Show I TAFT SPEAKS ON College One Unfits Neither MaiNor Mai Man ManNor MaiNor Nor Woman for Business FOR HIGHER ONE FOR WOMEN Dissents From Froni View Is Inconsistent ent With Wih Being Best Wives And Mothers Nut t i That One Wil Iii lio Should I a Con Coti u IIII 11 I lug Juno JUlO I TaCt In his address s to 10 tho the graduates ol of ci I Hryn Mawr lull college collo today on oa 01 woman college aton spoke pokE In part rl a aR at follows fol w Your our president has A k me rae at II hi commencement comlen tn to tiny say In In it respect nI I to 10 the II ol oC women It Ji I Is II of or course a It theme themI mAci relevant antI germane to the Ihl but bul It Is IA l one of oC which I hesitate to IC speak In the tue presence of those Io e who hv han made It I their life study Iud whose opinions In regard to the matter nrc ol ot olHO oto niso HO so o much touch more real weight than my myown myown myOwn own The rhe ite president Ire reviewed the advances matte made In educational advantages for both hoth sexes since 1800 hOd Continuing the president said aid naldI saidI aidI I dissent front from frol the th view Hint an nut academic education unfits unfit a man or woman for or business It 1 mar ma ho bu 1 that the tastes that lead one to 10 an academic education are not nOI those tho o which Insure business success but thuat the mental discipline the power of or reasoning re the tho cultivation anti antl comparison of oC Ideas art are arl not nol of assistance in tn business trans transactions Irna actions 11 lons in lii which the Itt highest st of mind are ore acutely In III action acton can cen hardly be true Irue WOMEN WOI AND nut Hut It Is it said that women are arc not nil ni going Into Inlo tho the professions anti and so po that the th education c necessary ar as a a basis bals for a professional career Is nol nat needed by hy tho those o who believe In a competency or look took forward to 10 marriage and end moth motherhood as the chief ends of at woman It U in n the tle higher education of oC woolen women rather thorn them to tn discharge the thc duties dutes of a a wife ICI and atul mother that thaI In some lomo way a or other It robs rb them of n a charm and gives gl os thorn them nn rio Intellectual tull Independence that Is 18 In Inconsistent 11 Inconsistent consistent with their being tho the best wives 18 and ond mothers I utterly latterly dissent from this view Ie The companionship of married life le Is I l the chief charm and reason for Us Its Is being so to tO far as at ni It relates to the two persons persona concerned The enjoyment of the home with children and the train trainIng Ing mug of or them are of or course among tin the most Important duties and pleasures of married life Ifo und It I certainly dora does dO not detract from frol the power of woman Ioan to tomake tomako make mako a good companion or tn to teach and lend 1111 tier her children up to tn high Ideals h that she Aho sh should hould have the thc advantage of oC the higher education It I Is Ip not nol essential that tull a woman who knows much must conform to the unattractive manner lanner stud mid ways of ot the tho tie conventional blue hile stocking Unit that she hould make the thc extent of oC her knowl 18 a 1 source of oC discomfort to 10 th wih with whom she ache he associates a or that Hint she he should lose lo e her liar Interest In the senti sentiment ment anti and emotions of life or fall fail tal to tl have Imn an itO In appreciation of oC beauty anti romance oilia lice I 1 am ant Ri quits quite ready read to concede that marriage and motherhood are Iro a normal status for woman and 1111 other things thing b bIngs hi Ings nat equal she Ahe Is II happier In that con eon condition litton than In any In other littler Hut till thais Is Ilton far mr from saying that a I womans life is isa tI tIn IsI has hns hn not married a n I failure because be she Iho and that thaI her life Ifo may ma not be bl a B failure boon u HO ho sIte has hi married Th The horn the fatally family are nr the nucleus of oC the tho th tightest highest but hut If IC nl uie such tuch luch MH at H to force forI women to t accept whom they do ro not respect cod love loe and amI whom who 1 they lice would not marry narry to 10 escape n R life Irl nf of poe pov po erl tim Iho home antI the th family are Arl r net hot lt to tn he be n a 1 model or to tn furnish nn alt ni lent Ideal Ieli GIVES WOMAN VOMit WOM N One Ono of o the tIm great advantage of thin tho uglier higher education for woman In my toy m judgment In it I In the Independence It t gives her In the choice of If the tho kind kod kindt I of t if f IK life which she clue hl IH is to 10 lead leadIn Ild In this the profession lon of ot teaching the Ihl women coinon already have hlo thin tho advantage of et numbers It I peer aver the men In point pint It Il tuft that they Ih the do not receive recelo the tp same prime as men I dont know aton how tow this Ihl can be remedied I presume Irl lm that thaI thin the salaries received urn nr affected R tet that which controls control law by t cY y tInt the same Mme ns as n prices In let other markets to tn wit The Theace h law ace of oC supply anti and demand damand n as hero are more than malt nab male