The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

future generations are to profit by the
increasingly sound and thorough edu-
cation OF mothers OF families.
7 do not think we can estimate the
increased happiness that men and
women have experienced who as hus-
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
The higher education of woman
should be sought wholly without regard
10 a professional or matrimonial future
The mental discipline that it affords.
the mental pleasures that II makes POS
s-blee the enjoyment Of reading and
study that it invites are enough in and
OF themselves to be compensation for
the effort in securing it
Makes a Richer Life
-As life wears on and the active joys
that wear with youth and young wo-
manhood and young manhood disappear
and the time of quiet leisure extends
itself in ones life the purely intellect
UaI Joys become better; and IL one has
a mind trained for use in solving in
telIectuaI 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 entertainment
largely increased and the possibility OF
q serene old age made much greater
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ton TO one advantage that l think
there Is in the independent woman's $
college II may be that my view OF
this is inspired by that sense of in
faIioiHty which DR. David Starr Jor-
dan ascribes as a result of training at
Harvard or Yale, but whatever its
cause cannot help giving expression
tC it It seems to me that there must
be a close analogy in the benefits de-
rived from the associations OF life in
Byrn Nawr and those which every
graduate Of a college and university
Ike Yale values even more highly than
he does the mental discipline and the
learning which accrues from his college
course
College Friendships.
The friendships that are formed in
college. by an association OF four years
az a time OF life when our natures are
mallea5le, when our characters are be
irg formed. when we are not old
enough TO have had our selfshness in
6Crated when we respond more quick
" to the emotions, and when our ideals
of friendship and our actual friend
ships are more nearly the same, are
more enduring than friendships formed
thereafter They are friendships that
bear the tooth of time and the rust OF
absence They are friendships that can
be taken up upon moment after an
interval OF 20 years and seem as fresh
ana 6S dS the nuWCE u l-AE
friendship when it first budded-
There is one danger OF a college
education and four years life under
College Influences that it seems wise
10 warn against It is the danger OF
dsscouuent with the surroundings OF the
home to which d college girl goes back
after graduation and the yielding to
the feeling 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
Il gives her, after she is settled at
home again a nil admirari spirit,
longing for something she does not
have, a spirit Of criticism toward ev-
erythIng which surrounds her and q
consequent inability TO contribute to
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 honeIy details and the drudgery Of
ordinary life and the sooner she learns
il, the happier and the earlier she can
adapt TO its highest use the knowledge
and the mental training acquired in
COLLEGE"