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ADRIENNE KENYON,’
MARY G. BRANSON, 461

EDITORS
CONSTANCE M. K. APPLEBEE
CONSTANCE DOWD, ’'16 ©
FREDRIKA M, KELLOGG, '16
ELEANOR DULLES, "17 MARY SENIOR, '18

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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.