This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...influence and is doing marvels for our girls. But this is where I believe the college may overdo, as it is possible for everything ever heard of to be overdone: By keeping our girls so absorbed, so overwhelmed with duties, however varied, and extending the course through P. G. after P. G., and degree after degree, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...influence and is doing marvels for our girls. But this is where I believe the college may overdo, as it is possible for everything ever heard of to be overdone: By keeping our girls so absorbed, so overwhelmed with duties, however varied, and extending the course through P. G. after P. G., and degree after degree, until the girl's entire youth is gone, and when at length she has time to think about other matters, and concede that, after all, a husband, home, and children do hold a place in the world's economy, and might be rather satisfying, she has reached an age when romance is viewed from a most superior standpoint, --handled with a pull here and twitch there to make sure that it is " all wool and will wash!" Then, if some day she wake up and find that her children have been born with spectacles upon their wee noses, and should hear infant lips proclaim: "The idealistic theory does not apply to the thinking ego, but to the world of external phenomena. The world exists in our conception of it," she need not be surprised. Some one once said that " money is the root of all evil." I beg to differ. It is selfishness. Nothing can do greater good on earth than money, but selfishness would pluck the feathers from an angel's wing to adorn a bonnet. That is why the daughters are left to " take care of themselves " at sixteen and eighteen, while their mothers--do likewise. Then a high time ensues. I shall not say to you: "Girls, go to your mothers with all your doubts, your puzzles, your fears. Ask that which you wish to learn, and they will tell you, because I should not have to tell you to do so if you have the right kind of mothers. I should consider this an open insult to you both. If that mother be the mother she sho...
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