Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-01-13

than that of college students, and that
a large per cent Of the latter find their
health improved at the close Of their
college life.
In case women do not marry Mrs.
Whiting said that college course was
the best possible preparation for single
life by making more complete persons
Of them, and by fitting them for sue
cessful competition In the industrial
world She did not believe that there
was any call to argue for the college as
a preparation for social and civic life,
so manifest were it's benefits, but re-
ferred to the college settlement as a
proof of the intelligence and enthusiasm
which the college-bred woman puts into
the solution of modern social problems.
Miss Kimball was the last speaker,
and her remarks kept the audience in a
ripple of laughter, interrupted now and
again by applause. They consisted of
brilliant sorties into the enemy's terri
tory, from which she returned wearing
the scalps of their slaughtered argu-
ments as trophies to the immense en-
tertainment of everybody, herself in
cluded. She secuted the idea ad-
vanced by one of her opponents, that
the college fosters temperance, and
produced some lurid statistics regard
ing the Yale-Princeton foot ball game,
to prove the contrary. AS for the state
ment that the self-made men of the
country felt themselves hampered by
lack Of education, she wanted to know
what would ever have become Of them
If they had had an education. She
thought a college education would be
good if you had eternity before you to
make use of it in.
At the close of Miss KimbalPs speech,
each Of the leaders was given the op-
portunity to make a three-minute re-
ply to the arguments of the other side,
and then, the judges having retired, the
question was thrown open to the house.
A general discussion ensued. The in
f1uence Of the college professor was dis
cussed, one of the debaters having in
stanced the example of one who re-
ceived his students smoking cigar and
with his feet on the mantel. Mrs. Ward
repeated her former assertion that col
lege athletics made for temperance.
Mrs. Foster said she did not mean to
underrate college education, but she
didn't think it any good to pour food
over an oyster or apples into a homeo-
pathic bottle. Mrs. Whiting objected
to taking the business men of the coun-
try who had risen often upon the Shoul-
ders of other men by unscrupulous
methods, as models for the rising gem
GRAFTON of young men. Miss Kimball
said that America was to be saved by
the home, and that If all the women
went to college, there wouldn't be any
homes.
Mrs. NJ. P. Higgins spoke in favor of
opening half-time schools, where those
who could go neither to technical school
nor to college could get an equally good
education of another kind. The city
should provide schools for every kind OF
child. Another member thought it odd
that so little had been said in the dis
cuEsion regarding the education of girls
and noted the fact that during the re-
cent crisis 1t was the business men, not
the college graduates, who steered the
country through. And still another
quoted the opinion of rich man to the
effect that no rich mans son could &c
through Yale without acquiring gamb-
ling and drinking habits.
The question was put to vote on the
merits of the question, and carried for
the affirmative by So to Il votes. The
judges, Mrs. A 2. Conrad, Mrs. G. F.
Carroll and Mrs John E. Tuttle, having
returned, they gave their verdict as
unanimously in favor Of the affirmative
upon both the merits Of the case and the
merits of the argument.