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the women. This is, of course, what 

 would have been expected. Conversely 

 the women rate the following traits 

 significantly higher than the men do: 

 ambition, business ability, and mutual 

 intellectual interests. As would be 

 expected, the women emphasize more 

 than the men the importance of 

 business sagacity and the determina- 

 tion to succeed. "Interest in religion" 

 is rated the same by both sexes. 



(16%) of these stated that their views 

 regarding the desirability of matri- 

 mony had changed since entering the 

 University. The replies of only five 

 (2.3% of the whole) indicated that the 

 change had been for the worse, judged 

 by conventional standards. In eleven 

 cases it was difficult to decide whether 

 the change in views had been beneficial 

 or harmful. The majority, nineteen, 

 had changed for the better. These 



Table III 



There are other slight, though not 

 very significant, points of agreement 

 and divergence between the ideals of 

 the two sexes. The results of this 

 comparison agree well with general 

 experience. This agreement greatly 

 strengthens the belief that the students 

 were conscientious in filling out their 

 questionnaires. 



Two hundred and nineteen men 

 answered question 5. Thirty-five 



results certainly indicate a whole- 

 some moral atmosphere in the Uni- 

 versity of Mississippi. 



In criticising the student's ideas on 

 mate selection the writer does not 

 wish to imply that the desirability of a 

 mate depends entirely upon his or her 

 worth from the standpoint of heredity. 

 Manners, physical attractiveness, tem- 

 perament, and other characteristics 

 that stimulate the emotions of others 



