To a largely increasing number of young girls college doors are
opening every year. Every year adds to the number of men who feel as a
friend of mine, a successful lawyer in a great city, felt when in talking of
the future of his four little children he said, "For the two boys it is not so
serious, but I lie down at night afraid to die and leave my daughters only a
bank account." Year by year, too, the experiences of life are teaching
mothers that happiness does not necessarily come to their daughters when
accounts are large and banks are sound, but that on the contrary they take
grave risks when they trust everything to accumulated wealth and the
chance of a happy marriage. Our American girls themselves are becoming
aware that they need the stimulus, the discipline, the knowledge, the
interests of the college in addition to the school, if they are to prepare
themselves for the most serviceable lives.