News For Women

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 10

News For Women

((?ONtINUED PAGE 2) \ UNIVERSITY EDUCATION PERSONALITIES DEVELOPED » • Is it waste to send a daughter to the university, ,or is it time, and money well spent?- - -- - ' This is a question asked by specialists on the subject of careers for modern girls in England; and is probably asked by many parents in Christchurch at this time of the year. An authority at Cambridge, England, said recently, that if the university had room to increase" the number of undergraduates by 50 per "cent, every new place would be filled' within a week from waiting applications. There is no doubt then of the widespread belief in the value of the university education.' The fact that more than half the students at the universities in England got there, to-day only:with the help of, one or more scholarships, grants, or loans is a further indication that large numbers of "people believe a university 'education to' be''something for Vrhiph, a" struggle is well worth while. And so it is, if the student knows how" to use it and to be used by it, but some men and women alike-; "go up" and "come down" without learning the secret of the magic power-of a university to develop personality and to turn 1 brains into thinking instruments instead of mere memory, tablets. That is'where the value of university training lies; that is its power to.make a girl's career more successful and, her whole Uferaore- interesting and satisfying both as single woman and as.wife and. mother. But, she .must not avoid the. main" ! stream 'of university life; she. must take an interest in as many of its activities as she can; otherwise she 'if come down fr om the university witti a degree*and.very little else/ '. , Fro,m a utilitarian point of view «™4U education, weft worth while. Preference, in many posts, is jaften gjven . to, university '£W* : i t ho i igh . th J s tendency is less mS 1 !! 1^-6^^ 1 * 1685 wo * ld than, any-; Si«.fr f u r busm f» like ? to nave ita 2;^o lti k boys ! 1 and &** dHMp from la .to 19—there is,no doubt that a university .woman;; once in business- can SEJSf red " c ?i lon one of :her !r«nteL a£S f te *«** an executive , B^S£?2f ll i- and early Promotion, for {..nS^S teught het how *° SSSffl? JSW-iJW?,*' <T responsibility, how-fo'iackle- new 1 problems, and to, be. fruitful In ideas. '