232 THE TREND OF THE RACE 
Proportions of Graduates who Marry 
(From Popenoe and Johnson’s Applied Eugenics) 
Decade of graduation.......... 45 755 765 775 785 ’95 ’oo 
Per cent married.............. 78 #74 67 #72 #59 57 55 
Per cent not in home-making 
occupations.............005 20 13 %I2 IL 30 30 39 
Miss Shinn (Century, Oct., 1895) gives the following data on 
the marriage rates of college women assuming graduation at 
the average age of 22: 
Marriage Rates of College Graduates. 
Age Coeducated Separate 
DOH. egies act tate cegee tact BS Tenet d esse andy gies 29.6 
BO eRe CR aoe Neots ADO. Uiveareaieninh Mewes 40.1 
2G wie iad ai gupta suede es BR0224 Siete een 46.6 
AG wr ies chant arse wigueue tg SOx Qs ois cietceniatneeais 51.8 
It may be said that about 50 per cent of college women remain 
unmarried. It is apparently true that women of superior intellect 
and force of character are those who, whether college women or 
not, are pretty apt to be selected for spinsterhood. They are 
more likely to win positions which permit them to enjoy the 
comforts and many of the luxuries of life; they develop other 
interests which often detract from the appeal to matrimony. 
In some cases they lose a certain feminine charm, a misfortune 
that arouses a deep-seated instinctive recoil in the opposite sex. 
There can be no doubt that the race is losing a vast wealth of 
material for motherhood of the best and most efficient type. 
Many of the women who are nowadays most prone to sacrifice 
motherhood to a “‘career” are just the ones upon whom the obli- 
gation of motherhood should rest with the greatest weight. It 
may be seriously doubted if the growing independence of women, 
despite its many advantages, has proven an unmixed blessing. 
Thus far it has worked to deteriorate the race in the interests of 
social advancement, a process which is bound to be disastrous in 
the long run. 
