Traditions Upset
By Emily J. Hutchins
(American contemporary. Instructor in Economics, Barnard College, New York. From “The Annals of the American Academy.”)
The reaction that women show today to their educational freedom upsets a lot of the notions we have inherited about the atmosphere of seclusion in which womanly natures have been supposed to thrive.... Whatever fault may be found with our educational system, it has at least provided a belated opportunity for women to share in the social stimulus that men have found and prized in academic institutions.