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...last and most popular, love. We can't make fun of our instructors, we are not allowed to, it would not be ladylike. We haven't any crew or ball teams to call forth praise or blame, and we can't write love songs without giving ourselves away. - [Vassar Miscellany...
...Vassar senior writes in the Williams Argo: "Coasting and skating are very popular amusements and would be more generally pursued if gymnastics were not compulsory or took less time. Mr. Blaikie roused much enthusiasm for running last year, but it has gradually died out, and the nightly run of a quarter of a mile, required from the evening gymnastic classes, satisfies most of us. Class and club sleigh-rides, candy-pulls and 'spreads' make up the sum of our more informal winter festivities. Hallowe'en is celebrated as a time-honored custom. No amount of opposition has ever been able...
...senior class at Vassar are endeavoring to have the practice of bestowing "honors" at graduation discontinued. The claim is that competition in studies destroys wholesome effort. It is not expected, however, that the college authorities will see fit to grant the request...
...Vassar students are compelled to attend a short chapel service every evening, with Bible class, full service and sermon on Sundays. Theoretically each student reports her own absence; practically the presence or absence of students other than seniors is noted by teachers distributed through the congregation. Excuses from these exercises may be obtained from the resident physician on health grounds, in rare cases from the lady principal on the plea of great inconvenience. Seniors may absent themselves at discretion, merely reporting that they did so on a given date...
...restriction, which forces girls of every shade of belief to spend their time ostensibly given them for personal religious culture in listening to expositions of the tenets of that form of religious opinion, "whose bulwarks are the Trinity on one side and hell on the other," is held by Vassar students to be their one great grievance in the matter of "religious discipline." Daily chapel is not, on the whole, regarded as an infliction. Vassar does not object to the quantity of her religious exercises. She does protest against forced religious instruction, not, we admit in the interests...