The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-28
Observation-Disclosures
WOMAN'S WORLD.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
THE POSTGRADUATE GIRL.

Only Two Universities In the United states
Now That VIII Not Have Her.
It's rather difficult to understand
the position of university taat opens
its doors TO women in postgraduate
work in certain departments and keeps
them rigidly closed in others. 1t all
depends upon the professor. One
may be willing to admit her into his
laboratories while another may see
nothing but disappointment following
in her wake and may absolutely re.
fuse. Then the postgraduate girl
can do nothing but obey the mandate
that bids her depart.
There are two universities in this
country that have never yielded to the
persuasive tongue of the ambitious
young woman. Princeton will have
none of her, and Clark University has
drawn its lines against her. But eve
rywhere else the wedge has been en-
tered, and the young women have
appeared in numbers that are growing
every year. She is hard to equal, the
postgraduate girl.
Some of the women s colleges make
special provision for her nowadays.
Bryn Mawr is really ahead in that
work, for she not only gives fellow
ships, but she is striving to become
university, with postgraduate courses
all her own. Vassar grants several
fellowships; Mount Holyoke is work
ing for the same end; Smith, so far
as is known, pays little attention to
tha Ia ~ l. Ia
that for advanced work it was neces-
sary to study abroad. But it is rap
Idly coming to be the fact that the
best facilities for postgraduate work
may be found in this country. 1t is
fortunate, too, for the young woman
who has no more than an A. b. after
her name might as we'll give up, if
teaching is her career. She never
can rise to the higher positions.
For teachers there is a deal in de-
gree, and so many of them spend all
their spare timo working for few
more letters to write after their
names, even while they are working
for little more money at the same
time. For, though college girl may
be frivolous, the postgraduate student
never is. She has settled down to the
stern realities of life, 80 to speak, aud
she has no time for anything but
earnest work. The degree she is
after is definite goal, toward which
she travels by the quickest possible
road. There is difference, however,
between the man who goes in for
post. graduate work and the young
woman. Perhaps because it is more
difficult to find the woman who is a
student and nothing besides, is the
reason that the young women post
graduates strike one as being ahead
of the young men some ways; they
seldom become mere grinds.
The degree of Ph.D. is not COM
monplace yet. 1t may be in time, and
then the postgraduate girl will need,
perforce, to go in for still more de-
grees. She spends about three years
working for that one degree now,
although in some departments in
Columbia, for instance, it take much
longer time. But the simple fact that
she has Phi d. attached to her name
counts for little in comparison with
the name of the college from which
she obtained it. The more easy
they are to get the less they mean,
necessarily. Degrees from Chicago,
Leland Stanford. Cornell and the
University of Michigan rank high,
and in all of these women are ad-
mitted on an exact equality with men.
Columbia gives fine opportunities for
graduate work in the departments
that are open, but though there are
fellowships no woman ever obtains
one.
Some of the young women seem to
have an unlimited capacity for work,
rs in the case of one high school
teacher who teaches all day, has a
number ofprivate pupils besides, and
attends lectures in the evenings. It's
n case of working all day and study.
ing at night, and that is what many of
the degree-seekers do. AS rule,
the professors like to have them in
their classes, because they are so
thoroughly in earnest.-Now York
Sun.
Benefactor OF Unmusical Children.