Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-11-07
SOUTHERN MoNANHoop.
How n Was Anect-d nv In. War ex IN. ~
beliion.

From the Century.
The fact that 50 large a proportion Of shs
young women now attending southern coIlec..
are securing an education not for ornament
but for use. not for social culture merely but
in preparation for self-support, has had the
very natural effect OF making them moro earn.
est and diligent in the prosecution Of their
studies. Amuch larger proportion Of colles,
girls comes now from the middle aud poorer
classes than formerly. Many OF the poor giris
Of the south today are the daughters Of edu-
Gated parents whose property was swept away
during the war. their culture surviving the lose
OF home and property. And what will an edus
Gated and refined mother not do what sAeris
nee will she not make, IN order that hef
daugher may have the benefits Of an edacatiouf
IL poor she will practice the most rigid econ.
onny and submit 20 the severest personal self
denial II thereby her daughter Is enabled ~
enjoy the advantages Of an education; and
many are the 80 uihern mothers who since tka
war have done this. and more, 20 give thor
children m education. And there are many
noble instances in which an elder daughter,
having been Thus educated through the labor
and economy OF her parents, has generously
requited their loving solf-denial in her behalf
by going 70 work herself and helping each u
her younger sisters 20 obtain the educatios
which their parents were an ,ious but unable -
give them.
~ ~ 'actor VINO has called WIS ''tna
century OF woman" II il certainly an aes
that has witnessed great changes fvT the life.
education and labor 81 women everywhere. and
these changes have all been in the direction Of
enlarging the sphere Of woman's activities.
increasing her liberties and openine m po-~is
bilities 20 her life hitherto restricted 10 m.n
IL is movement limited 20 no land and 90 no
race. 30 far as this movement NAV have sut
tendency 20 take woman out OF her true place
IN the home, 20 give her mans work 20 DO and
4 ina main 50 n a.
no sympathy in the south. The southern
woman loves the retirement of home ana
shrinks from everything that would tend.ts
bring her into the public gaze. The higher
education OF woman. which has been so widely
discussed of late years, and 60 encourage and
promote which such noble schools for woman
as Wellesley, Nassar, Smith and Bryn MavT
have been founded and so many great male
universities in the north and in EnglanS
thrown open 20 them, is duly recoez
nized and felt among the young women OF the
south. This widespread aspiration OF south
ern young women for broader culture hnds
expression IN the eagerness with which thet
are seeking admission into the best Of ths
higher institutions provided for males ane
his not because coeducation finds favor IN
The south-for II 10. perhaps, less encourages
here than in any other part Of the United
states. though the prejudice against il n veal
ening somewhat-but only because there 10 NJ
higher institution OF learning for women which
provides for them the extensive facilities ana
broad culture furnished by at least q few in
situations for young men. Many feel that thu
greatest educational need Of the south today 10
of an institution that will provide for youn8
women as thorough an education and as broad
culture as is provided for young men ~ the
University OF Virginia. the Vanderbilt or the
Johns Hopkins-an institution that will not be
In competition with any existing female cols
lege in the south, but will hold itself above
them all by establishing and rigidly maintain.
ing high conditions of entrance as well q Of
graduation. and whose pride will be the hiel
quality Of the work it does, not the number a
pupils IL enrolls, though numbers would Also
come In due course OF time. The active.
earnest, vigorous young womanhood Of the
south Is demanding such an institution. Suraly
a demand so just and a need 20 widely and
seriously felt cannot 60 long unmet Where u
the phiianthropist.