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aging 40.7 years, and the actress and the artist stand next. They 

 each average 44.4 years. 



In the matter of education, the technical education is not con- 

 sidered, the object of the writer being to find the importance which 

 general education and college training hold in the making of a suc- 

 cessful woman. It is true, however, that most of the artists and the 

 musicians and many of the educators studied abroad in their special 

 lines. Where no mention whatever is made of education, the writer 

 concludes that it must have been slight. 



The table indicates that college training has played a small part 

 in woman's success, only 148 or 15.5 per cent. The largest percent- 

 age of college bred women is found among scientists, ministers and 

 educators, but even the number of educators who have had college 

 training is less than half, while in all the other professions, except 

 the ones already named, the table shows less than one fourth to be 

 college women. Some of these women have taken more than one de- 

 gree, and others have studied in one or more colleges and universities 

 without having taken a degree in any. The question, however, is not 

 so much what place college training has occupied in the past, as it is 

 what the tendency toward extended study and investigation seems to 

 be. By arranging those who gave their age in separate columns ac- 

 cording to the date of birth, one may get a fair idea of the tendency 

 towards a higher education, and the relative value it bears in the suc- 

 cessful life. All those born before 1850 are classed together and the 

 others by decades. The two columns following the date of birth show 

 respectively the number and the per cent, of college women. Among 

 authors there is an increase of college women who were born during 

 the fifties, over those born before 1850. The next decade shows a 

 further increase of ten per cent., but of those born between sixty and 

 seventy there is a decrease of ten per cent., or from 58.3 per cent, to 

 47.6 per cent. Educators, as has already been said, have the largest 

 number of college women. The last decade considered shows only 

 four names, but they are all college bred. If, however, all the pro- 

 fessions are considered together, the reader will see that the per cent, 

 of college bred women born between 1860 and 1870 is less than in any 

 preceding period. 



The table also shows the chief woman's colleges represented in 

 comparison with coeducational colleges. Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, 

 Eadcliffe and Bryn Mawr each count authors and educators of note 

 among their daughters, but beyond these professions they are scarcely 

 represented at all. The other colleges represented are with few ex- 

 ceptions, the coeducational colleges and state universities east of the 

 Mississippi Eiver. With the exception of the philanthropists, the num- 

 ber who were educated in coeducational institutions is in every case 



