Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-21
CRYN MAWR GIRLS
FAIL TO FIND JOY IN
SKATING MINUS PROFS
Field Still Furnishes
leo to Girl Students, but
Since Instructors Left
Hands Are Too Cold
MARRIAGE is TO BLAME

ree. they remain dsconsolate.
s,oret was let out today when Bill
..nuertheim r pulled UP his team In front
,,o pryn Mawr postofilce, where Josh
..,or,on was standing. aching to pass
! ne time of day. 80, ,,,
"v nrnor, nav college girls" vouchsafed BIZ,
-. ono eve souinted at the sky, may
,.re @ some skatin' soon! Whoa! An then
,s,n they mayn't."
's~ n',.hho they will an mebbe they
~, !" declared Josh boldly. But them
Nom nerfesser fellers won't Haw-
gov" .bav-haw!" Bill replied. "Didja
.bo latest one bout thatY
-. An saw in the village-for the cen
ny ~ Rryn Nawr College is stricter than
49, In Europe-that the most modern
.hUd NJ skating provided for the college
rirls along with the most inoderh Ior,ns
81 S,,.nr,tbing else, has failed to render
any, less inconsolable over the loss
u,noir uea handsome and intellectual young
Wsa,,iipe professors as skating partners.
r,. oata strophe fell out of clear, cold
49,, ,,yo winters ago. But, as It's SAID,
~ nv tbourhts of youth are long, long
,sershts. absence makes the heart grow
,"eSe- and distance lends enchantmenti
NnS aver since then the college authori-
~ have racked their brains to make
,sating so alluring that the college stu
s,nts should forget their absent teach
srs
p,, ;,,s no use. Not even n skating rink
,rrlnkled on the landscape with hose Is
sslm for the wounded hearts.
4, former years skating at Bryn Mawr
"a. romantic. The pond on the lower
,smnus. set In valley fringed oy the
cothlc halls of Bryn Mawr. trees ana the
..,,donces of the young professors, was
.oysred with the gliding figures of Bryn
Wswr girls and the inhabitants of the
.as,dcnees They usually skated In pairs.
This was for the warmth that goes with
a bIp paIr of hands, for the air was cold
rsrhaps too some of the girls coulunt
h uninstructed in skating any more than
IN calculus or Sanskrit.
Hearts were warm. II the air was cold.
And there was tho trouble. Mixing
chemicals in the laboratory became pre-
earious when eyes met. Greek verbs be-
came terribly tangled when eyes met.
Ceometrc figures became grotesque when
syes met Worse than that, some or the
vonng women interested were heiresses
and the instructors merely intellectual
And, worst of ALL marriage occurred.
Dr. NJ Carey Thomas, president OF the
college ssued pronunciamento, forbid
ding the young preceptors from skating
with their pupils.
The tiny rivulet which fed the pond
could have dried UP for all tho use It
vas Skating ceased abruptly.
This winter to revive the dead inter
,st in skating, the college authorities in
troduced n skating innovation, something
unheard OF so far south as Bryn Mawr.
There Ia no skating pond, but on freezing
cold nights workmen, under the direction
Of Thomas Foley, superintendent,
sprlnkle the lower hockey field with a
hose. The girls skate on tho field of
smooth. fresh Ice the next day without
any danger of breaking through.
But their hearts are not In 6ns sport
The professors are skating do. n at Hav-
srtord or at ST. David's, or maybe they're
reading Browning in their studies.