WOMEN STUDENTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20963, 28 February 1930, Page 16

WOMEN STUDENTS.

THE OLD CONTROVERSY. (Froji Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, January 16. In the magazine of Queen Margaret College, Glasgow University, there is an attack made by,“ A Broken Man ” on women students. This has set the ball rolling,' and again we have protests from distinguished women students. That women have “no aptitude for serious study ” is. .one of the complaints made by the embittered critic. “It is perfect nonsense to say that women do not take their studies seriously,” said Miss Dorothy Evans, secretary of Women Clerks and Secretaries, in an interview. “ Exactly the contrary is true. In my days at Manchester University I found that women spent much more time in study than men. They were rarely without their books. “ The men undergraduates, on the other hand, spent a considerable time in playing games and in organising ‘rags.’ Women are usually far too busy working, far too interested in their studies, to waste time in ‘ ragging.’ Whoever hears of a ‘rag’ originated by women? “All the charges ‘A Broken Man’. makes are quite unfounded, and one can only suppose that he has suffered some serious disappointment which has distorted his views, of women.”

MEN OF BRITAIN, SEE TO IT! A letter from Miss Florence Emery, a King’s College student who replied to “A.Broken Man,” has brought a retort from an -Ealing reader, who signs himself “A Mender of Broken Men.” Ho writes:—

“ The letter of a College student is a sign, of the times! History records the decay of great nations through the decay of 'women, -who’ had hitherto mothered the race. Men of Europe and of Western civilisation must realise, be-' fore it is too late, that women are not , Jit to act as leaders, and that the law of the survival of the fittest will pre-, vail.

“ The black and yellow races will take the lead, for they do relegate women to their proper sphere. The males of these races are heavier and stronger than women,jand less dominated by the subtle wiles of women than men of the while races. Women are inferior to men in all ways that count for leadership. Men of Britain, see to it! ”

. JEALOUSY OF WOMEN. A woman doctor suggests that jealousy of women’s achievements is behind the letter of “A Broken Man.”

“ Why is it,” she says, “ that so many medical schools once opened to women are now closed to them? The explanation is obvious. When women began to take the best prizes, and were able to show better results in examinations than men, the young male students became alarmed, and began an agitation against the admission of women to their schools, which has unfortunately succeeded. “Men go to Oxford largely because they consider it Ms a social advantage to go there; women go to study, and the women’s colleges now have the pick of women’s brains.”