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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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THE GIRLS' LOT 307 licitors, or find expert employment as draughtsmen or student assistants in laboratories. Bricklayers, barbers, carpenters, all attend the University. A few years ago several farmers' sons borrowed the family cows, drove them to the University, and lived comfortably and independently during their college course by selling milk morning and evening. But student opinion and the attitude of the authorities favor the principle that no man not driven to it by necessity should rob his studies and his leisure of the time required to make a partial living. The life of the Illinois girl has improved greatly in that the larger number of women has made friendships of a congenial sort easier, adapted the University atmosphere to feminine life, and created a set of distinctively feminine activities. Some years ago life for those who could find no place in the sororities or church dormitories was often distinctly unpleasant, and the conviction that something must be done to improve it was responsible for the decision to build a Residence Hall in 1916. The complacent acceptance of the principle laid down by Michigan for younger State universities that the outside life of students required no official provision was responsible for a considerable amount of real misery. It meant that a girl in a boarding house had to endure not merely many physical hardships, but was sentenced by environment, in many cases, to a starved social life. A survey of living conditions by the Dean of Women several years ago disclosed the fact that a few houses were dirty, a very few had vermin, and a large number were ugly and ttl-furmshedJt A prime cause of discomfort was inadequate bathroom facilities, and in her report we read that "the average number of girls to one bathroom is eight.?! The paucity
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