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College news, April 8, 1925
Bryn Mawr College student newspaper. Merged with Haverford News, News (Bryn Mawr College); Published weekly (except holidays) during academic year.
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1925-04-08
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North and Central America--United States--Pennsylvania--Montgomery--Bryn Mawr
Vol. 11, No. 21
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THE COLLEGE NEWS 3
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN good positions: for women teaching in In concluding, Miss Shearer sid there |-affiliated’ labor college and workers’ edu-
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College Teaching Is Creative Art, Says
Miss Shearer. es :
Miss Edna Shearer,”professor of Phil-
osophy at Smith, spoke in chapel Monday
morning on opportunities for women in
teaching, .
“If you are interested in a certain sub-
ject,” said Miss Shearer, “college teaching,
with the exception of being an independ-
ent student, provides the best opportunity
to pursue this interest.”
Colleges, according to Miss Shearer,
afford greater freedom to the teacher
than schools, This is partly due to the
fact that colleges aré free from many of
the rules and regulations which are neces-
sary to schools and to the fact that the
college teacher has a much greater oppor-
—tunity_for_research.__Miss-Shearer—classed
teaching in colleges next to the creative
arts in opportunity for freedom. -
“Freedom in “teaching,” added: Miss
Shearer, “is only to be earned, for it en-
tails risks, The classroom platform must
not become partisan or eccentric.”
-To give a definite idea of the chances of
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which were compiled after 145 colleges
had been consulted. In 4921 there were
no women teachers in 29 men’s colleges;
now there’ are only two and neither o
these are professors of the first rank,
14 colleges for women, there weré Kors
women, teachers than men. There were
163 women professors of the first rank as
against 131 ymen; .1338 women professors
of the second rank and 34 men; 119
women professors of the third rank and
33 men; while there were 323 women in-
structors and only 53 men. In 104 co-
educational colleges, women hold about
three per cent. of the positions, while 31 per
cent. of the students were women. ©
_ Miss Shearer yaw a tendency in these
statistics . towards change. She also
pointed out that when women had ob-
jected _to—a_tailure.to—promote,—their—ob-
jections were usually answered. She cited
fan instance where a ruling had been made
that the salaries of the women should be
$1000 and that the men’s salaries should
be $3000. After an objection had been
raised, the ruling was .changed to $3000
for both.
Ysurances of their demands being granted.
WORKER'S EDUCATION BUREAU
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demand chances equal to those given to
men. Not until women continue to work
after marriage will there be any real as-|
however more
Full equipment is even
important,
MODERN EXHIBITION
Etchings and lithographs and wood-
blocks by Matisse, Derain, Manet, and
Gauguin, ‘are shown at the Print Club,
1614 Latimer street, from April 6 to 18.
The exhibition is an excellent opportunity
to see the work in the graphic arts of
these famous Frenchmen. It includes the
remarkable ‘“Noa-Noa” of wood-
cuts by Paul Gauguin. :
series
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
intellectual and cultural standards, as
well as the necessity for developing an
intelligent co-operative technique for con-
flict in behalf of organized workers.
With but four years’ work to its credit,
the Workers’ Education Bureau, with its
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Beverly was one of them. She Was always
losing something.
something was in her. eye.
there were snakes in that grass.
a spider? Her greatest mental exertion
was to call for a.coca-cola.
I took. her to the opera, when she came to
New York.
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She: What show is this? _
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Books . . Sports. She. topped every ball.
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own start as a man of the world... It will
change her, too. . I shall come back in a
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few months.
But, six weeks later, I read of her engage-
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bachelor in New York,
arts, whose million dollar mansion had long
awaited a mistress whose social graces were
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American labor movement with the neces-
sity of adult education and the develop-
ment of its youth toward greater social
that at the last American Federa-
tion of Labor convention in El Paso, the
workers’ education movement en-
dorsed for the third time and the national
and international unions, together with
their sub-divisions, requested that .they
support the workers’ education movement
on a per ¢apita basis out of trade’ union
dues, the same as all their other activi-
ties. ae
vision,
was
Organizations representing more than
1,500,000 workers are now actively affil-
iated with the Bureau on that basis while
many others are preparing to do so. Such
widespread desire for adult education on
the part: of wage-earners has never been
“manifest_in_the—history—of—the—Ameriean————
labor ntovement.
ever
Wage-earners, be they
so lowly, and leaders, be they ever
famous, one and all, are expressing
their opinions that the turning point in
the social progress of American labor has
been reached, and that from now on
progress must bé made with education in
the social sci iences as a foundation. It is
generally conceded that education, as evi-
denced in the public school system, works
toward individualism and is mostly re-
sponsible for the lack of social progress
in this country,
so
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All teachers an: students; business men
and workers, invited to attend the
convention during all of its sessions, The
officers and membefs of the Bureau feel
certain that many teachers and students
especially will be interested in this march »
toward the newer education of the masses.
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