Norwich bulletin., 1913-02-20
WoMEN's COLLEGES FAR
 BEHIND THE TIMES
So Says Dr. Sykes Who Is to Be Pres ident of Connecticut College for Women,

From the courses of study in the
 women's colleges of this country you d think they were meant for girls who were qualifying to enter nunneries,, iDr. Frederick H. Sykes, director of practical arts at Teachers college, told the New York section of the Council of Jewish Women at their meeting at >the west Find synagogue this week.
 Then Dr. Sykes proceeded to say a law other things about female insti- tutions of learnfng-what they aren't and what they ought to be-wi1ich ap- peared to indicate that babies and home making will be star subjects in the curriculum of the projected Con necticut College for Women of which he is to be president when it is built.
 Morton F. Plant, the steamship man. gave $1.000, ,060 toward this college and sleepy old New London, inspired by this example. bestirred itself and raised S1S5.e00 in ten days. It also gave the site, which is on a breezy plateau near the town, overlooking the will be educated to be true mothers of the heme and mothers of the mu- nicipality. Right training in household arts he assured his hearers, would set tie the servant problem once for all.
 Right Training in Home Work.
 When the mistress of a house knows how the work should be done and can turn to and do it and do it well at need there is small danger of domestic friction. Knowledge on the part of the housewife is the best preventive of friction But you cans get efficiency without training, and you can't get training without training, and you can't get training without schools, and how many of our schools teach girls what they ought to know? Teachers college. it is true, is working in that direction, but this institution is a mere drop in the bucket
 Efficiency in the home-that is what we need: just the efficiency that every in his factory If modern women are lost to the home. it is just because through lack of efficiency, and through bad equipment housework Is drudg- cry; The only way of getting women back to the home is to make the work thing of scientific interest and artis- tic interest.
 Wemen's Colleges Have Not Grown.
 The first fault of the home is the way houses are built. That is up to the men who build them, and women are lett to work in these ramshackle, in- sect-infested buildings on which the men continue to draw 10 per cent. on the strength of the marble entrance We want schools to train women to plan and build their own houses and schools to train them to take care of them. The trouble with our women's colleges is that they were organized on the lines mems colleges were organiz- ed upon-but while the mens colleges have grown with the times, have sur rounded themselves with schools for technical training in practical things, the womenss colleges have remained largely institutions of book learning"
 Dr. Sykes wouldn't condemn women to stay In the home, though; he wants the taking care of it to be made so easy that they would have loads of time for other things.
 And as a matter of fact" he said, even with our present. stupid way of 1oing household thines-doing by hand so many routine jobs that men in their businesses would be doing by so. an active woman . s thrown away in the modern home. So many activities that used to be car fed on in the home are now quite outside it. However the subways and elevated roads and the streets are but corridors of our homes, and won,an's sfforts are needed there. Why don't He, 10 rinstance. train women to keep ,ur streets as clean as women keep he streets of Munich7 Why don't we rain them to supervise our food sup dies? The women wouldn't poison children with bad milk.
 Better Eudcation for Girls.
 we need better education for our girls, and We need an enlarged concep- ion of woman's sphere The gravest anger to the institution of marriage hat l can see is the fact that be- 'ause of inability. or because of public ,plnion, so many women are kept from loing outside things Let woman 1 iave her profession or her trade in addition to her scientifically managed iome; let her have full scope for her and energy
 Dr. Sykes looked reproachfuI witen l eIn cone. after the lecture. asked him l he believed in woman suffrage.
 Why, Of course" he said "Didn'r | 'eu see 1t eezing cut all over me? I | lida't mention it today because 1t | wasn't in the topic But the vote why Us an inevitable part Of weman's ad- | 'ancement New fork Tribune,
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