The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-06-30
EDUCATION BLOW
TO MATR:|M0|NY
Girls Highest Aim Should Be 10
Marry and Be a
Mother.
HIGHER EDUCATION is FATAL
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Only a Small Per Cent of Col.
legc Graduates Ever
Mary.
HIGHER EDUCATION is FATAL
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teachers behind, teachers beside you and
still they come. Another large audience
OF citizens and students filled the audi
torium "Wednesday evening to hear Dr.
g. Stanley Hall, of Clarke University,
Massachusetts, on How to Educate
Girls" Or. Hall has some peculiar Ideas
along this line. and lecture was full Of
interest for teachers and parents
Some few things he said: The question
how to raise girls Is delicate and COM
plicated. Girls and boys differ In weight
and measurement physically. mentally,
morally. The health OF high school girls
should be considered above vail intellec-.
tual training Girls should have the In
flllcnce Of some male teacher ut all
times. There are many arguments In
slsting that 30 much school -gong ruins
the girls health; but statistics show that
higher education makes for health. The
greatest sins OF girls are infanticide and
storytelling. The effect Of higher edu-
cation on marriage Is lamentable
OF ten classes OF Fassar In ten years
after graduation only thirty per cent.
married. or ten classes Of Smith Coll
lege In ten years after graduation forty
two per cent. married. At Wellesley
after seventeen years only forty-one per
cnt. have married. OF the graduates OF
vassar since 1865 ffty-five per cent. are
married or engaged. OF Cornell only
"a per cent. are married or engaeed or
Bryn Mahr only fifteen per cent are
married or engaged, or 10000 girls
8 graduated In all the, female colleges in
ten years only twenty three and and a
one-third arc married or engaged. OF
male graduates only. fifty per cent mar
~. the others remain old bachelors.
This. Of course, is shavings5a serious ef-
feet upon the population OF tho country.
The age OF greatest fecundlty In wo-
man is nineteen years. in man twenty
seven and onc-half years. If the ages
#of man and wife average fifty-six they
will produce more offspring
Every girl should be trained to marry.
and to becomesa mother. Every branch
of her education should have this aim
and end.
Every girl should keep holy the
monthly sabbath in her life and retire
from the world forget all intellectual
trimming and rejoice that she Is a wo-
+ man and can become q mother.
Girls should be raised in the country.
not in tho crowded cities. They should
I have plenty OF sleep. There should be
schools FOR manners and correct deport-
ment. They should be taught rhythm.
regularity. reverence. Taught religion,
not theology poetry, nature study. bot-
any. animal life, about the greatest lead.
ers OF the world. sentiment, pedagogy,
some modern langna ges; domesticity
should be taught them.
Leave out Latin, physics, chemistry
and many other things, OF which girls
have no earthly need.
Or. Hall closed his great lecture with
beautiful picture OF tho Madonna in
her simple home In Nazareth, and of3the
worship accorded her in all ages.
One may study II he pleases or walk
around and drink in inspiration from
these beautiful buildings and the sur
rounding mountain scenery Certainly
this is tho ideal place for a summer
school, and the teachers arc loud in
their praises Of the city, university,
people and environments. In former
years there has been much complaint
about the fare at the boarding houses
and the crowded condition Of the rooms
occupied by the teachers. This year
there Is "a decided Improvement along
both lines and all seem perfectly salts
fled.
.ts KNOWLEDGE GETTERs.
1t would be hard to find more en-
4 thusiastic, eager, knowledge getting
set Of men and women as those to be
seen on the university campus.
The majority Of the teachers have Sc
lected certain classes and arc attending
those sessions regularly, others are
drifting first from one class then to an-
other The programme Is SO arranged
that one many. attend classes every hour
from until $3.50 and never go to the
same class twice for the entire four
weeks.
35 Mr.. Hill, assistant superintendent OF
the Richmond schools. is giving the
teachers an excellent course In primary
methods in arithmetic. lie hopes to
cover the whole four years course His
classes arc very largo and extremely
enthusiastic. gi3
Thursday evening the teachers arc
stcreopticon lecture, Tho Inferno,' by
Professor Currell, Of Washington and
Lee Univeslry.
On Friday evening Mrs. William NJ,
strotner Will give "Inoch Arden" III
the auditorium.
An excursion to Luray Cave is being
arranged for Saturday. July 18th. Later
on there will be an excursion to WASH
ington.
DRAWING AND ART,
One Of the most attractive place Is tho
excellent studio of T. Graham Cootes
and Rca Sloan Bredin, In the draught-
Ing room of the mechanical library, More
than one hundred teachers are registered
already for this course. Tho work en-
braces drawing, painting, Illustration,
designing and composition A. model In
n costume poses every sIlOTIlU6 fdHu lic
afternoons are devoted to landscape
work.
The instructors are very pleasant. Mr..
Bredin Is a young illustrator and painter
of ability, and has been particularly sue
&cessful as u teacher.
Mr.. Cootes is a Bachelor and Master
OF Arts Of tho University Of Virginia, re-
,ceived his education under the best known
teachers In New York. lie has been
engaged In practical illustrating and
poster work. For the last two years he
has conducted a private class in New
York f
Mr.. Cootes is extremely populariSwth
the "MethodItes", and the studio is filled
at all hours with pupils and Visitors.
9 Mr.. Iytterback has not been able to
come to Charlottesville this week, IN his
absence Mrs, Moffett is teaching q. large
class, drawing according to the Augsburg
/. system, In every class where lis nm
nounced that Mrs, Moffett Will teacll,
there Is not 4 vacant seat and usually
many teachers arefound standing, trying
"a catch her words or see what she Is