Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-08-16

clark University at Worcester has q
summer school. before which. on July %
President q Stanley Hall made an inter-
eStiHE discourse about the education of
woman. Dr. Hall j. in the business of
education. and believes in it thoroughly.
He believes heartily in educating girls,
ont has his doubts. as many Others have.
whether the sort Of education which IL
low lavished on American girls Is doing
them good, and benetiting the race ana
The nation. He is not sure that il the
light sort Of education for girlS. Enr must
any on. blame him for ms mlsgiVings.
for the education of women on modern
lines is still in the experimental stage.
and many. even uf those VINO U"sh
idIdcSt I'll. ii. dIe not sure yet whether
he "tc ',".nc 5000 or hatm.
INN ~ ! cSncCiaily concerns himself
.J ,nc education that girls get IN cor
eyes He has studied statistics in the Ell
ont tn find out about the health Of the
'ollcGe women ana what percentage o.
hem marry. and though the statistics he
Iu0ted are not conclusive nor especially
convincing. as far AS they 50 they maxS
some what for dISquietidc But Dr. Tan
himsclf did not seem to trust them, blt
the GiSt of tie figures nc quoted va
hat less than half of the college women
had good health: that less than a thta
If them married. that those who mafriet
married late. ana had too few children
and of those few lost Tar too many 70
infancy. Statistics. or Observation 4.
something ndi ltN ntUl ~ continue
he current higher education was OF httie
Use in training mothers. Woman co.
.eges" he said. have done little or noun
ng for the proper education or Woin.tn
While / symnathize Win tne
claims OF women. and Yield TO no one -
admiration OF their work in the coiests
I looks AS if the colleges were tfaiilins
or independence and support ano csiipa''
motherhood to take care of ifseii
He doesn't believe in that. B0okishn IN.
ne says. is a bad sign in q strf' "a
must educate chiefly for motherilv,o
'oeducation should cease at dawn OF d"
essence The present CIVILIZATION
harder on woman, who is less adapted y
he world. than on men. we must H. ~
recognize that riches are harder gu "
han poverty. Such things ne asset ,a.
md goes on to give his IDEAS aoout WI" ~
1 college for girls ought To pe' " oM
rst aim should be health. how u shosn
70 a place Of cottage homes, not 700 "a.
rom a city. with pets. Sardehihs, .,,,s
Vt outdoor exercise and plenty oi lid mid
or il. !. place where regularity and
g exercised. idlcness cuitiValeu' Snd
every provided for in every wa! ,,.snn
l, would have the students learn reus.o"
ndir,entary mathematics and physMs;.
title chemistry and good deal OF ,h.m
ut would take care not TO nave rage
,pprcsSed by cooks. THINK Oh ~, as
resident writing such prcsctipuia ted
nat. After all. though. il has pesn i1 ION
hat President Eliot once wanted ~ ,,,,sisal
yhv !, woman who could have music
,dlIcation should want any othei ,inasad
den whose estimate of women - u
n other facts than what inc Sa'u .Ls in
nav have learned out oil thciI po 1,a loss
heir girlhood. seem not always 70 ,.'onen
wise than other men. nor are the wt o;
u,bo,, tbav admire apt to DC Iihe,s
sn,nnr -, s Martin, in Harpe'
Weekly.