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ItPORTO RICAN STUDENT DESCRIBES LIFE AND CUSTOMS ON ISLAND“The first thing which impressed me when I came to Stanford,” said Hallie Elvira Queen, a Porto Rican student here in the University, “was the amazing number of men there are here, and the second thing was the ease with which your American woman deports herself among them.” ^ '•**Miss Queen, the only Porto Rican student at Stanford, has been working for the past year to get her master’s degree in the Department of Spanish.“It is far different with our sheltered women,” Miss Queen continued the interview'. “In Porto Rico it is an unusual thing for a girl to take a higher education. However, contrary to the general idea of the public, Porto Rico is steadilyprogressing. We have a University which ranks on a par with any American university, and from which students may transfer at any time to any American college without loss of credit. It is a coeducational institution.”Miss Queen described some of the social customs of Porto Rico, one of which is strangely related to the institution of the Stanford “rough.” It seems that the Porto Rican men gather at the corners and upon the approach of a young woman throw their coats at her feet. Then by dint of teasing and threats they force her to step upon the coat. The man whose coat has thus been honored goes about all day with the foot print upon his back, and becomes very angry if anyone attempts, to remove it. *v * ^ ‘ tPorto Rican society, as Miss Queen describes it, is loosely divided into four classes, entirely on the basis of profession.
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Stanford Daily
Stanford, California, US
Fri, May 25, 1923
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