The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01
TO TEACH C0URTING.
oorIEGE SAID TO HAVE BEEN Es-
,rABLIsHED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

courses Before They Get the De-
rree of Doctor of Love.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Hereafter when a young man throws
himself at the feet of young woman
and pleads in ardent terms the depths
If his love he may be asked to show
his certificate. Lovemaking is to be
Elevated to the plane of the sciences.
A college has been established at At
wood. Tenn, where degrees will be
inferred, and if in the future you
rote D. L. after a name you will know
the person bearing it has been a stu
dent there The letters D. L. stand
FOR Doctor of Love, and that is what
PROT. T. ]. Brooks, who has established
the school, proposes to make of all
those who enroll their names on his
roster.
L The unique seat of love training is
known as the College of Courtship. The
8 aim of the founder is to help all those
whose amatory education has been
reelected. He has surrounded himself
with corps of competent instructors
a and is already for the spring rush.
: will be taken through several degrees
before they become Doctors of Love.
The college course is to consist of four
rerms. There will be an elective course
for the degree of Bachelor of Hearts,
IN consist of three terms, as well as a
POSTGRADUATE course for the degree of
Experienced Benedict
In the freshmen term the studies,
which are most non-elective, will con-
sd
Yneteorology, language, tokens, diagno-
sis. driving with one Notwithstanding
the choice of a horse-botany, deport-
1nent. tinance-as applied to candy
flowers and theater tickets-the man.
agement of gas jets and the control of
clocks.
Details of the Curriculum.
During the second term the students
will take up the art of salutation, style
in letter writing, engagement rings,
the mana cement of younger brothers,
the dangers of the tintype and the law
of breach of promise. During this
term, too, attention will be paid to gen.
eral outdoor work, and there will be
moonlight excursions and visits OF OBJ
servaton to the parks.
In the senior year the prescribed
studies will follow the same general
line. but in addition each student will
he required to show familiarity with
his or her studies and must be able to
satisfy the examiners in the three sub
jects of ability to arouse interest, the
discourag cement of rivalry and the art
Of expressing affection" The degree
Of Bachelor of Hearts will only be
granted when a student can bring for
ward girl who believes in him under
all circumstances, while the post-grad-
uate degree of Experienced Benedict
will only be conferred upon graduates
of the college who, after a year of
marriage can display certificates,
signed by their wives, making affidavit
that they have never regretted their
choice.
Few Understand LOvemaking.
The plan of the College of Courtship
is based on Prof. Brooks belief that
the average young man does not know
4 how to make love to the average
young woman and that the young wo-
man of to-day does not understand the
art of being loved by the modern young
man. In his opinion the manifesto
tons of love- of tenderness, and of de-
Votion are matters which can be
taught to those whose bashfulness or
lack of initiative prevents them from
seeking their affinity in love. Sponta-
neity is all very we'll for those who
those who are without this accomplish
ment a course of scientific lovemaking
is the best substitute. The chief OBJ
ject of the faculty of the College of
Courtship will be to reduce loVemak-
ing to an exact science. The matter
has been so carefully studied by the
skilled psychologists attached to the
college that they are now able to pred
icate with mathematical exactness,
just what a girl will do under certain
circumstances and what reply she will
make to the preliminary advances OF
a student of the opposite sex who fol-
lows the prescribed course in his love-
making.
Mistaken Ideas About Girls.
The faculty particularly wishes to
rid the public mind of certain set no
tons concerning girls and their ways
which they believe to be erroneous. For
instance, they wish the students, ear
ly in their freshmen year, to abandon
the idea that the average girl doesn't
know her own mind for two minutes
together. Prof. Brooks says that as
result of only two months instruction
at the College of Courtship he is now
able to exhibit several girl students
who can maintain decision for thirty
minutes without winking or drawing
a fresh breath. He hopes to be able to
increase this period of endurance to
an hour later on Prof. Brooks is
equally proud of another student of
the same sex, who when asked her
age, will tell it correctly, instead of
saying; How old do you think l
ann" These two instances, he says,
afford valuable evidence of the work
that can be accomplished by scientific
instruction in the preliminaries of love-
making
1t is an axiom of this college that
attempting to make love to young
women because they do not know
what answers they will receive. For
this reason the faculty is bending
every effort to the task of producing
a class of young women which can
always be counted upon to make given
replies to set questions.
Lectures Upon Language.
The work of developing this ability
In both sexes is begun early in the
freshman year, when lectures upon
language" are delivered. The text
Dock upon this subject was specially
prepared for the classes by Professor
Addict author of that wellknown
monograph entitled Studies In the
Molar Dentition of Ducks" The OBJ
Ject of the work is to provide a series
OF carefully planned converse lions,
so that students, while reciting their
lessons in pairs will be enabled to
make love to one anoter in the prop
ef' scientific and collegiate way. I'm
oer the caption of How to Make Love