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will lie, and the four years of college 

 life is beginning to assume its proper 

 place in public estimation. To pro- 

 duce, not phenomenal scholars nor well- 

 equipped teachers, but fine, strong, hu- 

 man women — that is the function of 

 those precious four years. 



Again I turn to my own class — and 

 as 1 run down the familiar roll from 

 B to W and glance back over the nine 

 years that have made those names part 

 of my life, I see that somewhere, some- 

 how, among the jumble of ' prescribed ' 

 and ' elective ' courses, we learned 

 therewith the better things, to see 

 largely, to judge temperately, to choose 

 true values. They look but chilly 

 infinitives, written so, but the class 

 knows how they have wrought into the 

 very fiber of our lives and made us the 

 women that we are. And more and 



more, as the true function of college 

 lite becomes recognized, as popular ex- 

 pectation ceases to demand in justi- 

 fication of a B.A. anything but 'just 

 woman,' the type which couples intel- 

 lectual attainment with underdeveloped 

 body will disappear. For some years 

 the importance of proper attention to 

 the physical well-being of school chil- 

 dren of both sexes has been impressing 

 itself upon the public, and no one will 

 apply scientific principles to the nur- 

 ture of her children more intelligently 

 and with less danger of capricious 

 " fads ' than the college bred mother. 

 We do ' want more ' of alumnae's chil- 

 dren, and we are going to get them — 

 an efficient and cumulative force toward 

 those wide and beneficent ends which 

 all true culture stands for. 



Another Alumna. 



