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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1922)
SPORTRAITS Nebraska has no alibi to make any where in Its truck record this year or any other year. But other schools and athletldy interested people, lov ers of clean sport, will admit that a strong protest from the Hvisker offi cials would have been more than Justi fied as a result of the slipups at Chi cago. The hot summer days do not phase the spirit of the basketball class under Coach Frank. The members of the class held regular workouts in the armory gymnasium and some heated contests are staged. Were it not for the excellent ventilation system of the gymn, playing basketball would bo an almost impossible thing on the armory floor. But with as little clothes s. is possible, the men find the ex ercise a means of keeping in fine fettlo throughout the summer. Summer school Btudents who hap pen to drift onto Nebraska field any afternoon will find a group of men pacing up the cinder path at a lively gait. Each day from four to five o'clock, the track class has its work outs. Coach Shulte Is jubilant over the numbers and the prospects of the candidates. He predicts an even bet ter high school track year next year than was had this year for there will be better men to develop the teams. ALUMNI IN POLITICO Governor Adam McMullen, '96, Beatrice, republican; .T. N. Norton, 03, Polk, democrat. Lieutenant Governor Fred ! John son, "03, Hastings, republican. Attorney General O. S. Spillman, OS, Tierce; William C. Dorsey, ex-'92, Lincoln, republican. Railway Commissioner lale P. Stough, ex'12, Grand Island, demo crat. Supreme judge Ralph 1. Brown, '01, Crete, fourth district. State superintendent Charles V. Taylor, -9S, Lincoln; K. Ruth Pynle, 04, Lincoln. University regents -Harry 1). Lan- dis, '99, Seward, and Frank B. Kdger ton, '00, Aurora, fourth district; Frank S. Perkins, '15, Fremont, third district. COLLEGE WOMEN SHUN MARRIA (Continued from page 1) munied, and thej were allowed 2o years in which to find a suitable male before being i donated to spinster hood. Vassal- college graduates hae ai parently decided upon a compromise of 50-50. Slightly I"- than onehali' o( the graduating classes marry. Over the entire country, 45 per cent of college women marry before they are 40 years of age, which is approxi mately the. age at which child bearing ceases. As a wide contrast to this figure, of all the women in the coun try, educated and uneducated, 90 per cent marry at some age, and in most states before they reach the age of 40 years. In the majority of cases the non college woman is married long before the fortieth milestone i.? reached. For example, HO per cent of Massachusetts women have married before the college women of their own a ties have graduated. P. B. K.'s Slow to Marry t-bi Beta Kappa contains a larger number of spinsters than the ordinal y majority of average women students. It would seem that the highe;- she climbs on the intellectual ladder, the more loath is the woman to take up home making as a profession. If we invade the privacy of the fam ily circle, we discover that the col lege woman's noncollege sisters, cous ins and friends marry at an earlier age, and with, much greater frequency than the college graduate herself. The marriage rate among the graduates of Washington Seminary decreased from 78 per cent to 55 per cent over a period of 55 years. Those who took up business and profes sions Increased 19 per cent during a like period of time. Those who, either through choice or misfortune, neither worked nor married, constituted onl 6 per cent. However, if 1 per cent equalled one . woman, the celibacy of that 6 per cent would mean a loss of 22.2 children to the total births, ac cording to the figures set as the nor mal birth rate by cugenists. The girls of Washington Seminary who marry, usually do so within five or six years after they receive their diplomas, but the number who marry ten years afterward is very little less. Report By Centuries ( S. Castle in the Popular Science Monthly reports by centuries, show ing that the range of marriageable ages has risen and broadened from eight to thirty years in 1200 A. D.. to fifiteen to sixty seven years in 1900. Coeducational colleges, especially the large universities of the west, show approximately 9 per cent more marriages among women between 25 and 30 years of age than do the strict ly women's colleges. The alumni register of Oberlin College (coeduca tional) shows the marriage rate to have decreased ten per cent in the short period of fifteen years. Although coeducation may seem conducive to "getting a man" it is not so, broadly .speaking, for we find that of the women graduates of Ohio State, Illinois, and Wisconsin universities, only 53 per cent have married within ten years after graduation. The three named universities have practi cally none of the sex barriers which supposedly exist in some of the other universities, and still only one-hall' of their women graduates are invited or desire to become wives! Is it the desire for a career which is responsible for celibacy among college women? Or do they, with the acquisition of a so-called "knowledge of the world" become cynical and sus picious of men and marriage? Those who remain single in order to pursue a career are probably less desir.'.ble at the outset than the stu dents of home making and mother craft. And again, when a woman seg regates herself, she usually does so for a length of time sufficient to in sure the passing of her physical at tractions in the eyes of men. Desire Man Her Equal The college woman who has spent more time at academic work than at the weekly dance fest, desires a man who Is her equal, if not her superior mentally, and as Paul Popenoe cug gests (probably with a smile) such a specimen of the male is exceedingly rare, so the female intellectual is doomed to a manless existence. It is also not seldom that a young man will object to marrying a woman who is his mental superior. Now, if you have had the courage or endurance to read thus far, you will vociferously demand that the shortcomings of the man student be held up to light. Whatever animos ity may have arlBen within you must be short lived, for the record of the man gradual e is, on the whole, satis factory. Men Keep High Birth Rate Harvard, Yale and Syracuse statis tics show that the graduate main tains a comparatively high and con stant birth rate. One of the much flaunted reasons for the. t ilibacy which does exist among men, is the necessity of Ions periods of study and apprenticeship before the graduate Is permitted to 6ntcr his chosen profession. If a man remains ulngle- between the ages of 25 a.ud 35 years, will it not be con ducive to life, long celibacy? But mii arc not the center of at tention in this questiou It follows from the Jr'.requeney with which col lege women marry that birth rate among their numbers are exception ally and alarmingly log. Eugenists have fixed 3.7 children per college graduate as the minimum figure. Wel lesley women average only .86 of a child each. The most proficient students among their numbers show even a worse rec ord. Welleslcy members of Phi Beta Kappa do not average even .86 of a child; their record shows but .65 of a child per member. Bryn Mawr Very Low Bryn Mawr graduates show .84 of a child per married alumna, or .37 of a child per graduate. 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