Show THE INFLUENCE OF COLLEGE WOMEN ITHE In the exchange column of the Chronicle issued issued is is- sued ed last week appeared the following statement from rom the pen of Professor Leslie J. J Tompkins of If New ew York University president of the N New w York Association of College Graduates 1 I. I The college woman has not made good There are re I think about or college women P in n the United States Three-fourths Three of these are a e so nice that they are married already and the remainder are freaks The married women dont don't take S so mU much h interest in outside affairs a and d freaks cannot accomplish anything anyway Poor or college women What's the use For if What Professor Tompkins assumes is true the thew college COlleg e w woman man y who does not marry is IS a freak who cannot cannot accomplish accomplish anything and the college woman woman woman wo wo- man who Iwho does marry does not accomplish anything anything any any- thing Happily in Dr Elliot we have an authority whom we would rather accept For he maintains maintains maintains main main- that college women should marry since her influence for good to posterity will have a wider scope And Professor Tompkins assumes also that married college women could have in in- fluence Of course the married college woman will influence influence influence in in- fluence her husband husband husband-a a college man man to to vote at presidential elections And maybe at municipal ones too If it properly influenced he may become become become be be- come a city father and deprive some well meaning saloonkeeper of the job Then the college college college col col- lege womans woman's son will occasionally be influenced to serve upon a a jury and maybe run fo for the state legislature and not care if he is snowed under And the unmarried freak Occasionally she influences her father to take arms against child labor for the freaks have become expert social social social so so- cial settlement workers as the bureaus of charity charity charity char char- ity in our large cities attest In view of this much influence college women refuse to be discouraged discouraged discouraged dis dis- by Professor Tompkins' Tompkins pessimism o |