1895 Publications
This editorial, like the one from the previous year, deals with outside attitudes about women at college. Unlike the previous article, however, this author also addresses ideas about what we now call the "Bryn Mawr bubble".
She talks about how while a college woman is on campus, she is surrounded by other women with similar educational goals "who are doing the same thing as herself". It is only once she leaves the campus environment that she encounters people with different attitudes about women who attend college. The author asserts that these students don't encounter "ridicule" (anymore, is implied), but they must deal with being seen as a kind of oddity and having their motives questioned. At some point, the author claims, the college woman may even begin to pretend that she has not reached a level of education higher than anyone would expect of her, simply to avoid the judgement of others.
Why, the author asks, should this happen to college women when college men face no such thing?