The Grenada gazette., 1888-02-11
AFTER LEAVING COLLEGE.
what the Dear Giris DO After They Have.
Secured Degree.

| secured Degree.
Very interesting statistics as to the
occupations Of the women graduates
Of twelve American colleges have been
gathered by the Association of Col
legiate Alumna.
1t seems that of 2,6l9 graduates 99s,
are married and housewives. 949 are
teachers. 1873 are in other occupations,
and $50 are not engaged in rcmnner-
stivc work About 80 per cent. there
fore. are married and about 62 per
cent are single, while more than one
fifth are without any gainful occnpa-
ton whatever. All these women have
passed the marriageable age. and the
age at which the vast majority of
women actually marry, and yet two
thirds of them are still spinstcrs. and
many Of them well along in life, for
the statistics cover period reaching
back many years.
Weinfer, too, from the circumstance
that the proportionatc number Of the
married is largest in the case OF the col
lcge from which women are the longest
graduated. that collegc-bred women
marry later, on the average. than
their sisters who did not obtain schol-
astic degrees. Oberlin College. for
instance. admitted women as early as
1888. and has graduated s2s. of whom
479. OF more than one-half, have mar
ried. and Of the G75 graduates of
Vassar, founded in 1865. over one
third. or 239. lave become wives; while
Of the 554 from Smith and Wellesley
Colleges, founded in 1875. the married
are only II, or less than one-seventh
Yet it seems that Wellesley takes par
ticular pains to encourage happy mar
riaces, and to set a good example be-
fore its spinster graduates by we,com-
ing its ''sons-n.law' to its festivals.
Perhaps the poor results of its laborsin
this direction are due to the lack of
matrimonial opportunities in Massa-
chusctts, for of the 81 graduates from
Syracuse University. founded only four
years earlier, as many as GO are smong
the married.
OF all the graduates engaged in re-
muncratiye work, it will have been
seen. seyen-cighths are teachers, so that
it may said generally that, so far as
preparing them for self-support is con-
cerned. college training for women is.
almost wholly to fit them for Touching
A college diploma may bo of ,se As
accommodation for a woman seeking
situation as 4 teacher, but it can hardly
be scryiccable to her in any other en-
ployment.
The occupations other than teaching
pursued by the 1873 graduates out of "A
total of 2.6l9 are many and various OF
nine from California University. the
are engaged in fruit-raising
and farming. for which their college
training was perhaps hardly necessary
Some of the seven from Kansas Uniycr-
sity are classed as ranch-owners. Cor
nell's ten are chiefly in the medical
profession and in literature. The
other professions and occu-
pations of the graduates are
law. journalism. music, pictorial art,
architecture. clocution. printing, type
writing and trade. while Vassar has
added to the force of professional phi
anthropists, dangerous body. and
Wellesley to the number of religious
More than onc-ilfth of the a.6ly
graduates, as we have shown. are earn.
ng nothing at all. They are probably
more or less hopeful candidates fot
marriage. About One-third of the grad.
lates OF Vassar. Smith aud Wellesley,
III distinctively women's colleges. are
hus unemployed. while the proportion
rom Oberlin. where the sexes are
ducated together. is only little more
han one-teuth. The inference is that
large part OF the girls who 60 to the
ollcges for women especially have no
thcr intention than tina. of gc ing
What they suppose will be n desirable
ducation. without regard to ;:ir pray
lcal advantages to bc secured from it.
The statistics. as II whole. do not
how that. so far rs making u living is
onccrncd. college education has
rovcd OF any great service to women,
'r it is not necessary to fit them for
ne places rs teachers whih hey are
lost likely to get. and for wi,ua t1ey
re most especially adapted. II seems,
10. to diminish their chances Of mar
sing. since nearly two-thirds of all
'ese graduates are still spinsters.
-Harpers Ea.ar.