Show The College Woman In an article on the Evolution of IMP College Woman VJV8 Caroline Hasard President I 01 Wellesley college says < In Success In colonial days in America the problem ot womans career was sim pler Each maiden became the mis treys of a household at a suitable age It was a discredit to a man not to bo married in somo New England towns I I bachelors to pay special taxes and a widower made haste to choose a sec and wife A man always needed a woman to preside in his house to care for his temporal wants to add dignity to his condition The time was ono of theocratic government and the wife was eS2enliai roman fponomlcal point of view to the lords of creation Today the feminine halt of mankind Is receiving Hs full haLe of Attention for IL must always be numbered that nen and women arc not different orders of beings They find tholr Lull est and completest development to gather Male and female created ho I them There Is the eternal difference and the eternal similarity Normal life demands the two principles If Goethe I gives us studies of the eternal feminine Browning must complete with mascii line vigor or wo get sentimentality or I brutality as a result It Is the union oC strength In weakness tlmt marks the complex and varied character which Is the product of our end oC tho cen tury For I take It the eternal feminine femi-nine Is simply this the power of lovo which as Its throne In a good womans heart Cull It altruism If you like call It the mother soul found a phUosophv or a system of speculation upon It It I Is simply that capacity of love and devotion de-votion which Mary of Bethany showed when she sat at Te usg foci I Granted then that this Is at the root lJof womans liCe that every woman child who comes Inio the world has this S I great gift and rospoiuslblllty that this Is I her contribution to human life with what reverence with what awe should we approach her to make or to mar Sentimentality and mannishness like Scylla and Char bdI9 stand on either Bide Tho Intellect must be tralnod to Its fullest capacity or there will he an uneven balance Ideal Justice Is not a common virtue and the powers of the rnlnd must be trained to regulate the emotions Heart and head In happy union must rule the conduce And so 1 we believe In what Is called higher education edu-cation There have always been women wo-men from tho days of the Queen of Sheba who sought out wisdom who < j made great sacrifices and endured I arduous toll to come to a fountainhead fountain-head of knowledge This nineteenth century these last fifty years have brought to women to large numbers of women opportunities before accessible accessi-ble only to the gifted few Now these streams flow freely and women come In throngs But does the draught quicken them to new life Culture Is moro than the acquisition of knowledge knowl-edge To bear fruit learning must pass into life It Is the touch of man upon nature that makes art The highest art is going back to nature and hayIng hay-ing received It having nourished upon It stamped with mans Impress so tho finest fruit of learning must be personality per-sonality The soul Is the supreme power always To enlarge its kingdom to bring warring elements under Us controlthis is the supreme task oJ education |