The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04
WHAT BECOMES OF
 THE COLLEGE GIRL
INTERESTING RADcLIrFE FEW ENTER BUSINESS. CHARTTABLE WORK 

Cambridge, Sept. 3, 1s04-The open Ing of the academic year at Radcliffe College four weeks from now will mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the institution of university training for women in this country, and the occas- ion is likely to renew with vigor the discussion of the usefulness of the high education" The answer to the question, What becomes of the col lege graduate?" is pretty we'll known now everywhere when it refers to men, but the careers into which women en- ter after taking a degree from one of the higher colleges are less generally understood.
 Radcliffe College is unique in that 1t offers girls exactly the same kind of training as Harvard provides for men, Its standards are, then, those recog- nised as the highest in this country; its whole mode of life and system of teaching is that of a mans university; its courses of study are Harvard cour- ses conducted by Harvard professors. So the occupations into which its graduates go may be somewhat dif- ferent from those taken up by the a1umnae of many girls colleges, but they are, perhaps the more significant of the tendencies developed by the higher education of women.
 After the recent discussion of the effect of college education on family life it is interesting to find that seven- teen per cent of Radcliffes graduates have married. thereupon naturally fall- ing out of the ranks of workers in "gainful occupations" as the govern ment statisticians say, and a large pro- portion of the entire body of alumnae are still under twenty-five. full third of the graduates who have not married are not obliged to be lf-supporting. A striking thing about the remaining fifty per cent, is their success in posi- tions of managerial responsibility. The majority still become teachers, for in teaching the value of the college de- gree increases every year not only in securing a position to start with but markedly in gaining promotion to higher responsibilities afterwards. A number of Radcliffe girls who have taken up this profession have already reached excellent positions. ten hold- ing appointments in colleges ana two being at the head of private schools; of the rest a large proportion are set tied in New England schools.
 Miss Mary Goes of the class of 'Sf at Radcliffe is now secretary of her alma mater, and the secretary of the new Simmons College of domestic arts in Boston is also a graduate Of the "womans Harvard" One Radcline girl teaches at the Huguenot Seminary at Wellington, Cape Colony; four are on the instruction board of Wellesley, where a fifth teacher has Radcliffe A. M; one is an assistant professor at vassar and two holders of A. M. de- grees are also there; four are read CTS" in the Bryn Mawr faculty; two are instructors at Smith: one teaches at Wells College; another Radcliffe A. M Is a member of the Milwaukee-Dow- ner teaching force. and number or the colleges alumnae are helping to Americanise the Filipinos through the public school system of our island de- pendencies. Indeed, so prominent Is pedagogy in the activities of the col lege woman nowadays that com mittee of Boston women who are par ticularly interested in the subject have arranged two series of outside lectures especially for the benefit of Radcline students, one on elementary and one on kindergarten work.
 As might be expected from such university life as these young women lead In Cambridge, not few of them go into literary work of one kind or another after graduation. Quite number take secretarial positions and still more become active workers In college settlements. One Radcliffe girl has found a new field for women in the care of the valuable photoghaph- Ic collections of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum and several have been en- gagged in astronomical work at the Harvard Observatory-Mis Henritta $. Lea yitt is winning marked distinction by her discoveries among the stars while representatives of several classes are to be found in the Boston Public Library and like institutions. Not many go into the old-time "profes- sions' which women have begun to seek in competition with men. but the few who have become physicians got their M D. degree from the medical school of Johns-Hopkins University, that of Harvard not admitting women
 Already the names of several authors and editors who were trained at Rad clffe have become we'll known. Beulah NJ Dix in the seven years since her graduation has published four novels besides numerous short stories, has written and seen produced one play.