The Washington herald., 1920-04-18
Girls Degrees
ER.A.EF.R.G.S

0e AAfy EWert lecturer On
ethneloEy In the School Of AnthropoIory in
ozferd. and who spent two yesrs On q,
srpioring expedition snons the sborirnsI
tribes OF siberia. to look a. II sbs had just
stepped out Of cosmopolitan drsvinr room,
but that 10 the feat Of Miss CssplIcks. She
has recently arrived In this country to lee
ture before universities and scientise bodies
on Siberia and Turks In central Europe and
other queer peoples We have never heard Of.
Miss CEaplicka 10 q Pole By birth and
preference, for she adores her newborn
country. and has Just left thefe. Last sum.
ner, however, she was lecturinF at Oxford
University. In fact, q graduate and fellow
Of that university, she was the first woman
to lecture there before both sexes, although
she now has two feminine colleagues.
Before that, this brilliant young Polish
woman did some valuable research work for
the League Of Nations Union, the unofbciaI
promoter Of League Of Nations education
in England. Before that she was busy
writing books and articles about the tv,
years she spent exploring in Siberia and
some Of the other queer things she has dis
covered about peoples and things. Among
her books are Aboriginal Siberia" MY
Siberian Year" The Turks Of Central
Asia" The Evolution Of Cossack Com
uunities," Central Asian Societies." and
her articles deal with the ostysks. tn.
samoyeds, the Yskuts and other strange
peoples Of unknown Asia.
1t was in 1914 that she was sent out from
Oxford as the first woman ever to lead a
scientific expedition. With two other
women and Mr.. Hall, of the University
Museum Of Philsdelphia. shs went to
Siberia to collect chronological data. She
travelled as far north as the Kara sea.
which is a. Ear north as the mainland e1-
tends. Her principal trip was along the
Yenisei river, which flows into the Kara
sea. The expedition started just before the
war, and did not come back for nearly two
years.
In writing about her own country Miss
Czsplicks says:
Poland is starving, but she is doing il
Gayiy. Warsaw is today the Hveliest city in
the world and growing enormously. Its
unbeard-of increase in population has re-
suited in q housing situation such as / am
sure you have never had to cope with in
your country. No family is permitted more
than three rooms and this law is rigidIy
enforced.
But after all, what's q little thing like
housing" she asks. "a mere matter Of
point Of view. For instance, some Of the
sborigines Of the Arctic SHOWS simply could
not understand how people in Europe and
America could live in storied houses, that
is, on top Of one another. U>~Ss not too
dificult to make them visualize an airplane,
that 10, men fying about in machines Of
their own making. But to build a chum
"a tent on top Of a chum was to them Sc
silly as TO be unbelievable. 1t was really
quite hopeless to try to describe to them
the civilized dwellings of Europeans.
In many matters, the young Polish schonr
reports q remarkable progress in her new
country, especially considering the fact Of
One thing has already been done especially
well In this brief era Of freedom, she AYERS.
and it is due largely to the wise policy Of
General Pilsudski, the president Of tho
Polish state. This Is the work Of the de-
partment Of education.
OF course Miss Czaplicks 10 particularly
interested In this manifestation Of her coun-
try's progress. The new republic has made
four schools bloom where one existed before
the war. There are now six universities in
Poland, two post -bellum ones and four
rsopened. She herself was present st the
reopening last October Of the 500- -yesr-old
University Of wilma, closed during the last
100 years By the Russians.
There are now 5000 students IN the
University Of Warsaw, about 25 Per cent Of
whom are women, chiefly studying law and
medicine. There IL no sex inequality left
In Polish institutions Of learning except In
the teaching star, where, there are hardly
any women at present. Madame Curie, Of
Paris, who 10 q Pole, has agreed to no 70
Warsaw for one term each year.
Nearly q fourth Of the matriculstion NJ
Warsaw is from neighboring Slavic states,
since Poland is, for the moment, their only
possible educational center.
The educational revival is only one Of
many ways IN which resurrected Poland 4,
OF its grave clothes. A thrilling
took place, also in wilma, when
the old cathedral, closed for q century upder
the Russia regime, was reopened with choir,
Of Polish singers.
Marya Czaplicks, who already has IT, r.
A. !. and +. r. G. 9. AFTER her name. h,,
done the work for an u. A. ut Oxford. but
can't add those letters 10 her inpo.in,
array until eleven years have passed sipcs
her matriculation at the university. And
she Is yet too young, though she has had