Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-07-14
nae "ERupITE. WOMAN.
IRE Part the Blus-sioskinz Plays IA
the World.

the World.
The Rev. DR.. +. Winchester Donald
Of Trinity Is credited with the state
ment that he does not like the wom-
ems colleges. because ''the moment a
woman becomes erudlte. as she does
after the average college course. she
becomes a blue-stocking and apart
from the rest OF society. And eonse-
quently she does not accomplish the
good which she might otherwise"
We assume at once that the reverend
doctor has been Incorrectly reported.
as so often happens In the anniyer-
sary season. and also In that passage
representing him as complimentary to
the school OF which he was speaking.
because. while Il Is a sort OF women's
college. II Is not enough OF a college
TO hurt anybody, says the Boston
Transcript. Hut the mischief a mis-
taking reporter. multiplied by con-
denslng editor. may do Is something
terrible Tor regulations. What DR..
Donald knows as well as anybody Is
that even a woman becomes erudite-
that IL, learned. cultivated. literally
free from rudoness'-she becomes
capable OF understanding the larger
meaning OF life. That she becomes
In a sense apart from the rest OF So
cieiy Is true. because she becomes the
leayen Of the lump. She becomes
gifted with finer sensibllltles. with
keener perceptions. with higher ideals.
with an Inward striving for the things
which are higher and better than per-
tain to the rect OF society. That Is.
promising that she has had the right
sort OF college education. OF course.
as the educated man. even when a
minister may be sometimes brute
or a prig. so the educated woman may
sometimes become a blue-stocking. a
terror, or a prig OF the feminine gem
der. but that Is no, the prevailing
tendency OF modern college education
In tho higher women's colleges. A
3 young woman comes out OF the insti-
tuition with a better equipment for the
battle OF life. II she must become a
Fighter and. to reverse the reporters
idea Of DR.. Donalds idea. she accom-
plishes a good which she might not
: otherwise. And when she becomes a
\ wife and a mother. and plans that the
. child by her side shall have the best
that a woman's college can afford In
, the way OF education. does anybody
D believe that she Is any the worse foi
4 looking back with a thrill OF pleasure
Z toward her own school days In IN,
y higher educational institution fol
D women? And the woman VIII,
\ Is to make her own way n
4 the world. In some Of n,
Z new spheres Of action which &, Is IN,
J greatest glory oi the century 70 b,
y opening TO such women. the one who n
never 10 know the touch OF a bah,
z hand that Is a part Of her own life. 4
she any the worse on FOR having Ia,
; the highest ideals. the best training
\ the most thorough preparation tina
4 women's colleges can glyel The ,rou
\ bic with the report OF DR.. Donald
, remarks Is that Il makes him out 4
4 have got his premises wrong. The col
< lege girl does not necessarily bocom
y a blue stocking And in the next plac
y the blue stocking plays a part in tn
worlds economy just the same a. m
< woman who has had just enough O
z an education TO NJ the requirement
Of the heroines OF Jane Austen's nov
D els.