The sun., 1901-07-28
FUTURE OF CoLLx0k 0IRLS.
Opportunities fer Teaching opsa - Them
ed sAs Pay - Re Expected.

There arc altogether too many Of them.
Int he nrst place" said tho teachers agency
man In reply to question a. TO the present
demand for oollsse-bred women a. school,
teachers. and they all want places that are
not tn bs had rather than chances 10 teach.
They wont take good grammar school plsoss.
but want . high school place.
The college girl u full Of wrong notions
about the schoolteaoher market when she
comes out from hsr academic halls She
has heard Of girl who ouos secured . place
to teach IN Q high school for 1900 In her
hrst year and she thinks there arc lot OF such
places waiting to BE- snapped up Now. a. .
matter OF stern fact. can get all the college,
bred girls want and plenty moro that
wouldn't have anyway for % week. and
go 10 start with IA good pay. A for salary
Of $500 year. that 10 uncommon LUCK How
far these figures arc removed from the ool-
lsge siri's dream Of q. 900 Il obvious
Some Of the best and brightest girls who
were graduated from college last year are
now teaching In high schools for $500 year.
and are glad even for the coming season to
keen their places In the small towns whore
they arc employed. Life IN th,se towns 10
very often pleasant ana the girls can obtain
board for q moderate figure, certainly for .
third less than In q oonsenial private family
in the city. 20 that they are not 40 much TO
be pitied a. the smallness Of their salary
might seem 10 indicate.
Really. you know your college girl 10
foolish ABOUT what shS wants TO do To
teach clnasics and classical history 10 stxtes
year-old boys she considers fine and en-
noblng career, while TO each English gram
mar and American history TO hfteen-year
boys she regards as wholly unworthy OF her
Intellectual culture / pity from the bottom
Of my heart those girls who are looking for
never yet been decently buried
Just about twice too many girls anyhow
are going TO college and trying TO use their
education In teaching high schools. That
girl who WAS talking to me a. you came In,
can't write a respectable 70 English letter but
fss nnsb In ssasfS o. So a. * ss Been m
engaged In grammar school work, and by her
own account has been fairly successful At It.
she has been learning how to do ever since
she left college and get a place TO do what she
win never in this world be able to do properly;
!. 4 osss sSndss or ass axe casas Han
-Unicss girls father can amply afford
II and there Ia no need for the young woman,
when GRADUATED ., 60 get OUT @ into & she world
water. she would far better not go to college
at all 1t il utter folly for so many girls to
for fH tSs sSns%s sase Of a ooiiese education,
The barnard girl thinks she's es good
as anybody. but the Radcliffe girl thinks
have no sense OF values in the economic
world, They are not properly related to
life They haven't the slightest, apprecia-
graduate and a chance to get a well-payins
place to work.
Here's an illustration. happened to
know good G5 Ssd
who had place to MI wanted Radcliffe
girl, and so sent for one. then Sc senior. s
about whom knew VS., s9methins ne ,nI s % , to,d hss
10 come and talk TO me about matter OF
business / had in hand and ,whs, do you
suppose she answered wen' me repy e,s,
place, but that Is not 80 strange, for scarcely
any collsge-bred girls know how TO write
respectable English note but the burden
Of her answer was that she was 50 busy with
her exnmina tons and class day arrange
ments that she couldn't come To see me then
or indeed for another fortnight
THE best special work now avallabie Tor
oollege-bred teachers Ia commercial courses
in nigh schools. but few are ntted Tor ana
there are many more calls proportonat"ly
comes tho demand for capable tcachers In
English, but these. as | have said. are ex-
oeedinsly hard TO And among re"ent graal-
airl who can supervise both music and draw
Ing For either alone there are many more
people than places. but for tho educated
girl who can combine these two subjects
the chances are very good.
For the young woman who possesses .
COLES 60 degree, a Normal school training Q
specially, and some common sense. the pros
pects arc indeed unusually good this year
In the departments OF history, mathematics
and natural scienc" trained teachers are IN
domnnd The demand for roally good teach
ers OF French IL also good. By this do not
mean the girl who. after finishing her course.
has gone abroad to study the languages, bpt
the young woman who having inteillgnntly
taken a degree at n good American college.
has dsyot cd herself 20 n few years hard work
In some foreign university or has travelled
with n constant eve on future teaching,
"Tho phiIpplnes have somewhat cleared
the held this year Three or four graduates
have gone from each college and since these
have seldom been the best students IN their
class this has taken ont ~ the market some
OF the surplus supply so. really IN spite
OF my grumhlings about the college girl. there
are toiernbly good opportunities this year
for girls who are willing 10 adjust themselves
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