The Ordway new era., 1910-12-30
DOES THE
SWEET GIRL
GRADUATE
MAKE GOOD?

United States, three-fourths
are 30 nice that they are mar.
ried already and the remainder arc
freaks. The married woman don't take
20 much interest In outside af..lrs
and freaks can't accomplish anything.
anyway.
These are the startling words ut
tered recently by Leslie J. Tompkdns.
Q professor In New York university.
and president Of the National Asso-
citation of College Graduates. says .
writer In the Cleveland Leader.
The professor must be one OF the
mon Of today who cling to their old.
fashioned tendencies and believe that
the woman's sphere is in the homo.
Evidently. women's suffrage and Its
correlatives in which women are ta-
king 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
= practically q hopeless case.
Rough on the Women.
This seems to be rather hard on the
geutler sex In this day Of co-education
and sweet girl graduates. 1t Is just
ssventy.two years since Miss Zerniah
Porter, tho nrst woman to graduate
from college. completed her march
through Oberlin college. and since that
time, woman's head has been steadily
nlling with 'ologies and 'isms until
now, many think that she 10 united
for life unless she possesses col.
lege degree Of some kind or other.
In this year of grace the number OF
women studying In Institutions OF
higher education 10 quite half the
total OF men. and coeducational insti-
tutions are in danger Of being
swamped by the hordos Of women
clamorink for admission. The follow
ers OF Zeruiah Porter have come, In
her own university. to number twice
as many al the mon. and many Of the
state universities and smaller colleges
of the middle west are In like case.
In the east. women have. for the most
part, preferred to have their own In
stitutions rather than GO" with any
body and the graduating classes at
such institutions a. Smith. Vassar.
Wellesley. Bryn Mawr and Wells arc
steadily increasing in size A. the
years 60 BY.
Moro 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. or
women In general It has been COM
puted that one out Of every six 10
likely to remain single. II this COM
putation Is compared with that among
tNh ut I'D n
question say is between 80 and Is per
oent., the difference seems enormous.
but there ia 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 1t
may be, It would seem, to an unpreju-
diced observer. that the proportion In
the case of the college woman is rath-
or 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 tho matri-
monial bonds showed a superior in
tslligence. But almost every writer
on the subject seems filled with q de-
sire to prove that thorough knowl-
sdee Of Latin and Greek is not alto
ssthsr 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 Wom-
on, Of this city, said. when told Of
Professor Tompkins statement: Col
ls9e certainly makes girls different.
but not freakish. college woman
viii live a very different life from
that of the woman who has not been
to college. I think that such a state
ment as the professors is unfair and
silly"
Mrs. Malcolm Mcbride, No. 1870 E.
Sixty ninth street. nee Miss Lucia Nc
Curdy. a graduate Of one Of the east
ern colleges, said: such an opinion
II the man who possesses 1t is 4 pro-
fessor. he's not worth paying any at
tention to In that matter. 1t Is
ridiculous statement and that's all
there Is to it,
Miss Adele McKinnie, No. 2049 E.
seventieth street, who, at Vassar. was
the roommate Of Miss Inez Milholland
the young American suffragette whose
activities in that cause have caused
her arrest both in this country and
in England. thought an answer to
Professor Tompkins' statement would
be rather futile. The point of view
was exaggerated. she thought. The in
terest in women's suffrage, is general
at Vassar and Miss McKinnie says
that one of the greatest things one
in college il int elligent in