Show Campus Marriages to Increase Editors Hud Life magazine recently conducted a survey of the campus marriage Following are results of the With an ever-increasing number of married students attending American colleges and the pattern of campus marriage started by World War II veterans is now becoming a permanent feature of the collegiate LIFE Magazine reports in its current At when marriage was just beginning to flourish on the it was only the seniors who dared take the Now sophomores and even freshmen are falling in and the trend is toward more and more undergraduate College experts expect the proportion of married students to rise by 50 to 75 in the next 10 22 Colleges Surveyed A survey by LIFE of 22 U. S. colleges and universities shows that the East lags behind other regions in percentage of married Record is held by the University of Georgia where 19 of the undergraduates are As might be schools still trail the coeducational ones Probably the most startling aspect of the boom in campus marriage is the accepted presence of increasing numbers of undergraduate wives and mothers in the once maidenly atmospheres of such schools as with 22 married students this and which has Prosperity Main Factor Of all the factors responsible for the increase in campus LIFE the most important is America's general In the the one big thing that kept male students' minds off the topic of matrimony was the chilling doubt of how long it would especially in the depressed before they could possibly support a wife in the manner expected of college Today's who know the great Depression only by hearsay and have personally observed nothing but year after year of practically full are bound to take a rosy view of their economic the usual pattern of today's student marriages calls for both sets of parents to continue supporting the young Other factors contributing to the boom are the example of the the prospect of the and the early social development urged on young people in the general uncertainty of today's atomic world is perhaps an Parental Subsidization Dependence of parents is one of the real pitfalls of the subsidized Some parents use their financial support to keep control of the son or Often parental aid gives rise to the question of whether the young man or woman is primarily a son or wife or and in this new and difficult situation there are few Some of the more minor hazards peculiar to such marriages include the restriction of free time imposed by marriage and the tendency towards isolation from normal campus LIFE there still remains a strong parental prejudice against marriage during college On the other hand there is evidence that the attitude of parents has greatly changed within a and all in the direction of taking a more open-minded view of campus Good Influence A good many faculty people have become out-and-out partisans of such A dean at MIT recently married students are a good influence on the college both academically and They are a more serious group and have a deep feeling of And an administrator at Stanford university have known men who were just scraping by in their Then they got and we never had another worry with |