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 BULLETIN 
 
 Concerning the Care of 
 Women Students 
 
 PUBLISHT QUARTERLY BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 
 GREELEY, COLORADO 
 
BULLETIN OF THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE OF COLORADO 
 
 SERIES XIV JULY. 1914 No. 2 
 
 Entero at the Post Offis, Greeley, Colo., as Second-Clas Matter 
 
 A Bulletin of Information 
 
 CONCERNING 
 
 The Care of Women Students 
 
 IN THE 
 
 State Teachers College 
 of Colorado 
 
 GREELEY, COLORADO 
 
The Care of Women Students 
 
 INTRODUCTION, 
 
 The institution believs that in order to make the State 
 Teachers College of Colorado more efficient, more attention 
 should be given to how the students liv. To this end the Pres- 
 ident and Trustees of the institution hav selected a competent 
 woman as Dean of Women, who wil devote her entire time to 
 the lives of the women connected with the institution. 
 
 (1) She wil kno every one of them; (2) she wil kno where 
 and how every one lives; (3) she wil kno the fisical condition 
 and life of each one; (4) she wil be alert to all the exigencies 
 that may arise as regards food, helth, cases of sicknes and so 
 on. She wil not only giv attention to all these matters per- 
 taining to their fisical and living conditions, but she wil giv 
 time and thought to the conventionalities of life which women 
 ar expected to conform to. These conventionalities civilize, and 
 ar marks of civilization and culture. Courses wil be given by 
 the Dean of Women along these lines. The management of the 
 institution expects to increas this line of activity by having 
 competent assistants help the Dean of Women in a way that 
 there wil be individuals detaild to be companions, as it were, 
 of groups of yung women. 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND PRESIDENT OF 
 THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE OF COLORADO. 
 
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 Illustrations of How Women Students Liv at 
 The State Teachers College of Colorado 
 
 Much interest has been developt this year at the Colorado 
 State Teachers College in the varius groups of students who 
 Tiav been able with plesure and profit to manage their living 
 in ways different from those wel known in college life. 
 
 One group of five girls has livd very comfortably in three 
 rooms, with bath room shared with the family, and the use of 
 the basement for washing, etc. In this case a neat and conven- 
 ient little kitchen has been arranged upstairs by their hostes 
 without any expens. A gas plate, a table, cupboard, dishes and 
 a few cooking utensils hav been installd, and as the bathroom is 
 near at hand, the problem of hot and cold water is solvd. The 
 girls cook and eat in the kitchen. One large bed room, with 
 two windows, contains a double bed and a sanitary cot. 
 Three girls occupy this room with comfort. The other bed room 
 accommodates two girls. The price of the rooms, including the 
 use of the parlors and piano, is $20 per montn, entirely furn- 
 isht for light housekeeping. Heat and light ar supplied, but 
 cooking gas is extra. Some months the entire expense of each 
 of the five girls has been only $8. At these times some of the 
 provisions, such as egs, potatoes, or preservs, hav been sent 
 from some of the homes. At no time has the expense of any 
 girl been over $12 per month. The food has been wel and 
 carefully chosen by Domestic Sience students, two of whom ar 
 in the group. A money box, to which eacn members con- 
 tributes her extra pennies, helps with the amusement fund of 
 the party. This plan can very easily be carried out by girls 
 coming to the Teachers College from the same town, and the 
 Dean of Women, Mrs. Gilpin-Brown, wil be glad to assist in 
 locating such groups properly and comfortably. Representa- 
 tiv bils of fare obtaind from the five girls spoken of above ar 
 given belo: 
 
 Brekfast usually consists of toast or cereal, coffee or cocoa. 
 
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 Friday: Luncheon — Creamd salmon, bread and butter, left- 
 overs. 
 
 Dinner-Coddled egs, bred and butter, picles, masht po- 
 tatoes, corn starch pudding, cookies, tea. 
 
 Wednesday: Luncheon — Creamd chipt beef, fried potatoes* 
 bred, preservs. 
 
 Dinner — Stuft steak, gravy, baked potatoes, picles, bred and 
 butter, tapioca pudding. 
 
 Another group of three girls has an apartment of two rooms 
 and an outside porch, with a bath room, which they share in 
 common with the occupants of the next apartment For this 
 they pay $12.50 per month, which does not include coal, gas, nor 
 electric light. One of these girls is a Domestic Sience student 
 She has drawn up a set of rules and regulations about the shar- 
 ing of the work, which has been found very convenient, and* 
 has been cheerfully adhered to. 
 
 The little apartment is plainly but comfortably furnisht. 
 All three girls sleep in the well-ventilated front room, which 
 contains two sanitary couches, and can be used for a sitting 
 room as wel as a sleeping apartment The kitchen is provided 
 with a coal range, a gas plate, sink, kitchen-cabinet, table, etc. 
 There are accommodations for washing on the back porch. The 
 expenses for March were as folloes: 
 
 Rent $12.50 
 
 Lights 1.25 
 
 Gas 50 
 
 Coal 1.50 
 
 Groceries 18.00 
 
 Total $33.75 
 
 Making for each girl an expenditure of $11.25. 
 
