| Show Brains And Charm The Magic Touch Virginia dean of gave University women a succinct and true definition of their place in an academic society when she spoke Tuesday at a lyceum opening AWS-sponsored Dean Frobes defined the the phrase AWS has selected as a theme for the A woman's she is a combination of two things her femininity and the full use of her intellectual abilities and Too many whether consciously or unconsciously still consider these two qualities There is still an underlying feeling among college women that they must not show their intellectual abilities and interests too plainly for fear of being thought un-feminine and unfaithful to their traditional Dean Frobes stated that because women have proved themselves to be capable and interested they are both appreciated and This is and it is of being as academic competitors that college women are Because of this a great number of them tend to concentrate their efforts in fields where in general they are not competing with There are undoubtedly other reasons why women congregate so heavily in a few but it is very possible that one of the primary ones is the fact that these fields are considered feminine and acceptable for young ladies who go to To often considerations like these take precedence over genuine interest in the fields and young women do not find the academic stimulation which it is so important for a college student to The thing that both men and women need to realize is that femininity and scholastic no matter in what are not mutually A woman student should be viewed neither as only a social object whose chief purpose on the campus is to be nor as a competitor who is trying to take on masculine and she should not feel that she must make of herself one or the she should be considered and should consider herself a person in her own a person who values her femininity and has no intention of abandoning but who is not afraid to discover her own declare and pursue them with the best efforts of the intellectual capacity she |
