The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-17
The Ability to Make a Living.

her in college!
The Ability to Make Living.
The idealist may dislike to place as
the next most important benefit of
college education the equipment for
making a living, and he may prefer to
place here some Of the advantages
hereafter listed. But the practical
father will appreciate the Importance
of this to his daughter No man has
assurance that his sixteen-year-old
daughter will have protector through
life; few men have the absolute assur-
ance that in case Of their DEATH the
future of their daughters is provided
for. The average man is haunted with
the fear that something may happen
to wreck his business and to throw his
children upon the world in case he
should die or become disabled. In the
circumstances, what better thing can
the father do for his daughter than to
equip her to make a living? In so
doing, he gives her insurance against
poverty and penury-insurance which
is sure to mature, and which cannot be
Cancelled.
This the college does. 1t takes the
girls who are sent to it, studies them,
discovers their talents and their fail
lngs and then work to magnify the
good and to minimize the evil. 1t
develops the talent of the girl and
makes dynamic the most potential
forces Of her mind The girl who
receives this tuition and is graduated
from college has nothing to fear: she
is endowed with heritage of which
she can never be deprived She will
never have to endure the humiliation of
working in unpleasant conditions
among rough strangers. Hers is the
empire of the mind; the treasury of
the ages is hers, and upon it she may
draw.
The Blessing of Culture.
The next great benefit to the girl
whose right to know finds recognition
is the blessing of culture which comes
to her. Here the ambitious parent
may be at once philosophical and prac-
teal. The girls success in life is not to
depend upon her looks, her wealth or
her birth. 1t will depend upon her
womanliness, which, in turn, is fixed by
her culture. And by this we mean not
the superficial flashness Of casual
knowledge, but that deep appreciation
Of the good, the true and the ideal in
life. Give girl culture and you give
her the Open Sesame to a happy and
successful life. Deny her culture, and
you cannot bestoW upon her ANYTHING
that will take its place
Our schools for girls give this bless
ing to their pupils. They have tradi-
tons, ideals, history. They have their
record Of notable achievements, which
jealousy they guard; they have their
teachers and their libraries; they have
everything that can bring out the best
IN the girl and send her out in life with
the noblest endowment Of womanhood.
Gifts Unnumbered.
Given thus a correct view of life.
the power to make an honorable living
and the means of culture, the girl who
IS graduated from any one of the col
leges listed in this section of The Times
Dispatch does not find her gifts so soon
numbered. More than this, she receives
more than one may list in so brief a
review. She receives the highest moral
training; she receives q new respect for
the health Of her body and new lessons
IN It's care; she receives new vision of
her duty in life and of her obligation
to society; she receives the friendship
OF the best young women of the land;
she receives a discipline which will show
itself in an orderly manner of living;
She receives that joyous heritage Of
knowledge that will console and inspire
her through life; she receives gifts
more precious than those her father can
leave or her future husband bring.
Does this mean too ideal picture
of the COLLEGE graduate and does il