The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-03
TAFT TALKS TO
GIRL STUDENTS
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enormous advantage that the present
generation has enjoyed and that tho fu-
ture generations are to profit by In the
ton of the motht,s OF families.
Il don't think we can estimate the in
creased happiness that men and women
have experienced who as husbands and
wives have enjoyed the higher sense of
companonshlp that Is made possible by
the intellectual sympathy and association
of Ideas between two thoroughly educated
people.
"The higher education of woman should
be sought wholly without regard to a
professional or matrimonial future. The
tai pleasures that II makes possible; the
enjoyment of reading and study that It
invites. are enough In and of themselves
10 be compensation for the effort In Sc
curing II.
Intellectual joys Best.
''As life wears on and the active years
wear away, as youth and young woman
hood and young manhood disappear, and
the time OF quiet leisure extends itself In
ones life. the purely intellectual joys be-
trained for use in solving intellectual
problems and In reading the philosophy
of history. in the study OF science, the
pursuit OF art. her life is richer her
means of self lf-cntertainment largely In
creased and the possibility of serene
old age made much greater, =
Before close / wish TO call attention
TO one advantage that 1 think there is
in the independent womans college. II
may be that my View Of this is inspired
by that sense OF infallibillty which DIR.
David Starr Jordan ascrlOes as result
OF the training al Harvard or Yale, but
whatever its cause. L cannot help giving
expression to 1t, 1t seems TO me that
there must be a close analogy I'm the
benefits derived from the associations OF
life in Bryn Mawr and those which every
graduate of a college and university like
Yale values even more highly than he
does the mental discipline and the learn
ing which he acquires from his college
course.
college, by an association OF four years
at time OF life when our natures are
malleable, when our characters are being
formed. when we arc not old enough to
have had our selfishness indurated. when
when our Ideals OF friendship and our
actual friendships arc more nearly the
same, are more enduring than friendships
formed thereafter. They are friendships
OF absence. They are friendships that can
be taken up upon moment, after an
interval of twenty years and seem as
fresh and as fragrant as the flower oil
the friendship when IL first budded
There Is one danger OF college edu-
cation and four years life under college
against. II Is the danger OF discomfort
with the surroundings OF the home TO
which college girl goes back after
graduation and the yielding 10 the feel
Ing that her own town or city does not
offer TO her the opportunities which she
Is entitled TO in the use of the education
which she has acquired 1t gives her.
after she is settled at home again: nil
admirari spirit, longing for something
she does not have, a spirit OF criticism
toward everything which surrounds her.
and a consequent inability TO contribute
10 the happiness OF those with whom she
lives or comes In contact This is not the
right result OF the higher education.
"a young lady with a higher education
has much to learn after graduation In
the homely details and the drudgerIes OF
ordinary life; and the sooner she learns
1t the happier and the earlier she can
adapt TO its highest use the knowledge
and the mental training acquired in COL
Ieges