Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1911 — WOMAN NEARER SAVAGE TYPE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN NEARER SAVAGE TYPE

Professor Sargent Says She Is of Lower Order Than Man—Hat Not Developed ae Rapidly. Boston. —That woman is a lower order of being than man and' that she has not developed bo rapidly from the barbaric state as man is the latest assertion by Prof. Dudley A. Sargent, head of the department of physical culture at Harvard, and well known as. a writer upon subjects pertaining to woman's development Are women constitutionally tougher than, men ? This 1b the question upon which Doctor Sargent was asked to pass judgment. It .ras also a question which was brought up by Prof. John M. Tyler of Amherst at the meeting of the American Physical Education association. “It is a question which is difficult to answer," declared DoctoY Sargent, “perhaps because the word tough* l# one capable of so many interpretations. Taken in the sense of meaning more enduring, I should be inclined to believe that women were in that regard superior to men. “It stands to reason that since they are constructed on a plan better suited to cope with physical forces of a certain kind, they should be able to withstand conditions which man. who is built with an entirely dissimilar object in view. Is unable to contend with. “Briefly, we may say that woman la nearer the savage state. Her development is more primitive than man's, Just as the Indian is more primitive than a white man. "Woman being biologically more of a barbarian than a man, she hap greater proportion of physical endur-

ance. She can undergo many strains that a man can not. “Women accumulate energy while men expend it. Women have been developing their muscles while men have been developing their brains.”