The evening world., 1920-10-22

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n tho Department or Psychology al me
University Of California.
'Sometimes," says Prof Arthur
Gates Of the Department. Of Psychol-.
ogy az Teachers College.
These queries followed the publi-
cation OF an editorial In tho Daily
Californian charging that pretty
girls with occasional resort 10 fem-
shine wiles can "vamp" their way. via
the professors heart % the head Of
tho class and high marks
~The editorial is psychologioaIiy
euund." declared Prof. Brown. IN n
quite natural for an instructor 70 be
Influenced favorably by a pleaanE
appearance and personality"
'rSomttlmos "a pretty girl 80 Inn
presses a professor that he actually
thinks she Is clever" admitted Prof.
Gates. but OF courHc u all d0pehds
upon the girl and upon the profoa-
sor."
Tn other words Il would have 20
be an awfully pretty girl and an
awfully gofted-heartod profossorF
laughed.
',Not necessarily a soft-heartcd BRO
fcssor." corrected Prof. Gates. "iust
susceptible one. In fact | might
even 80 "a step further and say a very
human professor. There IS no doubt
that the girl. or man for that mattd4.
with a pleasing personality stands
very good chance 10 succeed iu life.
Ths was even true IN tho war. A
chap with a bright, happy expression.
a straight carriage and a military
walk was much more apt 10 be pro
NOTED than a fellow with a bull
oountenancc. a lazy walk and hehvy
personahty. although he may have
had a much larger bump OF gray
matter
1T IA commonly understood that
the business man IN selecting a ste
nographer IL tempted TO pick tho prol-
test one regardless OF her ability 60
spoil or punctunte. Therefore. ISN'T Il
natural TO suppose that Professor
would be tempted to mark tho young
lady who has the brightest eyes and
most pleasing personality high in her
grades7
"Of course / don't mean that all
professors do that" laughed Fro
fessor Oates. who has forty or fifty
girls before him during every one OF
his lectures. There Is a certain type
OF professor who Is hard and calloused
ana beauty Is as beauty does With
him. But there ia another type OF
professor who sees what Professor
Thorndyke, also OF Teachers College.
has frequently termed halo about
certain young women. This halo or
pleading personality does Influence
some professors. and while a girl could
not actually get through oolleso on
beauty there Is no doubt that beauty
plus brains gets ahead twice as Wen
az lust plain unadorned brains.
Prot. Gates. although yona ID
mits he has recently become "a bene-
dict. but says he can well remember
how he felt during his bachelor dayEs
since they are not very far or.
EVERY young woman who rs FradJh-
nted from college must do a certain
amount of work" no declared, but
II Is true that favorable appearance
goes long way with the professors.
even II they have false teeth ana are
bald"
And n isn't always beauty which
wins the professors heart and Incl
: dentally his high marks" l ventured.
"a very clever young lady recently
boasted that sho did not consider her
self among the beautiful. but she
'vnmped her professors by raving
over what they had done for her IA
their wonderful C0urse
Your course Is the most wonder
ful course i have ever taken. IL has
opened a new world for me- she
would rave, and so she was placed a..
the top Of hor class and considered
by an tho made members OF the
faculty very unusual young
woman
yes 1 have met that typo N 'vamp
too" confessed Professor Gates.- cor
course most professors are human,
decidedly 80, and SOMETIMES a
pretty or clever girl discovers this"