New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-15

tbs ohstc,e IN tb oy nv stu3ions girl want OF
time, but want of teaching and ia me high
school, she holds her own, and she stays o Sv
that it taxes the ingenuity OF tod s eyreriment az
TO get rid of her During the short-lveu H
high school in Boston in 1926, IL was nauo oo5
charge against that the G SSDve esrnetuess of
All those Who entered the high school, MOI one, uInB
the Is months 1t w reason to suppose that any would
voluntarily quit for the waOe ynIg bs was What ed
~ Dstiiuton-this prepOsterOus pertnaely-tms love
of know which refused 10 leave scno iot any
short of honorable wedlockl The schoo had 10 be aOo
b6 m order TO graduate the class method too sug.
gestiye Charles Lambs DlSser'aIioh Oh hoaSt rs
70 g Ebe third fallacy may be said he that OF hope
less PHI soal inferority. rms is illacy not very
rrevalent so fer know, among those concerned IN
| teaohnC but more common among physicians. To ex-
pose properly perhaps needs one VINO represents DOt
professions. am not physelah except III me sens
in which proverb says that every man OF forty Is
either physician or 1901 out nave peen OT yeat
girls And were not think that so far as the medi-
argument prOr or theoretical land 1t Is chleny
ever knew met Mcheet's celebrated work. in which ne
lifelong invalid. NV friend wrote Indignantly at the
end. As II the Lord did not know how 10 create
wOnan." All the psychologists In the world would not
convince me that in OF women any more than OF
men, desires essentially disprOpOrtonae to desnes
II nature has made woman wish for educaOn nature
And Tar the argument from this source IS based
observation have yet seen no array OF tactS that
bear upon it, SO vague argument as That there
great deal Of -health among women, therefore they
attributed to any of scientific reputation Even 10
say that there more OF this ilhealtn In NewEnRland
than elsewhere, and that NewEngland is better ed-
Gated and that these facts must be connected Is very
vague reasoning; the faacy hoe ergo pT0pter
ton. NewEngland also eats great deal OF unwnole1
| some food NewEugiand has trying climate; and
know sensitive gentleman who mas left Boston because
the wind blows and the streets have so many cor
ners Moreover, l can show you white populations III
the United States where the women are innocent OF te
alphabet they of soap and water; and yet the
sickest Massachusetts produces healthy women
| fhnun il
our women from thorough education in order to save
their lives we have night to more DEFINITE Icr aS
Woman" Show your statistics OF connection between
for s life ii is entitled with every .Otner criminal " DO
| held innocent ill il ia proved guilty
| WHETHER EDUCATED WOMEN ARE HEALTHY.
Statistics sort mean certainly within reach
There are towns in NewEngland where for more than
generation the standard Of education for girls in the
public schools has been exceptionally high know one
town where assisted examining nearly 25 years ago.
class of girls and boys in mathematical studies more
difficult than those pursued by ninetenths of the Har
| Those girls are now wives and mothers; their vital
statistics can ascertaned and the vital statistics OF
| | am sorry TO say that Boston is one OF them
where there has been no high sc h i iSG
psychologists who deny the possibility of female educa-
ton collect and compare the statistics, setting these
tally, and showing that health increases with igno
rance, and disease with knowledge Is II 700 much
cal training that the author Of late book Unver
~ 0aT has taken the pains TO write 10 every who
ever pulled III regatta and ascertain his physical
condition. And yet psychologists VIII condemn WnOle
generation OF girls to Ignorance without collecting in
any definite form facts that must determine the
question. 1t is not enough to give the verdict IL Is
matter of such Importance have right 10 the
Then there is another of facts easy of collection
There are colleges years have educated men
and women side by side. The pupils of these colleges
coming from all parts of the Union exclude from the
result all the disturbing force OF climate ana local
habits and afford fair basis Of calculation We have
table of statistics tins point from the Oldest col
ege where Joint education practced President Fair
child OF ODern has ta0ulated the record OF deaths
among ObeTln graduates for more tnan 80 years Out
of 81 young ladies who have graduated since 1884, have
died. or IN r. OF 36S young men who have graduated
since that date "a have died. or in H. or these 3D.
died in the and leaving these out the proportion
| stu remains 10 Is M. -,
pressure is too great both public schools
nave always believed. believe that the school hours
the chief pressure is exered before come to higher
| education at all As 20 higher the scheme Of study
outlay of health strength is required at present TO 90
| through Harvard College must have had less
| the exercises OF that University. The simple
fact is that the whole tendency Of our higher
more capable Of modification, adapting 10 to
know saying would far rather trust the health
OF my daughter at Harvard College than at trstcass
Boston grammar school Individual instances do not
decide the question. Tue first scholar my own class
broke down in health and LETT college. The first scholar
OF class next died soon after graduating That
sOmnamDuic boy bearing the appropriate name Of
Wired Fits, WHO is jail for assaulting his COM
rades with knives at night, Is now declared 10
nave been injured by over study and scn the
mas been shortened one consequence. So there
doubtless girls VINO Will be made sck or s0nanDnhc
against must set those other cases less easily
asceTtaned Of girls who now sink istessy into disease
the vacancy heart that education would supply with
nOOlor objects. If l presumptu0us in pleading
no doubt their own ground sufficiently my supe-
put to death with one potion and bring me TO
life with another yet cannot forget the class OF clients
for whom plead young girls, such as Tennyson de-
"In glowing health with boundless wealth,
Yei sekeuins OF vague disease"
Young girls, such as DIR. Johnsons heroine in Ras-
selas VINO Thought she was IN love, Wheh sue was
only idle"
ONLY POOR GIRLS SUPPOSED TO WANT EDUCATION.
The last of these faaces IS the assertion that there is
sufficient provision already. IL mainly social
narrowness, the assumption that because tho daugh-
tiers Of the rich are satisfied with what is called
society" its delights there is therefore class of
girls to demand higher education. On this point my
experience in public schools has led 10 conclusions
different perhaps from those held by many VINO hear
structon ike those in England are transferring them
selves more and more from the children OF the neh who
of the poor, who do need them. No one look
rankst at Harvard, for instance, without seeing
this and am inclined to think that great social law
what may be called the law OF social alternatonies
behind It, In monarchical country, II is desirable per-
hap that emnence and influence should be perpetuated
in certain families In republic 1t better, suppose
families should be broken up, nterchanged alter
mated. Onel instrument in this social alienation is
called wealth. The poor boy must study; the rich boy
need not so in the next generation the poor family
forward the rich family recedes III this IL true
of the sons 1t Is far true of the daughters
member radical English lady of rank wno arriving in
this country went first TO Newport IN tho fashionable
and began asking all the young ladies II they
had been at college college" said ono OF them, the
granddaughter OF a very eminent BOstOnian, not
young lady OF my acquaintance ever thought OF going to
college" "But surely there are colleges for women In
America" pleaded the bewlldered English woman.
Then 1t must be the daughters OF mechanics who go to
them" said the young astocrat secure in her monopoly
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