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Show , WMAT-COLLEGE WILL MEAN TO YOU j By Lewctte Beauchamp Pollock. (Teacher of English in East Technical High School, Cleveland, Ohio.) "Well, for one thing, you're bo untidy. un-tidy. You forget to make your bod almost al-most every day, and are always leaving leav-ing things all over ray desk. Sometimes Some-times your side of the room gets on my nerves so I could scream." "And you're so particular! I think thero's something wrong with a girl who can't stand a blot on her blotter. And I'm afraid to borrow anything from you for fear I'll get a wrinkle in it. Your particularness makes me just as nervous as I make you!" A really truly conversation? I promise prom-ise you it is. It took place between two freshmen girls roommates at college. They had been disliking- each other for weeks and had finally decided decid-ed to "have it out"; to tell each other "the whole truth and nothing but the truth." Tho process, lasted for about two hours, when the dormitory lights went out at midnight They sat in the darkness. dark-ness. Suddenly their hands met. A gulf of misunderstanding had disappeared. disap-peared. After that they roomed together, of their own choice, for two years. The other girls coultf not understand It, for tho two were so different But they had learned what every college girl has to learn, that delicate and Intricate art of living with people. And you high school girls who are going to college will learn that same nrt. You will live, probably, under a system sys-tem of self-government, which teaches those under it to respect the rights and privileges of others. You will learn to receive kindly in-tcntioned in-tcntioned criticism without nursing a sense of personal injury. In many sororities and clubs it is considered the duty of the upper-class women to help tho freshmen by friendly advice. And, most important of all, you will room with different types of girls and will have to adjust yourself to their various dispositions and habits. A friend of mine, walking through a small cemetery recently, saw a tombstone tomb-stone on which were cut these words: " 'She was comfortable to live with.' "It would be nice to have that said of oneself," she remarked to me after-, wards. ' "It would," I agreed. And I thought! of you high school girls, and of the op-1 portunitics you are going to have, at I college, to study that splendid art of j living with people. . |