Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-13
PAY. MORE HEED
TO CAREERS OF
COLLEGE WOMEN
Post War Conditions Open
Hundreds Of New voca-
tions for University
Trained Girls.

What does the University OF Ne
braska do for its women students
to prepare them for the battle OF
life? This is a question which
comes repeatedly to the offices of
professors and executives, and never
more frequently than in these post
war days.
Whereas 25 years ago practically
only two careers were open to the
woman graduate of the middle west
ern university--the school and the
home-now 100 or so careers lie
spread out before the capable young
woman with the cap and gown and
the beginning of the alphabet after
her name.
The last quarter of century has
also dispeled the antique idea that
somehow woman was different from
man and once follower of a speci-
fled trade she must always be such.
War has materially affected the
lives of countless women here and
overseas. Many must now be self
supporting, and further than this,
care often for others than them
selves
Nebraska Women Active.
Many University of Nebraska
women participated in lines of war
activity during the last few years.
Profs. Alice Howell and Blanche
Grant went abroad and did notable
work in army service. DR.. Elda
Walker has carried on excellent
scientific field work in the state to
assist in enlarging crop resources.
DIR. Lcva Walker has for some time
been busy with investigation OF fruit
crop pests. DIR. H. P. Williams,
even before the war, was dipping
deeply into social service questions
and seeking to find new ways Of
helping the doWncast.
1t is quietly known on the campus
that the dean of women, Amanda
Heppner, is becoming more and
more interested in vocational train
ing fer women and the means for
helping girls decide what they wish
TO do i'll life. The staff of women
in training for physical culture, at
present headed by Mrs. R. G. Clapp,
has already sent many girls into
the world as physical directors in
schools or other organizations.
Engineering Attracts Some.
Miss Elsie Day, in the college of
pharmacy, has been valuable
helper to many young women. and
men also, who looked to medicine,
pharmacy or nursing as their life
work. Even the engineers college,
which is primarily mans institu-
tion, and must so remain, is catch
ing the eyes of serious-minded
girls. and there is every likelihood
that some day regular courses must
be offered in this college to train
women for lines like architecture
and designing. Indeed, there were
requests for such things during the
present semester registration.
Gifted women find opportunities
in the, lines classed as "fne arts"
Here, under the guidance of such
talented women as Mrs. Henrietta
Brock and Miss Louise Munday.
they may learn things both useful
and artistic, as, for example, pot
terry making, by which independence
and mutual helpfulness may be ac-
quired, or they can be started on
the career of decorators, for (which
there is an increasing demand. In
the same school another professor
is preparing women for public and
private readers and the more ardu
Gus duties of life on the dramatic
stage.
Economics and Business.
It is hardly necessary to mention
the department of home economics
at the state farm, where women are
both prepared to be home builders
and instructors for other home max
ers. Nor need the college of busi-
ness administration be mentioned,
where women are trained in the fine
theories of business, in which they
may excel the men, and where, too,
they may now obtain the practical
processes of every day business in
economics, banking, shorthand and
typewriting.
OF course, for many years 1t has
been possible for the musically-in-
WOludu W dItSllb thS oiiiNSi
sity and get credit for much work
done under the very best accred-
tied teachers and for the theories of
music and art carried under the best
approved professors on the regular
university faculty.
AS assistants in many offices and
laboratories young women in train
ing are given splendid opportunity
to ascertain just what their qualifi
cations are for the world of affairs.
There are also departments on the
campus where no women are to be
found on the faculty, but courses are
offered in lines where young women
may find employment later. Such
is journalism, line in which many
Nebraska girls are becoming amaz
insly interested.
The law college, which is always
recognized as largely a masculine
college, has already graduated
number of women and many other
women are considering its possibili-
ties to help them prepare for useful
lives