The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-10-19
She is an ex-pro-
fessor of the Univer-
sity of Dakota and a
mathematics shark.
She tells of the
: plans of preparation
for the N. A. W. S. A.
convention.

Ernst can back up his statement with
substantial statistics" said Mrs. Nor
gan Il have seen the statement of an
equally reliable authority to the ef-
feet that our insane asylums drew a
large majority of their women recruits
from the ranks of the farmers wife,
who passes tedious hours in the rou-
tine of the kitchen. with little or no
outside interests. few recreations. ana
almost no purely intellectual stimu-
lus."
! Mrs Morgan herself was a college
J professor before her marriage. She
| had become an expert in mathematics
at Smith College and at Radcliffe.
where she took her degree. and be-
cause there was little demand for
/ higher mathematical work in an ex-
! clusively woman's college, she went to
the University of Dakota. where she
! taught co-educational classes in the
most difficult sort of mathematics.
I Did you find any prejudice against
I you because you were a woman in
your classes among the men stu
dents?'' I asked
Not in the least" was Mrs, Morgan $
reply. In fact. though women chose
mathematics at the university in the
proportion OF perhaps four to fifty men,
my classes were frequently composed en-
tirely of men. the women choosing the
men instructors. and the men frequently
being able to make better progress under
! the guidance Of a woman instructor than
otherwise. At any rate, there was no sex
prejudice"
Were the women students who did
take Up the subject as competent as the
mem" l asked.
Rather more So Mrs Morgan ad-
Ir,aiff go
! perfect student II was sure to be a girl.
There is no reason to say that mathe-
| nnatics. because II calls for perhaps the
closest kind Of intellectual application,
is more suited to the masculine than the
feminine. The reason why there are
more men in mathsmatic classes il sim
ply because there are more ways for a
man to put mathematics to use civil en-
cheering and mechanical engineering be-
ing almost exclusively practiced by
men,
Mrs. Morgan belongs to what she adj
mits with laugh to be a 'high-brow''
family. She has NJ. A degree herself
and two Of her sisters are Phi DIS. one
Of them being Mrs. Ethel Puffer Howes.
and former college professor like her
self. who taught aesthetics and psychol-
Iogy n Wellesley College. Her book
The Psychology Of Beauty" is a stand
ard textbook. But Mrs Morgan is not
OF the blue-stockine type, at least what
we used to consider II to be. When she
talked to me yesterday in her office at
the headquarters OF the Congress sionaI
committee Of the National American
Woman's Suffrage Association in the
Munsey Building. she showed her inter-
est in dozen or so subjects which wom-
en- are talking about. She has held Of
fee In many Washington clubs and her
chief interest. perhaps Is in publicity
work
Surely her intellectual activity has in
no way diminished her interests. and she
mentions the fact that she was a athe-
mates professor in most casual sort
OF way.
Just at present Mrs. Morgan is busy
with her duties as the acting Chairman
Of the committee on local ARRANGEMENTS
for the forty-seventh annual convention
of the National American Wouien's Suf-
Trace Association. soon to meet in this
CITY. The second meeting OF this COM
nlittee is to be held next Friday at tia
New Oxford Hotel
The chairman Is Mrs Winston
Churchill. who viii, soon return to Wasa-
ington. Other members OF the commits
tee besides Mrs. Morgan are Airs. George
Alexander MosshaTt. who was before her
marriage secretlry of tie State railway
commission in Nebraska; Miss Ethel NJ
Smith. Mrs Helen II. Gardener. promi-
nent novelist and an essayist. whose uni
versity extension work along sociological
lines has attracted considerable atten-
ton: Miss Florence F.. Stiles. president of
John Oliver MoQue, nswspaper and