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the women's colleges/ etc. These may 

 be disposed of briefly for our results 

 simply confirm the findings of others in 

 all essential facts. The most striking 

 difference to be observed is the much 

 higher percentage of married men at 

 Syracuse than at either Harvard or 

 Yale. At first thought one would say 

 it is the influence of coeducation. 

 But Wesleyan and Amherst, both non- 

 coeducational institutions, are shown 

 by Professor HalP to have each a 

 higher marriage rate for the same periods 



than even Syracuse. Comparing the 

 women's table with the statistics of 

 women's colleges as reported by Pro- 

 fessor Sprague we find only that the 

 marriage and the birth rates of Syracuse 

 women are distinctly lower than those 

 of Mount Holyoke, higher than for 

 Bryn Mawr, a little less than for Vassar, 

 and about the same as at Wellesley. 

 We are disposed to think that these 

 differences, so far as they are sufficiently 

 large to have any significance, are simply 

 indexes of the ulterior social grou]3 to 



■'Sprague, Robert ]. Education and Race vSuicide. Journal of Heredity. 6: 158-162. 

 1915. 



* Hall, G. Stanley, and Smith, Theodate L. Marriage and Fecundity of College Men and 

 Women. Pedagogical Seminary, 10: 27 5-3li. 1903. 



