"
"They eat ice-cream in them?"
"They _have to_," she said, "to make it concrete. But
while they are doing it they are considering the ice-cream
parlour merely as a section of social protoplasm."
"Does the professor go?" I asked.
"Oh, yes, she heads each group. Professor Thinker never
spares herself from work."
"Dear me," I said, "you must be kept very busy. And is
Social Endeavour all that you are going to do?"
"No," she answered, "I'm electing a half-course in Nature
Work as well."
"Nature Work? Well! Well! That, I suppose, means cramming
up a lot of biology and zoology, does it not?"
"No," said the girl, "it's not exactly done with books.
I believe it is all done by Field Work."
"Field Work?"
"Yes. Field Work four times a week and an Excursion every
Saturday."
"And what do you do in the Field Work?"
"The girls," she answered, "go out in groups anywhere out
of doors, and make a Nature Study of anything they see."
"How do they do that?" I asked.
"Why, they look at it. Suppose, for example, they come
to a stream or a pond or anything--"
"Yes--"
"Well, they _look_ at it."
"Had they never done that before?" I asked.
"Ah, but they look at it as a Nature Unit.
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