The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-17
AN ARMY OF scHooLMA'AMs
That Raids New York Every Year in
June.
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NEW York, June 15.-The streets are
full of bright-faced Young women VIII o
carry themselves uncommonly well and show
the results of gymnastic training in the splen-
did positions of heads and shoulders Every
year at the beginning Of June we are COM
ing to look for their appearance. They are
the college girls in search of schools. They
ride up and down in the elevators of tall
buildings in the shopping districts, haunt
ing the teachers agencies; they stop to buy
daisies and mountain laurels on the side
walks and their 1.-THE figures and fresh color
are pleasant to look on. They dress very
simply, with little jewelry or none at all
but their butterfly bonnets and pretty gloves
are unmistakably refined.
The process OF obtaining school is often
a weary one, and July may come in and
find many of the applicants still in the
city. New York is the greatest headquar-
ters for tea chers for the country, and thous-
ands of names are registered personally and
by letters for vacancies west, south, north,
and east from Maine to California. MANY
schools leave the selection of their teachers
wholly in the hands of New York agents
who choose for them from the multitude of
candidates who apply. A majority of the
teachers agencies are conducted by women
plication and charge commission of per
cent. or thereabout on salaries under 81 900
and per cent. on salaries above that sum.
Preliminaries over, the would-be teacher
is put through a catechlsm. An average
set of questions for academic work largely
begins with inquiries about diplomas, de-
grees and testimonials, experiences, and the
addresses of persons who will testify to the
moral character. 1t proceeds to probe the
Of of
Latin, mathmatics, modern languages, the
natural sciences, history, metaphysics, liter
AZURE and voice culture 1t wants to know
if you are proficient in stenography and
telegraphy and bookkeeping. 1t manifests
an interest in drawing aud woodc 4rving
and painting in oil and water. modelling,
pastel, embroidery and decorative art. 1t
asks about instrumental music and the
quality of your voice and would you sing
in a choira 1t queries whether or no you
are a Kindergarten, whether you are q
specialist in manual training and gymnas-
tics. 1t asks what educational journals you
read, how old you are, color of hair and
eyes, hight and weight, whether deformed
or MANNED, where you 60 to church, and
state of single or double blessedness 1t re-
quires the deposit of photograph, and il
YOU are a woman, as happens to mos
teachers, it expects clean bill of health
from your family physician.
1t goes without saying that the number
of candidates is four times the number Of
openings. Who comes off first best, then
in the competition? The testimony is al
but universal that it is the college girls.
Ten years from now" said man who
conducts one of the largest teachers agen'
cies, sit will be practically impossible for 9
woman not graduate from good col
lege to obtain place as teacher in any Of
the high grade private schools of the couu
try or in any OF the first rank public schools
| above the grammar grades.
There can be no question about it." sale
woman of the head of O second agency
''the collegiate alumne have an immens'
advantage Private schools, academies
Institutes and high schools have long ex
pected their male teachers to be graduates
| and now they are exacting the same thing
from the women"
There is already an cutlery, not loud but
Deep was said at third bureau, "fron
the older teachers, of many years exper
fence, used to the cream of the places, wht
begin to find themselves thrust aside tt
make room for young chits, themselves jus
out of school. There are many schools
which infitely prefer bright, energeti,
young woman just out OF Smith or Vas
sar to woman, be she never SO good al
| instructor and disciplinarian who has laugh
without the college girls education tel
years. Certificates or graduation from
| fashionable boarding schools whose pupil
are coddled to induce them to come bacl
next term don't count in these days at all
their holders take back seats or stand up a
| together"
us there any preference shown % be
tween the graduates of the women'S colleges
and the co-educational institutional
"Only in individual cases. One school may
want a Wellesley girl just as another MAJ
want a Columbia instead of Harvard
man. There is no distinction in the aver
age"
Much is exacted, what is given.
"Do teachers wages ivance with the i'm
provement in women's education"
Certainly they do, and yet not in pro
portion to the advance of the standard
That is to say, if girl wants to do well al
a teacher she ought to 60 to college, anC
yet, if she goes to college, the chances are
she will not receive wages to repay her for
the long and expensive course of study"
The catechisms of the teachers agenci e,
require the applicants to state the amount
of the expected salary. Suppose" was
asked at prosperous registry, suppose {
young woman three years out of Vass al
and successful in her vocation, what figure,
might she insert in that blank as expressing
| a remuneration to be reasonably expected