Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-06-02
NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN
COLLEGES FOR GIRLS

sons until the graduates number about
higher, which Is accounted for by the
rather remarkable return in September
of old students
Mrs. Kendrick evidently feels con-
fident from her experience that 1000
represents the limit Of successful COM
munity life in college: When the
number is larger than that she con-
siders it doubtful if it is possible to
preserve the atmosphere and spirit
that should be retained in college,
and which is tradition at Vassar.
No one would think" she says. "of
creating mammoth college and at
tempting to preserve the features that
popular. When college gets too big it
is necessary to divide it, as at Oxford.
But we don't want to do that here
at Nassar We want every girl who
comes here to be Vassar girl and car
~ away with her those distinctive
traits and marks that are recognized
as belonging to her. So we prefer to
keep out homogeneous grouping
Raising the Charges.
Just what the outcome will be at the
annual meeting in June no one knows.
Some of the trustees favor restriction
and others want a larger college. 1t is
difficult to tell which sentiment has the
most adherents. 1t is probable that
President TAYLOR does not know what
action will be taken. There is one thing
certain Ii Vassar is to become mann
moth university for women. it will need
many times the dormitories 1t has to-
day. 1t now needs another one to pro-
vide room for the roster as 1t stands
today
Originally, all the students at Vas
sar were housed in the main building,
,in1,
and chapel. Both of the latter are
provided for in spacious buildings on
the grounds. The main building is filled
with students and In addition there are
six large dormitories on the quad
rangle, each filled to the shingles.
The high price of living has added
largely to the expense of Vassar this
board and tuition was raised from $500
to $500. Since then the cost OF food
has greatly increased.
Bryn Mawr has never considered the
idea of raising it's student list to any
such number as thousand. 1t has
entirely by the number of girls 1t
could adequately care for. 1t does not
accept over 425 students so far.
| Unlike Nassar and Wellesley, it will
not allow it's students to live in board
| Ing houses or community buildings or
board with private families off the
campus.
Bryn Mawr's Strict Entrance.
| The only exceptions it makes to this
stringent rule is that it will allow a
i student to live at her own home near
| the college. This exception to the rule
was made because the college at Bryn
Mawr is situated in the most beautiful
and fashionable part of this city's
country life, where great numbers of
Il1.Sf f.,,, 1i,,<,
for Philadelphians copy the English
mode of life. They spend little time in
the city. being quite content to go in
! for few weeks or month or two
during the height of the social season.
and even this plan is ON the decrease
since motors have become an almost
necessary appendage
Another rule which differentiatcs
Bryn Mawr from all other American
colleges for women is that it's appli-
cants for admission are enrolled as
students only after they have passed
a strict entrance examination. The
Harvard examination is used. 1t takes
pass it, and hundreds fail where
| dozens enter.
Nassar, on the other hand, does not
have an entrance examination, but ac-
Icepts its applicants for admission as
students on a school certificate This
HAco u gun OI ul1IeTeHCe DeIWeef
Bryn Mawr and all the other col.
lcges. 1t is. therefore. always q prob.
able fact that the applicant list viii
far exceed any list of the students
that are taken. The examinations
which are quite difficult. weed out the
large number. 1t is the survival OF
the fittest.
1t is easy to be seen with these two
restrictions. the entrance examination
and compulsory living on the campus
the Bryn Mawr remains an exclusive
institution. The fact that 1t can take
Ionly 30 more students this year over
what 1t now has, or 100 after its grad
uating class Is out. proves that 1t is
running to capacity. and that the
wedding out OF its long applicant lis,
in June at the entrance examination
will be serious and difficult task.
y 1t is not thought at either of thes,
colleges that the woman's sufrrag,
movement has anything to do with tn,
large and forcible demand for admis
sion by women for the next colleg,
year. 1t is believed, however, that tn,
general woman movement all over tn,
world is giving an impetus to colleg,
work.
1t is womans day. She Is on tn,
crest of the wave. She is in the lime
Hight.