weeks, you know—I’ve elected Social Endeavour.”
“Ah,” I said, “that’s since my day, what is it?”
“Oh, it’s awfully interesting. It’s the study of conditions.”
“What kind of conditions?” I asked.
“All conditions. Perhaps I can’t explain it properly. But I have the prospectus of it indoors if you’d like to see it. We take up Society.”
“And what do you do with it?”
“Analyse it,” she said.
“But it must mean reading a tremendous lot of books.”
“No,” she answered. “We don’t use books in this course. It’s all Laboratory Work.”
“Now I am mystified,” I said. “What do you mean by Laboratory Work?”
“Well,” answered the girl student with a thoughtful look upon her face, “you see, we are supposed to break society up into its elements.”
“In six weeks?”
“Some of the girls do it in six weeks. Some put in a whole semester and take twelve weeks at it.”
“So as to break up pretty thoroughly?” I said.
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