Smith College Stories

"Smith College Stories" by Josephine Daskam Bacon is a collection of simple tales that serve to deepen in the slightest degree the rapidly growing conviction that the college girl is very much like any other girl—that this likeness is, indeed, one of her most striking characteristics—the author will consider their existence abundantly justified. Excerpt: "THE EMOTIONS OF A SUB-GUARD Theodora pushed through the yellow and purple crowd, a sea of flags and ribbons and great paper flowers, caught a glimpse of the red and green river that flowed steadily in at the other door, and felt her heart contract. What a lot of girls! And the freshmen were always beaten… "