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enter them, but how about the vital 

 future of the race ? 



Is the woman's college as now conducted 

 a force which acts for or against the 

 survival of the race which patronizes it? 

 Whatever intellectual and moral supe- 

 riority a race may have, it needs also a 

 certain amount of reproductive impulse 

 in order to remain on the earth. No 

 culture, art, science or morality can 

 save it unless it produces about three 

 matured children per married, child- 

 bearing couple, and any race which 

 does not do this is doomed to extinction. 

 If we have forces which are drawing off 

 the best blood of the American stock and 



in the great coeducational institutions 

 with the results tabulated below from 

 the exclusive women's colleges; but no 

 data are available for such a comparison. 

 Either the coeducational institutions 

 have given no attention to the matter, 

 or they are too young for their results 

 and tendencies to be discernible. 



MT. HOLYOKE COLLEGE. 



Mt. Holyoke College, the oldest 

 great college for the higher education 

 of women in this country, has collected 

 some interesting statistics on the marital 

 tendencies of its graduates.' 



Decarle 



of 



Graduation 



Per Cent. 



Remaining 



vSingle 



Per Cent, 

 marrying 



Children per 

 Married 

 Graduate 



Children per 

 Graduate 



sinking it in a dry desert of sterile 

 intellectuality and paralytic culture, 

 let us know the facts, and let these 

 magnificent colleges face them and the 

 race responsibilities invohx-d, because 

 without any doubt, all of our great 

 educational institutions can and will 

 become powerful agencies for race 

 survival rather than race suicide when 

 their wealth and influence become ap- 

 plied along the right lines. The work 

 to be done is not a criticism and reform 

 of the colleges alone, but a change in 

 the ideals and race feelings of the types 

 of i)eo])le that are represented in these 

 institutions. 



Reliable statistics can be obtained 

 from only a few of the institutions 

 granting college degrees to women. 

 Those mentioned below ha\'e collected 

 data concerning their alumnae and 

 have made them accessible for the 

 purposes of this ixijjcr. 



It would be interesting to comjjare 

 the effects of the education of women 



Professor Hewes estimates from these 

 facts that 4L9 per cent, of Mt. Holyoke 

 graduates ultimately marry. 



BRVN MAWR COLLEGE. 



From 1888 to 1900 Bryn Mawr 

 graduated 376 alumnae and up to 

 January 1, 1913,^ 165 or 43.9 per cent, 

 of these had married. Up to that date 

 these akunnac had given birth to 138 

 children, or an average of .84 of a 

 child ])er married alumna, or .37 of a 

 child ]X^r graduate in all classes up to 

 1900. Only 32.8 per cent, of all 

 graduates up to January 1, 1913, had 

 married up to that date. 



VASSAR COLLEGE. 



A comjjilation of the data given 

 in the "Fourth General Catalogue of 

 the Officers and Graduates of Vassar 

 College" yields the following aggregates 

 and percentages. 



' Published by Prof. Amy Hewes of Mt. Holyoke College in the reports of the American Statis- 

 tical Association. 



* See "Statistics of Bachelors of Arts of Bryn Mawr College," published l)y the Administration. 



