DEFENDS THE WOMAN COLLEGE GRADUATE Miss Laura Drake Gill Explodos Somo Fallacies by Reference to Statistics. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 5. "Thirty years ago the prediction was made that higher education was fostering a blow to the health of women," wom-en," Miss Laura Drake Gill, president of the Collogc for Women, Sowauee, Teuu., asserted in addressing tho eloventh annual religious oducation as-sociation as-sociation convention today, "but. figures fig-ures show that only a very small percentage per-centage havo impaired health. "Later the cry was that college women woro not marrying oarty onougk, ort if thoy married, thoy did not have children enough. Again figures show that, while collogc women marry a little lit-tle later in life, the3' finally marry in the samo proportion as their nearest female blood relatives who wero not college graduates, and that thoy have relatively larger families; a larger percentage per-centage aro boys and that their chil dren havo better health." "As to the economic statua of col-lego col-lego women," Miss Gill said, ''an inquiry in-quiry shows that they aro not reaping tno return for the capital invested in their training. Ono trouble is that the greater number of graduates havo gono to teaching. Tho nonteaching occupations occupa-tions give bettor salaries, more rapid advancement and greater opportunities." opportuni-ties." Miss Frances Cummiugs of tho intercollegiate inter-collegiate bureau of occupation in New York said that college graduates aro fnkiuff more interest in social servico and ill at during tho last two months 11 7o persons applied for work of this character.