2 The College News| Published weekly during the college year in the interests of Bryn Mawr College Managing Editor Aseit Managing Editor . Business Manager Ass’t Bus. Mgr. ADRIENNE KENYON,’ MARY G. BRANSON, 461 EDITORS CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE CONSTANCE DOWD, ’'16 © FREDRIKA M, KELLOGG, '16 ELEANOR DULLES, "17 MARY SENIOR, '18 Office Hours: Daily, 2-3 * Christian Association Library Subscriptions may begin at any time —" $1.50 Mailing Price $2.00 Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1ei6, at the post office at Bryn Mawr, Fas under t Actof March 3, 1 879 The College has gathered together to choose the officers on whose shoulders the responsibility of one of the college associations will rest next year. A buzz of whispering fills the room, ‘Nomina- tions are in order for a treasurer from the Freshmen Class.” In a corner a little group of Seniors are leaning for- ward with bated breath asking the Fresh- man in front of them “who is your class thinking of?” to which the Freshman is heard to reply: “Well, would be splendid. There she is over there.” The Seniors settle back, gaze critically at the Psyche knot designated. “IT don’t like her looks, says one. Who's the one in the good-looking dress next to her? I’m going to vote for her.” And she. does. Thus the election goes. Freshman. vote-for-unknown~ Seniors; @ Sophomore is put on an Undergraduate Association board because she is well- known through Varsity hockey. The new system that has been pro- posed for electing the Christian Associa- tion board, suggests a remedy. Why not have the classes nominate a certain num- ber of candidates from which the asso- ciations may elect their officers. Surely the class which has tested the abilities of all its members, will find capable people, rather than the College which can judge only by the more striking characteristics. CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN (The Editors do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in this column.) Dear Editors: I have a suggestion to make to all in-| telligent, industrious, and reasonably |c THES COLLEGE NEWS sity Law School. The school does sil thuces ile accustomed to teaching wo- | open until July 6th, and it closes on| men and finding them as good as men, | August 13th, so that there is plenty of | /they would undoubtedly take steps to ‘time for getting rest and recreation into secure the admission of women in the ‘the same summer both before and after. KATHARINE BLODGETT, '17 | 'e8ton, summer, especially in the Columbia son River. | neighborhood The price of board in the is reasonable, and the EMILIE STRAUSS,'16 | price of tuition is only thirty-five or forty | (according to the number of) | oretically unjust to exclude them, are | dollars | points taken). | There are at least four. /point of view of general culture, Now for the special positive reasons. First, from the | weeks given to the study of law is cer- my room-mate | tainly none too much, no other subject which an average wide- which is high and near the Hud- | |regular term. As it is, there are hardly + . ' | ISABEL FOSTER, i: |New York is seldom uncomfortable in | any women in the summer school (most women studying law elsewhere have probably not heard that Columbia admits women in summer). Even the profes- sors who would not object to having women in their classes, and think it the- | naturally not moved to protest against | the injustice when it seems to affect only ‘a few individuals. six | I can think of. awake college graduate would be so sure to might be her special bent. the main branches is of broad human interest, history, ethics, economics, psychology, find worth while, no matter what | Any one of. connecting itself closely with | and many contemporary Social problems. | Still more important, to my mind, is the) training in reasoning which is involved. The courses I took last summer—Evi- dence and Criminal Law—were among the most stimulating intellectual experi- | ences that I have ever had. The case system—in use at Columbia as at all the best ‘law schools—involves the method of an unceasing oral quiz and discus- | sharpens im- in the method inherent and this the stimulus sion; mensely subject. My second and third reasons apply only in certain cases. The second is that anyone who is thinking of choosing the law as a career would be assisted in making up her mind by these six weeks of study. Of course it would not be a complete test, as there are many other. qualifications for being a good lawyer besides those which make one a good law student, But it would serve as a negative test: if one did not take to this sort of work, one could be sure that one would not make a geod lawyer. The third reason applies to those who have already. decided to. prepare for the bar. They would do well to take advan- tage of the six weeks accorded to them by Columbia, since the instruction there is no doubt better than that at any of the law schools (except Chicago) now open to women throughout the year.) They could, of course, obtain credit else-| /where for whatever work they did here. My fourth reason—and the prime oc- casion of my letter—is this: healthy Seniors who have not yet made} dance of a number of women at the sum- their plans for the coming summer. summer after graduation is very apt to be a great bore, and I propose, as a sure means of enlivening it, a course in the summer session of the Columbia Univer- The | mer session would, hasten the day of opening the regular) The professors at the | summer school are chiefly the same as | in all probability, school to women. at the winter school, and if they grew The atten- | I hope it is clear that my fourth rea- son applies only to students of more than average intelligence and capacity for work. Any others would do less good than harm. Whoever is interested should write to Columbia University for a summer school catalogue (the law courses are included). The catalogues are not out yet, but a record is kept of requests. Margaret Franklin, ’08. The editors reprint an editorial from the New York “Evening Post” of Febru- ary 4th, thinking it would be of interest in connection with preceding letter: For a number of years the Columbia University Law School has been open to women in its summer session, and in its summer session only, thus enabling a woman to obtain a degree in the short space of twelve years. Announcement is now made that the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons is h®nceforth to make the same concession. There seems to be about as much reasonableness in ‘this distinction between seasons as there would be in a rule permitting only red- haired women to enter the sacred pre- cinets. The summer professional schools are not inferior to the winter profes- sional schools. The term is short—only six weeks—but the standard is appar- ently the same: both the professors and the subjects have very much the same names. There is close correspondence between “points” °in the summer schools ‘and “points” in the winter schools—one unit is as good as another in the sum that makes up a degree. This seasonal fluctuation in liberality, on the score of sex, is especially interesting in view of the words of warning which are to be found on the first page of the summer school catalogue for 1914: “Only stu- dents who are in good physical condi- tion should undertake summer study.” We do not pretend to fathom the minds 'of the. university authorities, but it is certain that, whatever their reasons for excluding women from the winter schools, they are estopped from assert- — ing the traditional justification of dan- 'ger to the women’s health.