The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-01-21
CABARETS CAUSE
d COLLEGE GIRLS
TO QUIT SCHOOL

New York, Jan. 21-Visits to
Broadway cabarets and midnight
scampers up rear fire escapes into
darkened rooms of Whittier Hall at
Amsterdam avenue and One Hun
dred and Twentieth street, have ended
the scholastic career of four girl stu
dents of Teachers College. Columbia
University.
The girls all first year students,
are Misses Molly grandan of No. GIL
St Johns Place, Brooklyn; Marion
Hofford of Dallas, Tex; Hilda John
sen of Greenport, L. l., said to have
the largest allowance in the college,
and Georgia Teeple of Fort Morgan,
Col Miss Teeple was the only one
of the four left in the dornitory
! at Whittier Hall yesterday.
\ According to gossip at Columbia
{ Miss Crandall, Miss johnson and Miss
! Teeple had been found one night, be-
fore Christmas by the night watch
| man of the Hall, scaling up the
/ shadowy fire escape at the rear of
the building, one of their escorts help
/ ing them up. The escort descended,
! girls were summoned before Miss
Lucetta Daniel. Social Director, next
! day.
Discovered Another Entrance
Then. last Sunday night, Miss Hof-
! ford was discovered in the same feat
! by the same night watchman; the
/ first time she had ever used the fire
escape, it is said.
She left for her home early in
the week in response to a telegram
telling of the illness of a sister. 1t
was admitted by officials yesterday
that she was one of the four who had
been advised that they could not con-
tinue their studies next semester.
The girls were told that they might
go to other schools, to return to
Teachers College, for degrees after
two years of satisfactory behavior
ed. viii go to the Windymere School.
at Saratoga Springs The others, it
was said, had gone home.
A rule at Whittier Hall forbids
freshman girls to leave the dornlitory /
except on Friday, Saturday and Sun
day nights They are compelled, if
they return later than 1913 O'Clock, |
TO sign a register, giving an explana- /
ton, with the time of their passing /
the large iron gates.
The four girls, however, discover |
ed that a courtyard opening back |
from Ones Hundred and Twenty-first
street gave access to cement wall,
shoulder high, which adjoined two
AUDITING ends of the building at the
rear. They scaled this wall in some
fashion, walked down the sti1e steps
on its inside and were at the foot of
the fire-esca pes which lead up, in
dark, ang1ed recess, to all the floors.
Innocent Prank, Says official
Certain of the college officials were
Ioath to admit that the girls had been
asked to leave. A reporter was told /
that s.rnany girls left school at the
end of each semester because they
were not able to go on-4with their
work. Tt was also said that "some |.
of our girls seem to be more inter-
ested in seeing the gay side of New
York than in their classes
1t was finally admitted that the
girls had been told they could not re
main for the rest oftthe year. and had
not even been allowed to stay for
the rf1id-year examinations, which be-
gin in a few days.
1--WE never expel girls" one of the I
officials said, but when we find out
that girls are not equipped to finish II
the course or are not capable of meet
ing New York's temptations we do
not allow them to remain.
The pranks of these four girls q
were innocent, of course. They are 4
all young, from eighteen to twenty,
and they meant no harm, and did no q
serious harm. They did wrong, of Il
and for that. if for nothing else, they 4
would have to leave. II
But nothing. that has happened L
can be viewed as anything more than
a prank, an indiscretion- essentially
harmless. They were unfortunate
enough to come into the acquaint-
ance of men. who were not manly
enough to protect them from them
selves, and that is what is response 4
BILE for the whole affair."
whether these men were Columbia
students could not be learned.
Engineer j. L.. Collier was killed
/