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Show I , College Girls and Marriage. (The question of what becomes of the college girl is one of very considerable importance, and with a view to throwing throw-ing some light on it an examination has i been made of the history of Vassar graduates. The result is interesting if not decisive. deci-sive. Of the first 24 graduating classes at Vassar, embracing SC7 members, 313 were reported as married, 305 as teach-' teach-' crs, 23 as physicians, 39 as literary ! workers and the rest as artists, book- keepers and so forth five of them being "farmers," and, let us hope, highly scientific ones. The main point is whether or not the ' college girl is less available for matri mony on account of her distinguished nttainments. The statistics seem to indicate in-dicate that she is. Only 30 per cent of marriages reported among graduates of Vassar is not a record of which that institution in-stitution has reason to be proud. It is r 1 said by experts, however, that these fig- |