The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30

COlIeSeS IOT WOMEN
are called a historic blunder by
~ Roswell II. johnson and Bertha
Stutzmann Of the University Of
Pittsburg. As already related In THE
SUM-. they have been studying the
statistics of marriages and births
among the graduates OF Wellesley
College, and their conclusion is that
the birth rate is abnormal.y low. Their
report Is published in the June num-
Der Of the Journal OF Heredity Of
Washington.
Three causes are given to explain
this condition. They are lack OF CO.
education, the failure to make students
DESTROYS OF having homes Of their
own and efficient in these homes, and
tho excessive limitation Of the I u
dents opportunities for social life.
The Indictment against separate COL
leges for women printed In the Jour
nal Of Heredity says:
"They 1.-THE separate colleges1 arose
because "a women We're debarred
from the Eastern mems colleges-a
most unfortunate circumstance, (2)
because the mental capacity OF
women was at that time all too fire.
Quently considered to be too inferior
for college training. It was there
fore q natural result that colleges for
women should be established. But
unfortunately. to correct the current
depreciation of woman's mentality II
wa thought necessary to give her the
same curriculum as that used by men
THE results Of the experiment, how
ever, have been utterly i~nconclusive,
because no direct comparison OF the
men and women was possible. 1t was
in the coeducational colleges that the
test was conducted under satisfactory
conditions. To-day 1t Is well known
that the women capture more thar
their proportion Of the honors ant
average higher in their marks. L
there any real reason. then, for these
Eastern separate women's colleges &c
continue along the same o Nd lines
with the unsatisfactory result thai
we have seen?
1.-THE stubborn resistance OF these
colleges to the introduction of educa'
ton for domestic efficiency, especially
in the care OF the infant, has beer
amazing. They are thereby neglect
ing one OF the most important factor
In a woman's sound education.
'May 1t not be that this Ill adjusted
education is partly responsible for tn
fact that Cattell finds in American
men Of science at the time Of his In
curry that those having college gradu
ates as wives had 2.02 children each
while those with wives of partial col
lege training had 2.l2 children an,
those with wives of no college educa
ton 2.35 children?
1.-THE very proper preference u
many intelligent men for girls traine
70 be efficient wives n mothers !
one Of the causes of the low marriag
rate and late time OF marriage OF tn
graduates Of the women's college
Tho trained girl can and will MARI
a man with an income too restricte
for the support of an inefficient wife
RULES In force at various women
colleges, which lead to social limita
lions, moi to say asceticism, throw II
barriers to the social opportunities
the students. And this during the crit
zeal years OF maximum attractivenes
when so many of the non-collegiat
girls are marrying or making acquair
tances leading to marriage. To TAX
specific instance, at Wellesley n
young men are allowed to call on
student during her free day. Sur
day.
"Since. then. the separation OF sexs
In different colleges and the failure
teach girls domestic science are cor
trary To the interests Of -ociety ar
the race. should We not urge:
"(1) Parents to send their dausf