The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-12-22
after CRAOU-
ALTON.
OCCUPATIONS OF GIRL STUDENTS
WHEN EDUCATED.
Large Percentage Take Up the occu-
patton of Teaching and Other
Light Work-Many Get
Married.

"What becomes of the college girls
Why, nothing very unusual happens to
them" said college president They
scatter all over the country and dc
nothing particularly sensational.
1--WE just been looking over the class
book of class that has been out OF
college ten years and the statistics
show strong tendency toward teach
ing and travel. There were about las
in the class when it graduated and up
to date only Al husbands have been
acquired
"One-third of the class has travelled
abroad, while all but 80 mention teach.
ing and tutoring. About So have done
graduate work at other schools and
colleges.
What the girls themselves regard
as the most important incident or spot
in the ten years since their gradua-
ton varies as much as the girls them
selves. Married on the hottest day
you ever saw to the best fellow re-
cords one. Married a lieutenant in
have lived in trunk in various places
as near the seacoast as possible
writes another.
"One young woman writes tersely:
My native town can boast but one
sane college woman and my family
questions that Another records: Had
an attack of typhoid fever at Constan-
tinople which necessitated a French
hospital, Greek physician. nurse
who spoke German and Turks to carry
Sedan chairs
"A model aunt endeavoring to show
four sisters how to bring up children.
frankly records another graduate.
Last two years occupied with clerical
work, household cares and an ad-
vanced course in measles Is another
record. Bookbindfng has been the oc-
cupation of one young woman.
Here's young woman whose spe-
cialty has been surgery, and she has
performed a difficult operation on the
maharani at the palace of the mahara-
jah of Oorcha. And here is girl who
has evidently made up her mind that
she is going to be spinster, for she's
adopted a little girl
This is the summing up of another:
Spent last ten years in having surgi-
cal operations, writing books and mu>
sic and learning to ride a buckinG
broncho.' The girl who writes this has
q keen sense of kumor: After two
years of nervous exhaustion got mar
lied and am now emulatiAg THE Com
muter's Wife" in building house and
garden And look at this girl. After
acquiring various degrees on deep sub
iects and writing a learned thesis, she
says her present occupation is nurse
maid and housekeeping.
"T defy anyone to make thrilling
tale out of ten years in private
school, wrRes one young woman, ano
another gives evidence that teaching
has not been an unmixed joy by writ
ing: For year taught everything un
der heaven, and now my specialtiee
HAYES immered down to Greek anS
culture
Packed and unpacked,' is the brief
history of another
1.-The most enthusiastic naturalist
in the state of Vermont is another re-
cord Been doing a little illustrating
bear shooting and chaperoning, med
estly writes one young woman WHY
has really achieved considerable fame
as an artist.
1.-THE pathetic record of another is
Have achieved neither fame nor mat.
r1mony, but belong to many societies
most of them respectable
But there is one feature about the
history of this class that is worth not
Eng Nearly every member of it has
been busy in one way or another. II
they have not been earning their liv
ing or studying they have interes'e1
themselves in settlement work, church
work, ETC."