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The one-sided, classical college training has spoiled 

 for life many otherwise good and happy women. 

 Such a course tends strongly to draw the mind and 

 the affections of the young woman away from the 

 home and from motherhood and other such matters 

 so fundamental to the well-being of the race. But in 

 seeking for an ideal school for the daughter the farmer 

 will find unsurpassed that institution which offers 

 extensive courses in household art and management, 

 supplemented fully with work in the so-called culture 

 subjects language, literature, history, sociology, 

 psychology, and economics. This work constitutes 

 what might be called a balanced schedule of instruc- 

 tion for the young woman. If pursued to its con- 

 clusion, such a course of training enriches her per- 

 sonality and multiplies her opportunities for future 

 usefulness many fold. 



ASSOCIATIONS WITH REFINED YOUNG MEN 



If the young woman's preparation for her life work 

 be satisfactory to all, she must have extensive expe- 

 rience in the society of young men such as only the 

 co-educational college can give. As her position in 

 the rural home has been already too much isolated, 

 an exclusive women's college is least to be desired as 

 a place to educate the country girl. But the domes- 

 tic science course in a state university or a state agri- 

 cultural college will be found almost ideal. Here the 

 girl may be held to a reasonable performance of her 



