japanese. In these the girls
sleep on the floor. lying on futons or
comforts. which they pack away IN
closets during the day time. They
rest their necks on japanese pillows,
mere blocks Of woods. bou the
size Of a brick. with a roll of soft It's
sue paper on top. The floors OF all
the dormitories are covered with mats
about an inch thick, SO white and
clean that one would not fear to eat
off of them.
Other dormitories have mattresses
on low shelves, SO arranged that the
! beds are covered with boards during
the day time. Then they serge as
tables and desks. The girls take care
of their own rooms and do all the
homework. n servant only being in
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