The New York herald., 1922-08-06
Children Have Grown Up
''and Now She Has Leis-
ure to Study.
THREE SONS TEACHERS
She Was Graduated in 1859
From Greensboro College
for Women.

boro, n. c., has entered the summer
session of Columbia University as a
student College graduate and Vassar
student more than half century ago.
and mother of six. Mrs. Crawford is
studying in order that she may keep
mentally alert and up to date, which,
she says, is the real secret of youth.
She is Columbia's oldest student.
There is no need to grow old, men,
tally at least" said Mrs. Crawford, who
is living at 420 West 10th street dur
ing her stay mere. "Stagnation and
intolerance are ones greatest foes in
keeping young. These changing times
demand new viewpoints, and the
woman of to-day must keep herself
we'll informed, as part of her duty as a
citizen"
Mrs. Crawford sees nothing unusual
in going to school, at her age. ex-
planning that she lost her job when
her children grew up and established
themselves, and in her long, busy life
she has never had as much leisure
as she would like for reading and
study. Three of her five sons are
teachers, another is merchant in
WinstonS Salem, n. c., and the fifth
is connected with the. Reynolds To-
bacco Company in that city.
Grandson Just Graduated.
A grandson. r. B. Crawford, was
graduated from the University of
North Carolina this June. Her son
l.. w. Crawford is assistant director
of the summer session at Columbia,
Richard NJ. is teaching at William
and Mary College in Virginia and f.
M. Crawford is an instructor in tho
high school tsGirard, Ohio y, 49,.
Mrs. Crawford was a teacher her.
self for two years after graduation
from the Greensboro College for
Women in 1869. and year of study
at Vassar, then just four years old.
Marriage to Methodist clergyman in
terrupted her work and brought with
It home duties and parish work. but
she was always an ardent reader, and
kept herself young, she believes. by
striving always to be intellectually
awake, keeping herself in constant as
ISOLATION with young people and safe
guarding her health with judicious
exercise and few simple rules of
hygiene.
"There Is no end to growth" she
- I,~tl
study hero she will use. she explained.
as basis for her reading during the
winter months at home. Philosophy
and literature interest her most. Com-
parative literature and Prof. Mon
tague's course In radical, conserva-
tive and reactionary tendencies in
present day morals arc the subjects
she Is taking up here.
Doesn't Condemn Flaprcrs.
Asked her opinion Of the modern
"flarper." she replied that tho term
was used so indiscriminately that she
was not sure of It's meaning. but that
she did not condemn the young girls
OF to-day for reaching out toward
freer, broader lives. Girls OF to-day
do not study so hard as they used, she
said. but have a broader and more In
teuigent outlook than the schoolgirls
OF her generation. But no one has any
excuse for narrowness and stagration
to-day. she declared. because knowl-
edge has been made 50 accessible in
our schools. libraries and the wealth
or periodicals in this country.
This country is gradually making
progress toward the fulhllment of its
democratic ideals. Mrs. Crawford be-
lieves. Social and economic ideas un-
dreamed Of by the rank and file of men
and women In her day are becoming
commonplaces now. she said. She be-
lieves that new social and industrial
order is bound 10 come out OF tho
struggle between capital and labor,
but how soon II will come or what
form 1t viii take she does not venture
TO prophesy.
Her physical youthfulness Mrs.
Crawford attributes TO a life full OF
activity. plenty OF outdoor exercise and
obedience TO the fundamental laws of
hygiene. In Greensboro she lives with
her daughter, whose two little girls,
Z and 5, are Keeping up with grand
mother" by good records in school.
The elder. who will not be Q until De-
cember, enters the fifth grade this fall
Tho Society of Industrial Engineers
will hold three day national conven-
tion In New York beginning October rs,
the Amsrican Engineering Council ans
nouneed yesterday. Prof, Joseph w,
Roe. president Of the society and head
Of the department OF industrial engineer
Ing al New York University. win pre-
side
Economies OF Industry" will be the
general topic. Barton Il, Bean OF San
Francisco. Harrington Emerson of New
York and w. o. Sheehan of Detroit have
saen elected directors Of the society TO
serve Ave years.