The evening world., 1911-03-29
higher education for woman ana
co-sduostion are decreasing the rate
OF marriages. It 10 also decidedly
not bsnsnciai to both sores"

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Of marriages. II 10 also decidedly
not bsnsnciai to both ssnss."
In the sitting OF his home, No,
II 9lonwood venue East Orange. y.
j.. DIR. j. &. Hepburn. ninety-seven
years old and the oldest living gradu-
ate OF Princeton University. so ex.
pressed himself concerning modern
methods OF education. =,
Dr. Hepburn was graduated with the
class OF 1899 OF Princeton, and from ;he
University OF Pennsylvania In 1879 a.
an NJ. ID. For thirty years the aged bu,
hearty doctor OF divinity az well ms
medicine lived in Japan doing mission.
airy work. lie was the nrst white man
to undertake. this work IN Japan and to
translate the Bible In that language.
~ Effect on the Home.
81 do not say. mind you.' said Dr.
Hepburn. that higher education Is not
all right for soma women. but / do
o believe It Is right for all. The
woman's FIRST duty Is toward her home
and children, and the work women are
doing to-day GBd the professions that
are being opened to them through this
very higher education II having a
decidedly III effect on the rome and Is
lettering marriage.
There are women. I have no doubt.
who are fitted for a professional life,
bu, the trouble IL that sending n girl
to college has become a fad. II a
somewhat dangerous fad. too.
"Of course. IN my day at college we
knew nothing about that sort of thing.
Women did not go to college then.
Their place was In the home. but times
thought It possible to study In n class
with "A womsn. To-day they seem TO
think nothing OF It.
Work Excludes Love.
The reason that l say that I think
college Quotations for women are GER
tainly lowering the rate OF marriages
md robbing the world OF many happy
homes is that the woman who goes In
for higher education becomes so utterly
absorbed in her work. her heart and
soul are 40 taken up with u. that she
has no time or room for love or mar
rlngc. Her mission In life becomes
that o' c~ultivating her mind, not OF
making somc good man happy and max.
ing n home for her children.
~ do not believe That you Will And
many men who want to marry s,ronr
minded. too highly educated women
The mans idea OF an ideal wife is one
who depends upon him ia certain ways
leans On him. loves him and lends he,
mind To softer things than the 4ractls,
of medicine and working out problem.
In law, lie does not wish her to re.
spond to his mental attitude with q
mans mind he wants "A feminine mind
n that is what woman was create
for.
when II comes 10 \ matter OF co.
education | have not given the matter
\ great deal Of thought. but, in whnt
time ! have given t, II the proposition
IL not AZ al agreeable 70 me.
There are several reasons Why ! d,
not approve y such an institution. n
the irst place. young men are sent &
college 10 study Gard and work thcy
are getting thelr minds IN training foi
their future cares. Women In mans
college can but divert a young man,
attention from his work. no matter
what any one may say or think on IN,
HlSject. When they are having thei,
rest times, out OF college. is time enougl
for the feminine element, hut don't mi,
% IN the work ~ tho Institution. g.
school II IL another mater. but whe,
ONE .ucs To College me- has beromo .
man ayl De- mean. - bond all his m6nta
faculties 90 the Ho.!; he lg there 10 do
This .t thc oGut ! taink such an al
rangcnon, has on the young mau.
Women Are Coarsened.
'l'He womon are affected. too. trul
Glove that a constant association wit.
weu la college, day after day. ana IN
c'nuat % q wpmaa's mind against tina
o. a mans Is pure TO c1ur,cn her. I
take Cd u ,ao oNcet femin.n,ty "
FROM hcr, for 80 surely as She Is mad,
the wasrH'.ue mode OF thought and M
gHmegt uast have some effect on he
mind end mgHncr, and who want
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