But still other thinking, showing 'a mental growth in outlook which was taking place, trembled in the gathering. Might not the whole conference programme be approach-fed from integrating question. What have been the effects of contacts between Pacific countries, the scope of this inquiry?—The criticism which could be well offered of the programme was that it had no unitying structure, and a common approach to all questions might have supplied this.
As the days wore on, however, became apparent at round tat Conferences that in this first Conference, exchange of national experience played an important part, but that realization that there were international implications as between these Pacific countries for almost every subject grew every day. International education was proceeding.
Perhaps one of the most interesting outcomes of the Conference may be gleaned by a consideration of the resolutions growing out of it. They were few in number; they were definite in form. They pointed to definite research along correlated es, into costs of living and wages, into costs of living and diet, among women, for the purpose of discovering a reality in many of the implications sensed in the course of the discussions. That an international conference of women, as women, should have reached a research programme as its major outcome, is perhaps unique. Tt has dispersed with few injunctions to promote, Instead it has decided earn. In addition, its recognition of the fact that continuous interchange is necessary, in matters relating to education, and industry, is enlightening. It reveals the fact that the Conference was a study conference.
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