The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-22

OF educational public schools, which
had been in operation since 1S45, long
before college education was thought
OF for women, and enabled girls to be
prepared for college in the same class
es with their brothers as soon as there
We're colleges for them to go to; ana
second, to the fact that already in 1870,
when colleges opened to women, there
were more women than men teaching
in these same public schools, so that wo-
men graduating from college found in
stant employment. 1t is the good for
tune of American women that, unlike
women in other countries, they did not
have to begin slowly and painfully,
and without state assistance, college
preparatory high schools.
In consequence of these pre-existing
conditions, and also of the sympathetic
attitude of American men toward their
women ian attitude which is in all
probability due also to these same con-
ditions) college women in America out
number by many thousands those of all
other countries taken together Accord
ing to the las: United States educa-
ional report there were, in the year
1899, studying in the United States in
the undergraduate departments of 3S7
coeducational colleges, 16, ,966 women, in
II independent women's colleges 3.799
women, and an affiliated women's col
leges, 1,056 women, a total of u sol wo-
men now in college, women forming
about PA per cent. of all college stu
dents. In the same year there were
studying in colleges and universities
in Great Britain 1850 women, women
forming only 1875 per cent. of all col
lege students. About $500 women were
graduated from American colleges
every year. The United States Commis-
sioner of Education estimates that
there were IN the United States in 1889
three hundred and twenty-three wo-
men in college out of every million wo-
men. Yet although so few in numbers
these 323 women in every million are
swiftly eftecting what amounts to a
social revolution i'm thought and opin-
ion; so overwhelming is the impression
made on us by the college woman that
we seem to lose all sense of perspec-
tive in dogmatizing about her. Even
so acute and friendly an observer as
Prof. Munsterberg forgets that we
have to do with only thirty years of
college education, affecting only an in
iinitesmal fraction OF all women. when
he says. in the June number of the In
ternational Monthly that neither CO.
education nor the equality of opportun-
ity has done anything to eliminate
NAipSf tAitAi iAtANIANNiNN Oh the IeInAle
mind, which are well known the world
over"
But, whatever may be thought of the
unreasonableness of women i'm general
the college woman is at least the most
reasonable and logical OF all women
just as, whatever we may think OF the
health of the women i'm general she is
at least the most healthy of all wo-
men. In each successive year girls are
entering college more athletic and In
better physical condition; each year at
Bryn Mawr the students eat more
pounds OF beef and mutton per head
than in the previous year. This i'm
proved physical condition OF women
comedies I'm time with the improvement
of girls secondary and higher cduca-
ton, ana is. I believe. the direct con-
sequence of IL. The college woman IL
also proving herself the most efficient
OF all women, she makes 50 successful