Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-03
COLLEGE COURSE.
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women to accept husbands whom they
do not respect and love and whom
they would not marry except to escape
life of poverty, the home and the
family are not likely to be model
or to furnish an ideal.
zone of the great arguments OF the
higher education for women IN my
judgment is the importance it gives
her in the choice of the kind OF lie
she is to lead.
I'VE cannot be blind to the general
movement in favor of opening more
and more occupations, not dependent
on physical strength of the female sex
Il doubt if we can estimate the
enormous advantage that the present
generation has enjoyed and tnat tne
future genertionS are to pront Dy III
the increasingly sound and thorough
education Of the mothers OF famlles.
II do not think we can estimate the
increased happiness that men ana Wo-
men have experienced, who as nus
bands and wives, have enjoyed the
higher sense of companionship that is
made possible by the intellectual SYM
pathy and association of ideas between
two thoroughly educated people.
"As life wears on and the active joys
that wear away with young woman
hood and Young manhood disappear
and the time Of quiet leisure extends
itself in ones life, the purely intel
lectual enjoyments become greater;
and if one has a mind trained for use
in solving Intellectual problems and in
dealing with the philosophy of history,
the study of science and the pursuit of
art, her life is richer. her means of
self entertainment largely increased
and the possibility of serene old age
made much greater.
Before I close I wish to call attention
to one advantage that l think there is
in the independent woman's college. II
seems to me that there must be a close
analogy in the benefits derived from the
associations of life in Bryn MaWr and
those which every graduate of college
and university like Yale values even more
highly than he does the mental discipline
and learning which he acquires from his
college course
1.-THE friendships that are formed in
college by an association of four years at
a time of life when our characters are
DelHP formed, wien we arc Hot Oii
enough to have had our selfish tenden-
cies indurated, when we respond more
quickly to the emotions, when our ideals
of friendship and our actual friendships
are more nearly the same, are more en-
during than friendships formed thereaf-
ter. They are friendships that bear the
tooth of time and the rust Of absence.
There is one danger of college edu-
cation and four years life under college
Influences that 1t seems wise to warn
against. 1t is the danger of discomfort
with the surroundings of the home to
which a college girl goes back after
graduation and the yielding to the feeling
that her own town or city does not offer
the opportunities to which she is entitled
to in the use of the education which she
has acquired. This is not the right re-
suit of the higher education.
"A young lady with higher education
has much to learn after graduation in
the homely details and the drudgery of
ordinary life and the sooner she learn
it the happier she will be and the earlier
she can adapt to it's highest use the
knowledge and the mental training ac-
quireu in college"