CLEVER MEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19867, 15 June 1927, Page 12

CLEVER MEN

THE BEST HUSBANDS ATHLETES FAIL TO ATTRACT GIRLS Remarkable diversity of opinion is shown in replies received from students at leading universities in this country to the question: What is the marrying university man’s ideal woman and what is the college girl’s ideal man? AFen students of Princeton University like old-fashioned girls, while Yale and Harvard students prefer a compromise between the old-fashioned girl and the flapper. •Students of all throe universities pick the “good sport” as the best type of girl, but there is considerable difference in second choices, Yale, and Harvard insisting that the intellectual girl comes second, with Princeton voting for the popular girl. “Lions.” Both Smith and Vassar Colleges for Women held that the intellectual man is the most desired husband-to-be, Vassar girls, however, placing tho homeloving man second and Smith girls the athlete. Social lions were fourth choice at Vassar and sixth at Smith, handsome men sixth at Vassar and filth at Smith, and business men fifth at Vassar and fourth at Smith, The male totals in regard to the relative desirability of flappers and oldfashioned maidens wore:—Flappers, 330; old-fashioned, 470; compromise, 1 225. The totals for preferable types of girls were: Good sport, 762; intellectual girl, 481; modest girl, 361; vivacious girl, 314; home girl, 282; popular girl, 248; athletic girl, 233; cultured girl, 42; individual girl, 23; charming girl, 16; girl with character, 11; religious girl, 5; I rich girl, 4; deep girl, 3; aesthetic girl, Smoking. h The girls’ totals as between old-fash-lioned and modern men as husbands were:—Alodern, 175; old-fashioned, 67; compromise, 197. Only seventy-nine girls granted the husband the right to forbid his wife to smoke or drink, while 247 held out for the single standard of morals in such matters. The gir] totals in regard to preferable types of men were:— Intellectual man, 182; home-loving man, 111; athletic man, 102; business man, 64; social lion, 49; handsome man, 48; he-man, 21; parlour snake, 13; super-man, 8; professional man, 5; re-