Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1910-12-29

are so nice that they are mar
ried already and the remainder are
freaks. The married woman don't take
so much interest in outside AFFAIRS
and freaks can't accomplish anything,
anyway.
These are the startling words ut
Rered recently by Leslie ]. Tompkins,
a professor in New York university,
and president of the National Asso-
citation Of College Graduates, says a
writer in the Cleveland Leader.
The professor must be one of the
men of today who cling to their old
fashioned tendencies and believe that
the woman's sphere is in the home.
Evidently, women's suffrage and It's
correlatives in which women are ia
ldng such an active interest at pres
snt must be especially obnoxious to
the professor, for, according to him.
the college woman who doesn't marry
is practically a hopeless case.
Rough on the Women.
This seems to be rather Lard on the
Kentler sex In this day of co-education
and sweet girl graduates. 1t is just
seventy-two years since Miss Zerniah
Porter, tho first woman to graduate
from college, completed her march
through Oberlin college, and since that
time. woman's head has been steadily
n1ling with ,ologies and isms until
now, many think that she is untitled
for life unless she possesses col
1ege degree of some kind or other.
In this year Of grace the number Of
women studying in institutions OF
higher education is quite half the
total of men, and co-educational insti-
tutions are in danger OF being
swamped by the hordes of women
clamoring for admission. The follow
ers of Zerniah Porter have come, in
her own university, to number twice
as many as the men, and many Of the
state universities and smaller colleges
of the middle west are in a like case.
In the east, women have, for the most
part, preferred to have their own in
stitutions rather than CO. with any
body and the graduating classes at
such institutions as Smith, Vassar,
Wellesley. Bryn Mawr and Wells are
steadily increasing in size as the
years go by.
More Marry Among Poor.
1t has been pointed out by census
statisticians that many more women
marry among the very rich or very
Door than In the middle class. OF
women in general 1t has been com
puted that one out of every six is
likely to remain single. II this com.
putation Is compared with that among
college women, which students Of the
question say is between so and rs per
cent, the difference seems enormous
but there is no way of telling just
how many women marry in the class
from which the college women comes
which is made up of neither the very
rich nor the very poor. Whatever 1;
may be, It would seem, to an unpreju
diced observer, that the proportion in
the case of the college woman is rath
er low, though every feminine A. b
may rage at the idea.
There is certainly no disgrace In
remaining unmarried and doing q
share of the worlds work in ways
other than domestic. Many have ar
gued that an avoidance Of the matri
monial bonds showed superior in
telligence. But almost every writer
on the subject seems filled with de
sire to prove that a thorough knowl
edge of Latin and Greek is not alto
gether Incompatible with the weak
ness Of love and a wreath of orange
blossoms.
Says Statement Is Unfair.
Miss Bess Philips, president of the
senior class at the College for Won
en-, of this city, said, when told o
Professor Tompkins' statement: "Col
lege certainly makes girls different
but not freakish. A college woman
will live a very different life from
that Of the woman who has not beer
to college 1 think that such a state
ment as the professors is unfair On,
silly"
Mrs. Malcolm Mcbride, Nc. 1870 E
Sixty-ninth street, nee Miss Lucia Nc
Curdy, a graduate of one Of the east
ern colleges, said: "Such an opinion
is not worth bothering about. Evel
II the man who possesses It is pre-
fessor, he's not worth paying any al
tention to in that matter. 1t Is
ridiculous statement and that's al
there is to IT,"
Miss Adele McKinnie. No. 2049 4
Seventieth street, who. at Vassar. wa
the roommate Of Miss Inez Milhollant
the young American suffragette who's
activities in that cause have cause
her arrest both in this country an
in England, thought an answer I
Professor Tompkins' statement woul
be rather futile The point OF vieV
was exaggerated. she thought. The II
terest In women's suffrage is genera
at Vassar and Miss McKinnie say
that one of the greatest things on
gains In college Is an intelligent II
terest in broad topics, equal franchis
rights in particular. But" she say
there is no use in saying these thing
in answer to such an attack, becaus
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