The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-06
EDUCATION NOT HEALTH MENACE
NAsHVILLE's WOMAN COLLEGE PRESIDENT SAYS A MISTAk-
 EN IDEA PREVAILS.
That Higher Education Is an Injury to the Health of Women-Thirty- Year Trial Is Proo;.

New Haven, Conn, March 5.-"Thir-
 ty years ago the prediction was made | that the higher education was foster. ing blow to the health of women"
 said Miss Laura Drake Gill. president of the College for Women, Sewanee. Tenn. in addressing the eleventh an Dual Religious Education Association convention today But figures show that only a very small percentage have impaired health.
 Later the cry was that college
 women were not marrying early enough, or if married they did not have children enough. Again figures show that while college women marry a little later in life, they finally mar ry in the same proportion as their nearest female blood relations who were not college graduates and thas they have relatively larger families; larger percentage are boys and their children have better health"
 As to the economic status of col lege women, Miss Gill said inquiry shows that they are not reaping the return for the captal invested in their training. One trouble is that the greater number of graduates have gone into teaching. The non-teaching occupations give better salaries. more rapid advancement and greater Op- portunities"
 Miss Frances Cummings of the in. ter-collegiate bureau of occupation in New York, said college graduates are taking more interest in social serv- ice and that during the last two months l,l75 persons applied for work of this character.
 D. J Fleming of Lahore India. told of social service among oriental stiL dents, saying that the western idea of service had penetrated the far east and is influencing the breaking down of casts.
 Speaking on Who Should Not Go to College" Edwin A. Kirkpatrick of Fitchburg, Mass, said there were no standards by which society could se- lect young people for higher educa- tion. The best method was to let the young people select for them selves. This would be done by not only providing an attractive form Of education but in bringing into prom thence the natural difficulties that must be overcome il gaining real cul- ture The importance of degrees should be dertcated from, not empha- sized.
 The first public session was held in Wolsey Hall at Yale tonight and was largely attended. Speakers were President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale, President c. F. Thwing of Western Reserve University, Prof T. G. Soares of Chicago University and Dean Brown of the Yale divinity school.
 Mir. Soares said there was a wide spread feeling that we need a ginuine revival of religion Nothing but the motive power that comes from the fear and love of God can meet the evils and dangers of modern life This revival cannot be a mere wave of en- thusiasm, 1t must be an educational process. eh said
 Prof w. E Bailey of Yale discuss ing the higher cost of college edu- cation today said it had increased somewhat, but in the same propor- ten as the cost of living. The rec ords show. he said, that the expense of those who maintain a high scholap ship standing is less tha nthose who do not, indicating that as class room standard increases expenses are les sened.