The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-16
Written by IMAGERY REX for In.
 ternationaI News Service

1 New York, April 16.-Women 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 R. | Turner, of the Washington Square | branch of the New York University. | He has exposed wonan's weak intel lectual powers to the faculty of that institution in a few well chosen for the expose, and it is no secret, may be traced to the alarming fact that statistics, both in his own col lege and others, prove women pass higher in examinations than men stu dents. The dean says:
 After all, men are rSre intel1ec- tua1 than women, examination papers or no examination papers. Women 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 she has always done- A man gets impa- tient and invents a. stove that will do the same work better in half the time
 Who are the chefs at the great nOLeIS " omen! NO, men! And as for sewing. Who are the best known clothing designers and ladies tailors in Paris? Menn'
 WoInen's Champion Replies.
 But the women of New York Uni versity are not without a strong champion in their own dean, Dr. Ar istine P. Munn-Recht. graduate of Rryn Mawr and Johns Hopkins Uni of arts, wife. mother and house. keeper.
 "Men more intellectual than wo- men?" she smiled. Dean Turner said
 ''It all depends on the definition of intellect. If one means the camera plate type of memory, which merely registers facts and puts them down on examination paper, that quality 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 announcements of her lord and master.
 'tIf intellect means ability to judge, reason and deduce from facts woman is mans superior.
 'fWomen 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- ton assists deduction Women there by rise to emergencies better than men, because it takes an agile mind to cope with a crisis in affairs
 'HMen may fill one calling, such that of engineer or carpenter, for in stance Woman cooks, sews nurses. acts as housemaids and often has a job outside her home well.
 Matilda, wife of William the Con queror. wove the beautiful Bayeux tapestries. From that day to this all embroidery and lace stitches. which show exceedingly ferile minds, have been conceived by women.
 Women's Standing 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.
 'fWhy is it that men who have led their classes are so often never heard of after they graduated 7?
 Since when did literature, Ian guage and other similar studies re-