Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-24
Letters to t'e Editor of the Page
Address all communications Miles

Dear MLlss-A word in reference to your artI
sle Of u, FEtdsy, May 10. am a graduste Q
protest strenuousiy against the attitude you an,
Miss Sutton take on the question Of uniform
while most members of my class were and arr
seran II % I end viii pr in svor tT5 Of mnoT
Eobs for graduation. This has come to Wes
sraoefs robes 8 witch We gu
ss a. SST tTansS s
shows that YOU have never attended our com
sd Ren that you SS 50 viii w
ns Tssn on attfnd ten tn eserSsss c 9 s
effect a. Grsslan r2bed gTSdyates and the motley
Eatheribs "'''''""' ''O
You have often held up to seoEn poor taste in
taste Il sesctinE sraduaton So GOWNS T spoil R tRs
81 ATTENDED the exercises f q West
February. 1915. and the first 10 adopt the uni
sse cGof % se 'f rs sh scSdS e & 9s
sprinS Garden streets class ,i 9f 1915 The som- com
Uniform robes also do not make the commence
cannot AFFORD to spend much money for a srsdu,
opn girls % may iSr asTee sSa TSs to
few OF them keep their agreement. / know this.
ss Sutton ' ~ much @ %s5ssn %sn
gRs hsT TqbS E sS sFf ia ne
and foIowns the exereses remoyed ther iu robes
only g ind by the time they had completed ths
sre vas % 70 SHOW show OF beere TFsn toq
%ao SO Upon Il at e S
commencement
s.ooss highly esteemed ,RFnGlPH Mr. PsTke
gssting this feature, which the first class at
iuss as soon as Mr.. schoch pointed out It's mani,
Dear MLissEsome years ago a very CAPABLE
WAS then the commercial department of the
High school for Girls at nth and Spring Gar;
E 6eh school scEoo a N PRiisdephis hi the nrS'
:. For its day and genssratiOn that was splep.
she school itself has been out ot existence since
AS columns hSve seea cSmmeTefaI IN f Hs
School graduate preferred"
HsowsyeT timsEs change and sohoos AN, and
cally In the last ten years.
&c Out o. the Gd PaT n Hgh aSo School EreE
4 composite school. the very newest type OF
= Il Will prepare girl for any college in the
United TI eSewhfre se fb Or That mater
mai Il School ssi.s' S''A '0f tue fHi'Aas'ph'" NOT
!, i has an excellent domestic science course
nd that IS o eSns
for girls who wish 70 teach houSehold economics
It has a splendid course in saeamanship.
Inog .Ss r. because ;sa took 4; 60. ,,,- . :.
6neSa OF these courses takes four yssTs TO
Esan they adapt the work 70 the sirI. ri not f Vce
hs RSspl TS. yS Ss each
oSsh veil round high sshooi tranns raj sn0f
The William Penn High School Alumnae has
~ endowed bed 10 the Medeo Chi Hos
IN hs % Honse In aS S Sesss SeaS we
expect % buy a clubhouse.
resliy have on On my N.Y. mind = s''i'l1 " "A@'
tr6 MSS Voss B. sutton of e od 's 4
street school anent the subject OF graduation
& t ike one So Or to two ehoa sas' h s
ssnsral tone Of the letter as whole. This para
The lldsa q the college cap and gown such
was eonsdered By most t~SP d the girls to be sS
fcrf Why pretend tend, 70 be, be what one Is not
completing her course there Is certain glamour
ss Of hSo e Where s0s S S &
two courses , ssneral and classical
Melody pretends that such uniform Is a
car sna ANA IS saPposs the ETs
CHOSE # because they could think q no other
Then that glamour" as agnoys me consider;
that William Penn commercial girls have an
sdqeatlpn and home training just az good as the
sntsf high school; That they Specialize a dinsr-
M ne slrs tSemseIves - we commsron 5lsis r
40 POI neesssaTiy have poor breeding, and cheap
BY What she T. pleased 70 can the
5n,sftes Of faet don't bslieve sueh a thoushf
zx5E occurred to the girls who adopted this
Thsn she speaks OF their two courses I've
told you about our nye so II refrain from com
sissi q tks i'm stree, ,slrIs 20 into teaching
'nefeisI slris 80 into business. speakins from
tn eniirsly unpretudieed Standpoint ! think the
luniiy % girls Tor bigger work. broader minds
and certainly more money. That however. Is |
l1areiE M own View OF the matter.
bat 70 get back 10 the uniforms. There are |
Iiri1 IN the William Penn Hlsh School who |
'onldn't 90 70 high school at ali II they ssrs |
IHI supplied with carfare from q special fund. |
tftt 1enay Il after they leace SCHOOL,. They |
|re Eifla who want hish school training IN fhs /
E1raI azy. and who certainly deserve % Est III |
g 3 tef firls such as thess-and thsre are = /
Though Aiiss kioletta 3. Sutton u evidently i
~ aaze of the fact, every siri does not Est Z /