New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-12
OF INTEREST
TO WOMEN.
COLLEGES FOR GIRLS.
Fesrer Athletics and More Men
Teachers Needed. SAYS Hiss Tucker.

The boosted educational opportunities offered 10
The women OF America Jared rather hardly yes1eF-
day afternoon at the hands Of Miss Alice Blyt
Tucker, dean of Adelphi College. who addressed
the Mothers Clue college Educauon 4'i
Girls"
college education she said offers to young
.-or,en the best available training for the uses
OF life but not yet the ideal college for women
exist"
Miss Tucker found serious fault both with the
exclusively woman's college and the co-educatonai
s,sfifutjon of learning her main objection TO the
latter being its plethora of women professors.
THE majority OF the faculty IN woman col
1egeH she said should be men. After the years
spent in a preparatory school. where the influence
OF women instructors has moulded me elrt
thought and action, she needs, II she is TO &C.
xeIop mental strength The objective viewpoint ana
comprehensive perspective that a mans teacAlng
suggests. 1t cannot bs denied that the instruction.
Of women teachers either verges on the sentimental
or puts emphasis on the letter to the neglect or
the spirit. The kind Of instruction the girls
are likely 10 call lovely until its sweetness cioys
end the other dry. Both fatal to the strong
original grasp of the great truths which literature
and history present OF course there glorious
exceptions. but years OF experience as student,
taacher and college executive official have con-
s WINGED that teachers OF the subjects that
We call the humanities fncomParably SD
perier to women. Mathematics and science may
be taught by women; but as these subjects occupy
q small place in a college curriculum 1t follows
that majority of the faculty should be men.
The fact that this is the in q co-educatlonal
college is greatly in Its favor, but IN co-educa-
fionaI college the wonens organizations lack the
spontaneity originality and independence that are
found in colleges exclusively for women They
tend toward imitation of the mems organizations,
and fail 70 develop the capable type Of woman
that the modern world demands"
These two things Miss Tucker considers the most
serious counts against the college training OF worl-
9en as it exists to-day, but they not the only
ones. The curricula their mental side she finds
fairly satisfactory but The physical training she
considers to be all wrong.
TT produces muscle and Drawn" she told the
Tnothers. but few of those qualities Of bodily
excellence that our best finishing schools seem able
develop. The fine restraint OF body that produces
esness OF p9fe and b Taee OF sng tsnsnT @
necessary to success in the held ana gyIIlfna-
basketball team cannot enter or leave room with
grace and dignity. ,,.., -
not enough 10 INSTRUCTION in prscticai hygiene. A.
Adelphi College We have introduced SIX wees
and It is surprising md how little the girls know
about the cara of their bodies when they come 70
xhe college, ara how much better they take care OF
themselves aftsr having completed this course;
spDroves They have abolished them, she stated,
e in conse0rence On the contrary the
zrsduates pass the examinations for entrance into
In PuDG 56Oi gTad1ates of other schools and
now hold some OF the positions in the city. It
ates look better and feel better at the conclusion
Of the four years courss taan they did at the pc
ginning.
examinations may be useful for men. said Miss
Tucker 1T prepares them. perhaps. for the battle
Of life ought not 10 enter the battle OF
life. believe in RusEins ideal for women as SCI
forth in Sesame and Lilies. They should De eou-
Gated for the home and for the state. They should
20 back from college to the home life, ana be
guardians and directors Of the home and OF the
community
science in colleges. but thinks that every girl,
whether she is the daughter of a queen or OF =
day laborer should learn something Of this science
at home.
Lille Devereux Bake took strong exception 10 the
implied slight upon the female intellect;
IF YOU were take 4 set OF boys she said
and tell them that they could never expect 10 be
anything or do anything: if you were 20 teach
them fe crochet, and con6ne their bodies IN ught
bands. while an equal number OF boys WAS rnmping
End playing baseball and riding horseback ana lock-
3ng forward TO future of great achieyeUent, I
think you would find, when both sets had reached
the age Of twenty years, that they we're not much
like each other. That is something like what we do
with boys and girls. but. even as it is, don't find
that all men are wise, and all women tools