... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of t...hose candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mrs. Pilletti: This girl is a college graduate. Catherine: They're the worst. College girls are one step from the street, I t...ell you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The system--the American one, at least--is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But f...rom kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a girl of today leaves school or college and looks about her for material upon which to exercise her trained intelligence, th...ere are a hundred things that force themselves upon her attention as more vital and necessary than mastering the housewife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of ...Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th...ese college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate, Keep all you have of queenliness,... Forgetting that you once were slave, And let your full lips laugh at Fate!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were soundly taught and the curriculum carried no hint that we were young women and not young men. We were not corrupted by hom...e economics or dressmaking or cookery or any such soft substitute for hard thinking. We were compelled to take sciences whether we liked them or not, and mathematics and Latin were emphasized and excellently administered. Each year the student body petitioned for a course in home economics, for in that day no girl thought it possible that she might not marry, and each year the faculty sternly refused to yield to the request.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »