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2. If you do not prefer marriage, 

 please state your objections to it. 



3. If a young woman has a favorable 

 opportunity to marry, do you think 

 she should reject it in favor of a career? 

 (In medicine, teaching, business, etc.) 



(Answer Yes or No.) 



4. Underscore the number of sons and 

 daughters which you think would 

 constitute an ideal family: 



Sons— 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 

 Daughters— 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 



5. If you are favorably disposed to 

 marriage, please fill out the table below, 

 thus indicating the relative importance 

 you attach to the qualities of a pros- 

 pective husband. For instance, if you 

 consider social ability the most impor- 

 tant characteristic for a husband to 

 have, place 1 after "social ability" in 

 the table. If you consider disposition 

 the next most important consideration, 

 place 2 after "disposition," and so on 

 through the list. 



a. Personal neatness. 



b. Prominence. 



c. Artistic ability. 



d. Good looks. 



e. Natural mental ability. 



f. Disposition. 



g. Interest in religion, 

 h. Honesty. 



i. Social ability. 



j. Sex purity. 



k. Education. 



1. Willingness to rear a family. 



m. Abstinence from use of tobacco. 



n. Abstinence from use of liquor. 



o. Abstinence from use of drugs. 



p. Attitude on woman's suffrage. 



q. Health. 



r. Ambition. 



s. Fondness for sports. 



t. Family connections. 



u. Business ability. 



V. Mutual intellectual interests. 



w. Native State or Section of country. 



X. Wealth. 



6. Have your views regarding matri- 

 mony changed since you entered this 



University? 



If, so, what were your views previously, 

 and why did you change them? (If 

 you have previously attended any 



other college or university, indicate 

 any change of views since coming to 

 this University.) 



7. Age. 



8. School and class in University. 



9. Home state or county. 



10. Married. 



You are not expected to sign your name 

 to this questionnaire. Please mail the 

 questionnaire, filled out, to H. R. Hunt, 

 University, Miss., before April 24, 1920. 



The above is the questionnaire which 

 was mailed to the women students. 

 Ninety-eight per cent of the women 

 expressed their preference for married 

 life. Seventy-four per cent of them 

 believed that a woman should marry 

 even if given a chance to enter upon a 

 career. Of the sixteen women (26%) 

 who believed that a woman should 

 reject matrimony for a career, fifteen 

 answered question 1 affirmatively, indi- 

 cating that they were not emotionally 

 averse to marrying. Obviously they 

 are not "men haters." Banker, work- 

 ing on the data from Syracuse Uni- 

 versity, suggests that the University 

 curriculum attracts women who, on 

 the average, are somewhat abnormal in 

 their sex reactions. While the evi- 

 dence indicates that there may be 

 some women of this type in the Uni- 

 versity of Mississippi, they do not at 

 the most constitute more than a fourth 

 of the women students, and the fact 

 that nearly all answered the first 

 question affirmatively strongly sup- 

 ports the view that they have fairly 

 well developed domestic instincts. 



Sixty women replied to question 4. 

 The averages computed from the 

 answers to this question are 2.1 sons 

 and 1.9 daughters. This practically 

 amounts to a family of four children. 

 The minimum number of children men- 

 tioned was two and the maximum six. 



Question 4 does not bluntly ask each 

 woman how many children she desires 

 to have. Such directness might have 

 aroused an antagonism which would 

 have kept many from answering the 

 question at all. It seems likely, how- 

 ever, that the "ideal family" would be 

 the goal toward which any woman 



