Year: 1878

Gated by the mere process of matricula-
tlsn. Thus we see that one of the very
easiest of college studies is quite beyond
the range of the female intellect.


The Sophomore year in most of our col
leges is devoted TO baseball viii Pres
ldent Bascom have the temerity to assert
that this is sedentary pursuit, or that it
IS one IN which it is possible for girls to
excel? We all know that nature has so
constructed a girl that she cannot throw
ball with any force or accuracy. If the
most accomplished Of President Bacom's
young ladies were to attempt to pitch
baseball the chances are that, instead of
coming within reach of the batsman. it
would describe a parabolic curve and
smash the Presidents front window.
Neither can young lady students strike
or catch ball when thrown with the
proper degree of force. In short, base
ball is study in which it is morally i'm
! possible that girls should ever success
fully compete with men. The same NAV
be said OF football, which, in some col
leges, is an optional study. whicn those
who do not fancy baseball are permitted
to substitute for the latter. It is barely
possible, judging from the remarks which
Chicago and st. Louis newspapers con
stantly make in regard to the feet OF the
ladies Of those cities, that Western girls
are better adapted for football than are
the girls this side of the Alleghenies, but
it may be safely asserted that no girl can
graduate in football, especially in col
leges where the Ruby method is studied.
with any honor, or, indeed, with any high
standing in her class.


BY far the most important study pur-
sued at any American college is that Of
rowing. From this study girls are vir-
/ tually debarred simply by reason of their
sex. Man is so constituted that he can
reduce his clothing to closetitting un-
dershirt and pair Of attenuated trousers,
| which add scarcely anything to his
weight ina six-oared shell. 1t is assert
ed by all scientific authorities that girls
are lncased IN many, successive layers of
clothing, which are believed to be per-
manently affixed to them, and the aggrc-
| gate weight Of which is enormous This
would alone render girls unfit topursueth
fascinating and improving study of row.
ing, but there are other obstacles equally
impossible to be overcome. Girls can
not run to any extent worth mentioning (;
are hence unable to run along the shore
while a race is in progress, yelling encour-
agement to the Oarsmen, on announcing
the odds which they are prepared to bet
upon their tavorite crews. Neither are
they able to vie with the other sex in
making hideous the night after the race.
Perhaps they would submit to the de-
prlvatlon OF caramels and the total alb.
stinence from tea which are necessary
while undergoing training, but what
plump young lady would be willing to
reduce herself to u gaunt and sun burned
oarsWoman. even in order to beat the
Yale or the Columbia crew? It might al
SO be mentioned that a race is rowed
principally with the muscles OF the oars
mems legs, and it is well known that the
gentler sex-But this is, perhaps, a
branch OF the subject which can be dis
cussed with proper deiicacy only by a
convention Of strong minded women


In several of the minor studies Of the
college course, such as euchre, the ampu-
tation of the clapper of the chapel bell
the mailing upof the tutors door, and the
introduction Of goats and other compare
lively innocuous animals into the recita


lon-room, girls may very possibly be
able to maintain something like an equal
lty with boys. Still, enough has beer
said to show that they are very far from
being adapted to pursue those more i'm.
portant studies which convert the indus
trious undergraduate into healthy. earn.
est, learned and Christian man. What
then, does President Bascom mean by his
assuming that merely because girls car
sit down rather more than boys they are
peculiarly adapted to pursue the regular
studies of the Harvard, Yale and Colum.
bia students?---N. y Times.