t and ns as n the th common opinIon Ion on Is I In many Instances that there might to be bc some Rome men finn teachers the themen hue receive higher r salaries men Wo Wa 0 cannot be he blind to the tho general movement nt In favor of oC opening morn more mornand and ind nd more occupations not dependent physical strength to 10 the f female m le sex sexI x xI on n in I dont think wo 0 cnn nn estimate the th normous that Ihal the thc present area ration ho hM hati enjoyed and rind that the tho fu tire Inre generations nrc nr tn 1 n by hr b In the tho lie sound round anti an edu ration of the Ihl mothers of oC I dont think we Wf ran cnn nn estimate thin the th ed happiness that men anti women have experienced who a si hut hus hu lands and wives 11 have enjoyed tin the tl hIgh hIgher balds e of oC companionship that I Is er r wn ne by hr h the Intellectual sympathy Ind nut ind association of nf 0 ideas Idena In between two tWI educated people Tim The higher education of oC unman hould b b be sought nought IOU Ih I wholly without re regard gard ard to n a professional or nr matrimonial future The rho Th mental discipline ln that It the th mental pleasures that Ilat It I lorI nukes possible the enjoyment of read reail Ial In ng rig rind and study that It Invites I I e are arf nough In and Ind nf of Ir th themselves to bo hue for Cor the effort In souring I I As A life wears nn on and the tie active nehe rears ear away own with wih youth mud 11 toung and young un manhood ills Ila ipp rand I nd th the time of oC the quiet ulel leisure Itself In ones onen Ufe lf the purely joys Jo become h better Ier nuI If It I trained for In on inn flat has hl n a mind ape ure u o Intellectual Intel I problems problem anti and nd In sating fading the philosophy of oC history In Inthe the he lIe study of or the th pursuit of oC nt nIt her life is tf richer her means if ef tC self el nt largely Increased d and Id the possibility p of or 11 ii I serene old age made much greater WOMANS WO mR GJ H Before I close c I wish hh to call ol allen atten attention aten co I think tion to 10 ont one m advantage that bitt t there tOI Is II In II tilt the In Independent womans college It may b be that my m view viva of oC this Is Inspire I by b that Benl of or In Infallibility infallibility fallibility which Dr Ir Ir David Jor Jordan dan dam ascrIbes ascribe ta us L a U r result of the tho train training ing log at al Harvard or Saie lle but hut whatever Its i caUM I 1 cannot help giving OX I slon ston le to It It I seems m to a me roe m that there muni mut be bit n a claw i In the benefits derived front from the I thu ho associations of ot Ir life In liOn Hryn Ma r und anti an those that tho 1 which every oel graduate of a I colo college o and university like Yale Vale values on evin v n more mot highly than Ihn Iko the tho mental and on the he tic does d learning I which lie ho acquires from rota hit his college course colell The Thu Th curp friendships that are arc ar formed In tn college by an In association of or four years at ft a time of DC life when out natures are lt malleable when hon our characters are ar be hit being b bInl hitIng c old not ing formed when we art are enough to have ha humid had our selfishness In when we wo respond more quick quickly ly to the thc emotions emotion when hen our Ideals of at friendship t hll and our friendships are nio moro more nearly the th same name are nr moro morn endearing that friendships formed thereafter They ey are ar friend friendships ships that bear the tooth of oC time and the tile rust rRt of nf absence ah They are ar friendships that can cal 1 be A taken up upon u on onn n a moment After an Interval of oC 20 O and seem as tic fro fresh h und lund Ind fragrant as a the lie I when hon It list budded lower glower of the tie friendship I ONn OI O I D NOm There Thero In ha II one ono danger of or n ii college ed Id and tour four ye years rH life under Ilder eel col collego l lleR loge lego influences tP that It reli wise wi to against It Is I tie the th danger of oC I discontent with wILh th the surroundings of tho the home hom to which a it I college girl p es hack utter after graduation und the yielding to In the th feeling tint that tier her own on town or city cl does do not offer to tl her the tho Ihl opportunities which she he Is I entitled to In itt the inn Ih use u of et the education which hl h she he has hR acquired It gives her hr after she Khe h I is settled at nt athon home hon I again a n nit nil ni spirit a 1 longing lon for something slid nh h does dOR not net have haI a spirit of criticism toward everything which her and nn a 1 consequent Inability to 10 contribute to 10 the tho happiness of oC tho thouc with lh whom hor she pho lives or comet come In tn contact This Is ha I not nt thin tho right result of nf the Iho higher I ton tonA ion ionA A young lady Indy with a I higher education tion ha hR hat much to learn after grad graduation ton In tn the thc homely details and anil the drudgeries of nC ordinary life le and the tho sooner she Ihl learns IIAma It the happier the ihie earlier the she ho cnn can adapt to Its I high highest hl h hII est II st use tho the knowledge anti and the mental training acquired In college cole e |