Springfield Weekly Republican

College Flappers

There should be unanimous agreement with President Woolley's remark that college flappers are not so bad as they are painted. An intelligent Englishman who visited nearly all the larger educational institutions of the central states a year or so ago wrote, after returning to England, that he had been unable to discover any of the terrible flappers he had heard so much about. There has been some rather juvenile assumption—or affectation—of freedom in college manners in recent years, but, as Miss Woolley says, when the terrible types so often portrayed go to college they usually find that they must either settle down or get out. The colleges have, perhaps, permitted an excess of recreation and too much going to proms, but apart from yielding to the increased demand for amusement, which pervades almost every grade of American life, have not encouraged habits more flapperish than are customarily exhibited by girls of the same age under the same conditions. The enforcement of high academic standards is or can be made an excellent purgative.