 Several mothers with daughters hav establisht temporary 
 homes near the Teachers College, so as to be able to send their 
 daughters to scool, while they themselvs perfect their educa- 
 tion at the same institution. This opportunity, long wisht for 
 but not feasible while family cares required the mother’s whole 
 
THE STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE OF COLORADO 
 
 
 attention, has often ment the making over of a woman in helth 
 and mentality. The tone of the scool is hightend by these 
 devoted mothers, who while providing for their daughters, ar 
 also companions and fello students with them. Their helpful 
 influence is much felt by the entire student body, and it is to 
 be hoped that more women in middle life wil avail themselvs 
 of this excellent opportunity. A schedule of the expenses of a 
 mother and two daughters is appended belo: 
 
 These persons livd very comfortably in a modern house, 
 where all improvements and conveniences were found. They 
 had two large bedrooms, and a private parlor downstairs, in 
 which they had their own piano. For these rooms and privil- 
 eges they paid $25 per month, heat, light, hot water, telephone 
 and laundry conveniences supplied. Their board, which was 
 obtained next door, was at the rate of $3.75 per week each. 
 With the aid of an electric iron, for the use of which they paid 
 10 cents per hour, they were able to do their own laundry work. 
 These people found that the profit and plesure of the scool life 
 amply repaid them for the money output. The mother continued 
 thru the entire college course, and at present has a respon- 
 sible and remunerativ position in a similar institution, while 
 each of the daughters is perfecting herself in the special work 
 with a view to a good position in the future. 
 
 For those girls who wish to work for a part of their ex- 
 penses good positions may be obtaind. 
 
 Many of the best students of this institution hav workt their 
 way thru college, and ar at present in excellent positions. 
 Girls in couples often obtain a good and comfortable room in 
 which they may get one or two of their meals, with the use of 
 a small gas plate (provided by the landlady) or by the use of a 
 chafing dish, thereby very materially lessening the cost of board. 
 In all cases it is expected that the girls in the rooming houses 
 shal hav a reasonable use of the parlor, so that they may enter- 
 tain their frends in a becoming manner. Very pleasant little 
 cottages may be rented furnisht, in which a party of girls, with 
 a chaperone and helper, a mother, sister, or older friend, may" 
 keep house cheaply and comfortably. 
 
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 A very satisfactory experiment has been successfully carried 
 out in the family of a leading citizen of Greeley, in which two 
 girls, students of the college, were given a plesant, wel-furnisht 
 bed room, and all the privileges of a most comfortable home, with 
 board of the very best sort to be obtaind. These two yung 
 ladies agreed to do the entire work of the household, and by a 
 careful arrangement of hours, they hav been able to do wel 
 and thoroly the work for this family, and also to hav time to 
 pursue their studies, so that both have obtaind their degrees. 
 
 As an experiment this plan reflects much credit upon the 
 family and the yung ladies consernd. 
 
 A great many variations of these few examples of the ways 
 that girls liv at Colorado State Teachers College may be thought 
 out and successfully carried thru by bright girls who hav the 
 ambition to become teachers. 
 
 The following pictures will give a notion as of the type of 
 boarding and rooming houses of the city, adjoining the campus, 
 in which the women students ar accorded genuin home life. 
 
 Table board may be secured from $3.75 to $4 per week; 
 rooms with modern conveniences, such as bath, furnace heat, 
 electric light, etc., may be had at from $8 to $10 per month, one 
 or two in a room. Where the room is occupied by two students, 
 each student pays $4 or $5 per month for her share of the room. 
 Rooms without all the modern conveniences, but entirely fur- 
 nisht for sleeping purposes may be had at a charge of $5 to $8 
 per month. 
 
 Housekeeping rooms may be had from $6 to $10 per month. 
 These rooms ar all equipt with cooking utensils, etc. There ar 
 some small cottages to be had at a reasonable cost for house- 
 keeping purposes. 
 
 For definite information as to location, etc., address 
 
 VERNON McKELVEY, 
 Secretary to the President. 
 
 Greeley, Colorado. 
 
INSPIRATION POINT, LIBRARY AND POOL 
 
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AN ATTRACT1V ROOMING HOUSE 
 
ONE OF THE PLESANT HOMES WHEPvE STUDENTS DXY 
 
A PLESANT GROUP 
 
A COZY BOARDING AND LODGING HOUSI^ 
 
LIVING ROOM AND KITCHEN OF HOUSEKEEPING SUITE 
 
STUDENT LODGING HOUSE 
 
HIGH SCOOL cottage; 
 
THE NOON HOUR 
 
A GOOD TYPE OF ROOMING HOUSE 
 
A CORNER IN A HOUSEKEEPING APARTMENT 
 
AFTER LUNCHEON 
 
ONE OF THE POPULAR BOARDING PLACES