Not long ago th toman's Page" happened to be caught up in the whirlpool of a heated discussion aa to "Whether or Not Higher Education 'Was A Good Thing for Wome! was approached from the two aspects of a woman' word to thet elect. The erpenen Individual happiness tlotuction, and of the cee on the nace tu tener And, woe Unte he promotes of women's rights the Mao's" won a the As one Curiously enough in a discussion of the kind, it becomes necessary for each one to define his own idea of "higher education." If became Quite clear at the start of this particular discussion that no one was opposed to education for women if used in the senso of "training." The erudite symbols, the doctor of letters and the "blue-stocking," however, were the targets. even the bridge-playing youn, matrons and flappers do, on occasion, look wistfully—so we are told—towards the conditions of life surrounding the average "business woman," and reflect on their own, irksome lot. Without doubt, the business woman might frequently be met who would tell you that these sighs and reflections work both way Higher education in the academic sense, albeit necessitated by all kinds of economic, modern motives, is frequently supposed not to produce sufficient benefits to the individual woman to warrant the trouble of acquiring it, More than that, the same line of argument continues, it removes the individual woman, in ning cases out of ten, from her mili ow to such as extent that she cannot honestly admit ultimate satisfaction. As to the race, the nays" cite innumerable instance of great sons of moderately edueated and even ignorant mothers, On the other hand everyone admits the futility of applying general rules. Individual women may find some urgent necessity within which impels them towards a. higher academic education, just as a similar urge accounts for men scholars, and happiness might not be possible to these women lacking such an education, 'The average oman, we main~ tain, however, not react in that way' to higher location, Training matter, "Women obviously, the "These busine:
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