The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-26
RAMPANT COLLEGE GIRLS

ries and contests of wit that heln en- liven the school year from beginning to end. The sophs at Cornell are cha srined If the freshies manage to pull off an evening picnic beside Triphammer falls, on Dcebe lake, without sophomore approval or interference. and when the rejoicing fire shies have the unmitigated nerve to parade back in lock-step forma- tion singing. Were Here Because We're Here" and march around the gym. it is provocation enough to warrant the sophs stealing thelr dining room and compelling the presumptuous freshies to eat where they can-which is in the main dining room, so there is no harm done to their hungry bodies, though their spirits may suffer.
 But usually even the most trying of college ordeals are less serious affairs so far as horse play goes, and more elabo- rate in their planning When rush, like the famous hair rush of the co-eds at the University of Cincinnati, happens it is generally impromptu, as that was
 A group of Ogontz, Pa, students, who some years ago had one last. new girl from the west to initiate before the school year could be considered properly under way
 The western girl had lodged and evaded ther-i and meanwhile delighted all the students, old and new, with her imita- tions of the schools woman principal At midnight, with the halls darkened the olde- girls prepared a full bath of cold water and lay in wait for the last victim. When the steps they exnected sounded along the hall, they rushed her and haled her to the icy bath.
 The shocked tones of the principals voice bade them desist. But they had heard the western girls limitations too often to be scared. Into the tub went the prisoner-a thorough sousing. Then an electric light was turned on.
 Well. they had made a mistake; it was the principal, all right.
 The fodl spirit of woman'S college can be seen, and 8 total absence of these torture cha mbcr ideals, when the girls give masquerade, that delight of the feminine soul Even so serious an insti- tuition as the Wcmans Medical college, in Philadelphia, can produce an exclusively feminine masquerade party that draws the male element as honey draws flies; yet bars them at the doors, as though Adam alone had been shut out of Eden The freshmen students there, one year. had turned tle 'ables on the sophs and mad rushed them until new clothes were needed for nearly the whole soph class Remorse came late but not too late to bar the opportunity for making amends The following year the promoted fresh l men as sophs, paid for the big spread to which the promoted sophs. as juniors, sat | down after the masquerade and dance. | But if was manless festival through out. The escorts who brought the danc- ters to the college building had to stand outside and sb'ver. When a crowd of students from medical colleges arrived and | demanded admission in the name of science. they were bidden depart with all | haste. Even the band that furnished the music was In anoher room and rumor had
 1t that they were blindfolded and chained
 to the floor. The dance had all the joy
 of complete freedom from trammels and
 the tledgings woman doctors had the time of their lives.