Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1901 — College Education and Marriage. [ARTICLE]

College Education and Marriage.

Professor E. L. Thorndyke of the Teachers’ College, connected with Columbia College, has been discussing the problem, now beg.nning to be an old one, whether women who are college graduates many, and, if so, at what age they decidq in favor of making the momentous change. To arrive at some solution of the problem he has been studying the cata'ogues of Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley Colleges, as well as of the coeducational institution st Oberlin, and the result is summed up in the conclusion that as time goes on college women are less inclined to marry. He says; “It is absurd to suppose that college women differ from others in possessing superior attractiveness in mature years, and we are, therefore, led to conclude that the college graduate has been growing less and less inclined to get married, or less and less able, or both.”