The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-24

| ' Y
 M lege, is a typical college wom-
 am young, enthusiastic, right abreast with the times in every thing, beauti
 fully educated and with a sense of hu-
 nor which is most refreshing.
 1 When mentioned to Miss Hiden that the one thing that I dreaded most in my especial line of endeavor, was a story with high brow" (and of course we | naturally imagine anybody who owns to the exaluted position of dean of
 women'-must be one), and that I all
 ways approached the subject with fear and trembling, she promptly denied that she laid claim to any such alignment.
 and while Miss Hiden Is serious and collegebred, at the same time she soon
 impresses the casual acquaintance with
 the fact that she is also very sympa-
 thetic and human, hence there is no
 need of preliminaries and explanations
 to break the stony sheet of original and
 frozen embarrassment
 Miss Hiden does not wait for questions
 with an air of boredom; she does not send
 the poor interviewer" into despair at
 the hopelessness of informal chattering
 and make her long for the steadiness of
 typewriter page of calculated inquiries:
 there are some 'interviews' that take the
 complexion of an ''oral civil service' ex-
 animation, but with Miss Hiden this was
 not the case, for she is far too southern
 not to be polite and appreciative.
 "Co-edscation," said Miss Hiden, "has
 its advantages for both men and women. |
 l was the one woman in class of 500 1
 me nf .o1s xrha
 for the past six years, taking my B. A. | degree last summer and before that my
 masters degree. Some of these days shall return and take my Ph. D."
 ''Is it that the men set high standard for the women to follow" I asked, "or what?"
 T think it is just the other way" Miss Hidden said quickly. Women make men work harder. They have decidedly re- fning influence over them and the ad- vantage that co-education has for women is that it is the only way that they can be admitted to college privileges accorded men. There are now only three state universities that do not admit women my own state, Virginia, the state of Geor- gia and one other. At Howard college the chair of education which has recentlyj been established and which l love, has enrolled 100 men and 20 young women out of the 300 or more students at the col lege. The chair of education provides unusual college privileges to teachers, cer- them with licenses to teach after four years of college work. certificate pupils is thus entitled to the opportunity Of becoming a high school teacher or a 1 teacher in any college or school. It is a l movement, in other words, against Hitter | acy." II
 The northern colleges accept college graduates from only three southern col eges for women," Miss Hidden continued
 These are Randolph Macon, Agnes Scott, and Sophie Newcomb. The de- oartment of education at Howard is in- tended to give the freshman and sopho- S more years and then the pupil may con- e tinue the junior and senior years at T smith, Wellesley, or any of the other northern colleges, for women. Co-educa- C ton is a mutual check as well as a mu- .ual help to the boy and girl. In the T classes at Columbia, under Dr. Briggs, r he High school authority; pr. McMur- 'ay, and Dr. Fitzpatrick; Dr. Suzzaloo, the now president of the Wash T ngton State university; Dr. John Dewey pr. Northsworthy. full professor takingl Ter Ph. D., at Columbia, and Dr. Stevens, | ! Columbia Ph. D., I consider that have y ,een very fortunate in the advantages I h laye had. I majored in supervision at o and minored in education and b ook my diploma as dean of women in a normal schools and colleges This re- Q luires five years experience before a ! diploma Is granted"
 How do you stand on the suffrage luestion?" I asked.
 T think I may say with impunity that
 have always been a suffragst and an ] lrdent advocate of the Woman's Chris {, ian Temperance union,' Miss Hiden re- l ,lied. That needs an explanation, sup- 'ose, and what I mean is this: When I V vas child growing up into young wom- . lnhood, resented the fact most bitterly 2 hat the state university of my own state !, enied women the privileges 1t granted to q. nen. My brothers could go and do so and ., 70. while was debarred. Taxation with ut representation seemed tyrannical to ne, and I made up my mind that when :.
 grew to womanhood, that If it was pos- 1 ibe was going to the legislature and o hange that. Suffrage is bound to obtain 7 n the south. I may be dead and gone . efore 1t does. but it is inevitable And . vhy not? Women are doing as goodl ., york as men; many of them have tol n houlder the burden of providing for 1r heir families, earning the bread and but n sr and paying taxes on property, and ', hey are not even allowed to attend cer- d ain universities? That is why I say,