Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-28
SCORNED CUPID SOBS;
MAIDS OF BRYN MAWR
AT MINERVA'S SHRINE
While Wellesley Lasses Re-
fute Race Suicide Charge
With B e tro t h a | An
nouncements, Sc Tor s
Claim Hearts Their Own
Eighty-five Girls to Receive Di-
plomas and None an Engage
ment Ring, Says President
Thomas-Too Busy With
Studies to Think of Boys.

Elehty-hve girls, young and pretty, and
nnt one engaged to be married.
That is the remarkable record of this
vear's graduating class OF Bryn Mawr
College. Furthermore, the learned seniors
armly assert that they don't even enter
lain the slightest intentions of taking
the matrimonial step. So far, according
40 the seniors and Miss M. Carey Thomas,
presdent of the college, the entire grad
uating class has been untouched by
Cupid's darts.
Last year there was a different story.
eeveral of the seniors announced their
engagements before Commencement Day.
and one left the year unfinished to be-
nome a wife. She was Dorothy Turner,
of Merton. Another senior fell In love
with Professor Dewey, of the sociology
chair, and they we're married Immediately
after the graduation exercises. During
tho year many other engagements were
announced. but all remained to finish
their terms.
DIFFERENT AT WELLESLEY.
Many engagements were announced this
year among the underclassmen, but the
seniors have remained immune. One
senior said today on the campus that
they were too busy with their studies
to think of matrimony After a recent
statement by two Western college profess
sors that womens colleges are a menace
to the American race because they are
inducve of race suicide, IL of the We'll
lesley seniors came out with engagement
announcements and said they expected to
be married as soon as they should finish
college. The girls said they were proud
Of II, and gave the names of their
finances. One OF them was Miss Marie
Neiffer. of Wyncote. She announced her
engagement to Chauncey Robinson, son
Of DR.. and Mrs. oliver Robinson, OF
Georgetown, Del.
But, contrary to the action taken by
the Wellesley girls and girls of colleges
In the West the Bryn Mawr graduates
will march out this June S5 strong and
not one intending to marry. This prob
ably is the first class that has so stead
fastly clung to what they term "sIngle
blessedness."
RACE SUICIDE CHARGE.
It was only last Tuesday that Prof
Roswell Johnson and Bertha j. Stutz-
man. Of the University of Pittsburgh, as
serted that the women's colleges are a
DeCdubS OL ENCOURAGEMENT
s of race suicide. 1t was in answer to
these that the Wellesley girls made their
announcement. The professors charged
that the colleges are to blame for the
failure to give girls opportunity to meet
young men and for failure to make them
desirable as competent wives and
mothers. They showed statistically that
the marriage rate of "co-eds" Is con-
siderably higher, and they remarked that
most women's colleges forbid the students
to receive callers of the opposite sex,
even on Sunday, their one free day.
Prof Robert J. Sprague. of the So
.ology chair in the Massachusetts, Agri-
cultural College, Amherst. also said that
women's colleges were Fastening the end
OF the American race. He offered stat
istics showing. he said, that the average
graduate of woman's college does not
prefer marriage, let alone children. He
cited Bryn Mawr, among others, as being
foremost In the list of colleges that had
produced spinsters instead of wives He
said that only one-third of the Bryn
Mawr graduates have married, that chill
dren have averaged only one to every
three marriages
SOUND DOOM OF RACE.
Doctor Sprague also said that II more
college. graduates do not marry in the
future and II more children are not born
the present old American stock will be-
come extinct and will be replaced by that
OF immigrants. Immigrants are fast out
numbering the American population, he
said. and IL the present low birth rate
Is continued 1t will be only a matter OF
time before the old aristocracy will be
gone.
The Bryn Mawr seniors, however, have
Kept their minds on their books and not
on young men. That they may marry
later they admitted, although they said
the chances are very slight
This Monday the senior class banquet
VIII be held. 1t Is the custom for the
seniors officially to announce any en-
gasements at this affair. The girl Is then
eompllmented and wished every happiness
py her classmates. But this year there
VIII be no announcement. Although the
senior banquet is the occasion of the first
formal announcement of any engagement,
tne girls always know in advance who
VIII confess, and this year the seniors
sIoutly maintain that there will be no
announcements. In this they are sup
ported by President Thomas. She said
rhere are no girls in the senior class
engaged. II there are any rumors to that
erect l wish to deny them"