Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-06-02
Bryn Mawr, vassar and WeIIes-
ley Unable to Accommodate
All Who Apply for
Admission.

with a serious situation. There is not
room enough for all who wish to go to
the leading eastern colleges for young
women.
1t is admitted at Vassar that they
have not the room nor the equipment
to care for all who apply for admis-
sion. This pressure by students has
brought the college to the parting
OF the ways. At the annual meeting in
June the trustees will decide whether
| Vassar is to remain limited institu-
ton or is to broaden it's field of effort
and open it's doors to the immense list
of women who want to go to college
Wellesley is already facing the fact
that its freshmen and sophomore
classes are boarding near the college
and going in for their lessons because
it has not room and space to take
charge of those who have gained adj
| mission.
Bryn Mawr announces that it has
room next year for only 80 more stu
dents in addition to the number that
are now at the college. 1t. like all the
other colleges, has a long list of appli-
Giants for 191O-1911.
| 1t has raised it's tuition and board
from $500 upward, and Vassar has done
the same, but this has not checked the
firm and large movement of girls to-
ward college and the higher education.
Bryn Mawr to Place 100.
Bryn Mawr has a graduating class
this year of 10. and when the members
of it go out their places can be filled
with new applicants who have sue
ments. This, in addition TO the 80
more students who can be accommo-
dated at the college. will give room for
100 students. 1t would not be possible
for Bryn Mawr to enroll as students
the number of girls that have applied
| for admission.
The demand for entrance is equally
stronger at Nassar, and 1t is for this
reason that the most important ques-
ton to be taken up by the board of
trustees at their annual meeting in
June will be the question of arranging
to open the college gates to u greater
number of students
The board of trustees limited this
number at Nassar to 1000. This was
found to be advisable several wears
ago. when the college began to grow
faster than the dormitory facilities ex-
banded, and the students were scat
tered around in nearby boarding houses
and in leased buildings The faculty
viewed with distaste the division OF
the college community into two parts
one off and the other on the campus.
Mrs. j. Ryland Kendrick the prin-
cipal at Vassar In talking of this di-
vision, which is not approved. said they
enough living rooms on the campus
for the girls. This one was followed
by another. which was instantly filled
up
After each dormitory was filled the
applications for admission doubled
Then two other dormitories We're put
up and again was the application list
doubled She thought the reason was
in the fact that the more girls they
had the more enthusiasm they aroused
among other girls, and that 1t resulted
in an endless chain.
Therefore Vassar college must take
up the question seriously. Its student
body is limited to 1000, and it faces
the problem of either turning away
hundreds of girls who want to get adj
mission or putting up more dormi-
tories and throwing the college open Il
q broader student life. go
vassar's College Family.
Mrs. Kendrick feels that Vassar grad
yates have distinctive stamp and tn,
college should keep this. If the girls d.
not reflect these qualities that Vassal
seeks to inspire in them the work is
failure. Some years ago when thu
growth of the college was on a startlint
increase the problem that 1t had L
meet was how many students 1t coult
take and preserve it's college homege
neity. Should 1t spread and finally be
come like Oxford, series of college.
in distinct and separated communities
The decision was to preserve as fa
as might be the Vassar spirit and at
mosphere. The first step toward thi
was to abandon the practice OF per
hitting the students to board outsid,
the college ground and to provid,
homes for them on the campus 1T wa
during this discussion that 1t was foun,
necessary to limit the college famil,
to 1000. This has reduced the numbe
of boarding out students to about 10
out of total attendance of 1,O4O
Girls are admitted to Vassar at tn
age of 16. but the average age of tn
, Vassar freshmen is 18. The freshman
, class starts out with $50 MEMBERS blu
this number is reduced for various rea