Women -- Employment -- United States; Women -- Social and moral questions
Vassar College 42
Wellesley College 16
Smith College 10
Swarthmore College 5
Boston University 5
Bryn Mawr College 2
Cornell University 1
Syracuse University 0
Kansas University 0
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 0
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Total 81
The president of Michigan University is able to recall from six to ten
women graduates from Southern States, and the number from the University
of Wisconsin has been “not large.”
SECONDARY INSTRUCTION.
From the statistics for secondary instruction in the Southern States, it
may be discovered that there are more than twice as many girls as boys
in attendance upon public high schools. There are three times as many
girls as boys throughout the whole country, it will be remembered, who
complete the high school course. I do not find that a single Southern
city provides a high school for boys without providing one for girls
also, and usually it is the same school for both (though the
recitation-rooms may be separate). Where the schools are distinct, the
girls’ school is usually much inferior to the boys’. This is notably the
case in Baltimore, where the boys’ high school (it is called the City
College) fits admirably for the Johns Hopkins University, and where the
two girls’ high schools are of an extremely low grade. Throughout the
entire South there are only forty-one high schools, while there are
seventy-six in Massachusetts alone, but it must be remembered that any
system of public schools has hardly existed in the South previous to the
war.
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