SWEET GIRL GRADUATE

Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 5

SWEET GIRL GRADUATE

“WORLDS GREATEST MYTH” STUDENT’S CRUEL SATIRE “UGLY IN FACE AND FORM.” (United Press Association —By Klectnc Telegrapu Copyright.) Received 11.30 a.m. to-day. LONDuN, Jan. 11. | Male undergraduates of tAasgqw university iiave rauseu til© ir© ©i' women students toy afiogataons thatgins do not possess subicient charm t© marry ana tnat so far ,as the Gtasgo.w university is concerned! tlie term •'sweet girl’' is the world’s greatest mytii. a light lias aiisen out of the iejection by tne Students’ Gounoik Qt a proposal tnat new oiub buildings costing £IOO,OOO should be open to women students, and a liame was lit by a mail writing in the students’ magazine ueserimng women students at Glasgow its follows: — . "Ugiy in face, form and mind, no humour, initiative, or origin unity, no love of beauty, no taste in dress, no idea of food, no religious beliefs, no discernment where men are concerned, no .aptitude for serious study, *’o deught in music, no taste for ait and no wish to escape from their destined damnable profession of school teachixior. JJ T’he statement has been widely ieprintedi and has aroused considerable nitemess. A woman .student at London University replies: “If we are ugly in face, form and mind, men are not even conscious that they are so. ff we lack humour, men have only sex and beer for subjects of conversation Their budding oonnoLsseursihip in Rod upringis from snobbery. They do not wish to escape from their destined, i.I iuigerous profession. as our husbaaicls. iVT mail writes in "the c ‘London Ohioiiicle’’ * ‘‘The o»rginal attack understated conditions. Photographs of the drst half-dozen girls seen entering the Glasgow University any _ day would how that not one has sufficient charm bo marry. A;s soon las giife go to the university they get jthe unprossion they are ' competing with men as intellectual and professional equals This l brings out the worst in them. Women are distorting the ideas and desrtiroymg the individuality of every university they enter and give nothing in return. Thev 'are parasites on the great traditions and the average typist beats them for looks. The average waitress gives you a bill with more charm than the woman student puts into half tan hour’s conversation. “The sweet girl graduate’ is the world’s greatest myth.”