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Show College Does Not Appeal to the Young Girls of the Flapper Type By MARY E. WOOLLEY, President Mont Holyoka College. j There has been too much emphasis on the college flapper of late. They h3ve been pictured, in some quarters, as painted, jazzed up, smoking, smok-ing, bob-haired seofflaws My experience is that college doesn't appeal to young girls of that type. Lven if some members of this class, which exists, to a great extent in the imagination of certain vople who are always ready to decry the womanhood of America, do come to college, they soon find that college is no place for them. Generally they are obliged to settle down and work hard in order to keep up with the standards of the institution to which they belong. It is the duty of educational institutions to show young girls that Christianity really means something. In this matter college authorities ! are on the defensive. We must interpret to youth the meaning of 'religion 're-ligion in the light of present-day needs. I hold, that the women of this generation have asserted themselves intellectually, and therefore, are more independent. Independence, however, how-ever, is not a fau!;. though I would say it was a liability which needed I xreul watching |