The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-05-08
DISAGREE AS TO
MALE SUPERIORITY
Dean Turner Says Men
More Intellectual Than
Women
BY MARGERY REX.

NEW lOkh, May CIV ON N
may cram their weak feminine minds
| full OF mere book knowledge, and
pass examinations with higher marks
than men. The poor things are really
very patient and industrious, and
/ thereby are able TO befuddle many
men in this old world.
But the girls can't fool Dean II.
Turner, of the Washington Square
branch of the New York University
/ He has exposed Woman's weak intel
lectual powers to the faculty of that
institution in a few well chosen
| phrases. His immediate provocation
/ for the expose and it is no secret.
may be traced to the alarming fact
/ hat stats 4 =. both In his own col
lcge and others, prove women pass
higher in examinations than men
students. The dean says:
After all men are more intellec-
/ tual than women, examination pa
lpers or no examination papers Wom-
en- have better memories and study
harder, that's all.
In tasks requiring patience and
industry women win out. But when
a man is both patient and Industrious
he beats a woman any day.
Take cooking, for instance. A
woman when she cooks uses the
same old stove in the same old way
as she has always done. A man gets
impatient and invents n stove that
will do the same work better in
half the time.
Womcn's Champion Replies.
But the women of New York Uni
versity are not without strong
champion in their own dean, DIR.
Aristine Z. Munn-Recht, graduate Of
Bryn Mawr and Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, doctor of medicine, bachelor
of arts, wife, mother and house
keeper.
"Men more intellectual than worn-
on? she smiled. Dean Turner said
so?
ct all depends on his definition Of
intellect. If one means tho camera
plate type OF memory. which merely
registers facts and puts them down
on an examination paper, that quail
ity may be in the possession of either
man or woman.
Perhaps it is more common to
woman, because through centuries
she has been obliged TO keep careful
track OF the pronouncements of her
lord and master.
"If intellect means ability TO judge.
reason and deduce from facts woman
is mans superior
Women have more initiative and
do not like to go through the same
routine day after day.
Women add intuition TO their in
telleCtual powers-and the combina-
tion assists deduction. Women there
l., .g,fA l,tt H..
men because II takes an agile mind
to cope with a crisis in affairs.
Women's Sanding In Glasses.
Women here usually stand in the
first third of the Class--in co-educa-
tional classes. That is, the majority
of the women do.
why is 1t that mon who have led
their classes are so often never heard
of after they graduated?
since when did literature. lam
guaGc and other similar studies re-
quire more concentration and mem
ory than science and mathematics?
"If women excel in the former II
is because those studies possess n hu-
man interest and offer n chance TO
cypress personality which is lacking
in the cut and dried sciences.
LAS far as cooking is concerned,
the pastry COOKS ana Negetable COOKS
in hotels are nearly always women.
The woman housekeepcr usually
runs the chef. There are many
women today operating hotels sue
cessfully.
Reason for Using Old Stoves.
Dean Turner says women use tho
same old stoves while men invent
new ones II women do thit It is be-
cause the man of the family often
hasn't enough intellect to get cash TO
buy n new one.
women have had so much i'm
portant work to do that they have
not taken time to work out improve
ments and to perfect labor-saving
devices. This is because women are
he self-sacrificing members Of the
race. and will work for the better
ment of every one else first