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the small number of cases on which it 

 is based. 



The only class which Mr. Price 

 studied in full was the class of 1906. 

 The fij,'ures for this are as follows : 



Total number of women graduates. . . 189 



Married 90 



Married to U. of C. men 30 



Unmarried 94 



No report . . 5 



Alumni records of Oberlin College, 

 Kansas Agricultural College, Wiscon.sin 

 University, Illinois University, and Ohio 

 State University^ have been examined 

 by W. L. Altman of the American 

 Genetic Association, and the marriage 

 status of the women graduates comjjiled. 

 Xo information was found (except in one 

 instance) on the birth rates of these 

 women, nor was it possible from the 

 published data to ascertain the marriage 

 rate of the men. 



The records of Oberlin College from 

 1S50 to 1905, inclusive, show 1,6<S2 

 women graduates, of whom 1,096 

 (65.2%) have married. The high mar- 

 riage rate here, unlike that at the 

 University of California, is in the earlier 

 years. If the 688 graduates, 1890 1905, 

 are counted, 380 (55.2%) of them are 

 found to be married. 



At Ohio State University the niunber 

 of women graduates, 1885-1905, is 274, 

 of whom 148 (54%) are reported 

 married. 



From Wisconsin, 1870-1905, 1.255 

 women have graduated, and 650 of 

 them are reported married, a number 

 that is 51.8%, of the total. 



The total number of women graduates 

 irom Illinois University, 1880-1905, is 

 given as 550, of whom 297 (54%) are 

 rejKjrted married. In the years 1880- 

 1900 inclusive 134 of the total 222 

 graduates married and produced 253 

 children: 1.14 children per graduate 

 or 1.88 per married graduate. Pre- 

 sumably these figures refer to surviving 

 children, and thev are likelv to be 



incomplete statistically, while the fami- 

 lies of the later graduates are subject 

 to some increase through further births. 

 At Kansas Agricultural College, 386 

 women are listed as graduating in the 

 classes 1885-1905, and of these 261 

 married, or 67.6% of the whole. 



RECENT TENDENCIES 



The question of most interest is the 

 tendency to marriage in recent years. 

 The five-year period, 19(X) 1904, repre- 

 sents the latest that can be taken j^rofit- 

 ably, and some who graduated in this 

 period will yet marry. The percentages 

 given are therefore slightly below the 

 final ones. Various colleges for this 

 l^eriod show the following marriage 

 rates : 



Total No. No. Per cent 



College grads. married mwried 



Welleslcy^ 44 



Wisconsin 458 204 44 .5 



Illinois 288 135 46.9 



Ohio State 114 65 57.0 



Oberlin 234 138 58.9 



California^ 780( ?) 480(?) 60. f^ 



Kansas Agric 129 82 63.5 



In all these figures, it must be remem- 

 bered that only graduates are consid- 

 ered, and that a good many girls leave 

 college at some time prior to graduation, 

 for the piu"pose of getting married. At 

 Wellesley Johnson and Stutzman found 

 that the inclusion of these non-grad- 

 uate girls would raise the marriage rate 

 of the whole college by 5%. The con- 

 ditions described by a young woman 

 at the University of Wiscon.sin probabl\- 

 jjrevail in varying degrees at all other 

 colleges where women are admitted. 



"You asked me why half of the Wis- 

 consin girls don't marry," she writes. 

 "I think it's because they never could 

 have married, educated or not educated. 

 There are a lot of pretty girls here and 

 there are an awfully large numl)er of 

 homely ones and, for that matter, 

 homelv men. A lot of the most attrac- 



3 Bulletin of Oberlin College, N. S., No. 120, April 29, 1916: Record of the Alumni of the K. S. 

 A. C, V)l-i; Alumni Directory of the University cif Wisconsin, \9\2\ Alumni Record of the i'niiersity 

 of Illinois, 1913; .llumni and Stu lats Register, <). S. U., 1912. The figures are believed to be 

 corrected very nearly to the date of pul)lication. 



* Johnson and Stutzmann, j). 251. They give the percent married from the classes 1901- 

 1904 inclusive, but not the totals. Status of fall of 1912. 



' Price's actual figures arc 78 and 48. As these represent every tenth name f)n the list, the 

 totals can be api)roximatcd by multiplying Ijy 10. 



