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By ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
While the question of acceleration ceased to be an open
issue for the men’s colleges soon after Pearl Harbor, it is
still debatable for women’s education, in opinion of Roswell
G. Ham, president of .Mount Holyoke College.
An’ immediate and obvious comment, he feels, would be
that since women of college age are not concerned with the
draft there should be no necessity
for them to advance the year of
their graduation.
“But,” he continues, “that an
swer takes for granted certain
premises which may not be alto
gether sound: First, that this is
a men’s war; and, second, that
.college women should continue in
the leisurely process of liberal
education, against the day when
the world will need their philos
ophy and art.
“Such a view would assume
that the men’s way of accelera
tion is only concerned with the
■attainment of skills and sciences
to win the war, and that for the
duration they are dedicated to an
illiberal and unbalanced scheme
of education. Of this danger both
the men’s and women’s colleges
nre well aware, but the latter are
equally aware by this time that
total war takes no account of
sexes.
“The second argument, that
w omen constitute a reserve
against the future, is more ten
able.
Two Problems
“We are posed with two prob
lems: One, whether the program
of acceleration is worth while
for the women’s colleges during
the period of the war, and an
other, whether it may not be a
permanent and justifiable out
growth of the present emergency.
For the first I have very little
to add to the argument.
“Leaving aside the argument
that acceleration carries with it
0, whole train of headaches for
the administrator, we may exam
ine for a moment the chances of
its continuance after the war. The
arguments against compressing a
four-year college into three years
have to do with the maturity of
college students and with the
standards of their education.
Lower Returns
“As to the matter of matur
ity, there is certainly a point of
diminishing returns, but it would
hardly seem to be determined by
a three as opposed to a four
year course. If only it were a
matter of a specified amount of
knowledge to be accumulated,
dubtless we could pack the four
years into two.
“T hese arguments concern
both men and women. The men's
colleges are committed for the
duration; if this is to be a long
war, the women increasingly wall
have to bear their part and, un
less all predictions are awry, they
will not be contented to lag be
hind.
“It wall serve us well to have
open minSs. For this might also
be hazarded, that, when the
American public discovers that
there is nothing sacrosanct about
four years, it will not easily re
vert to abandoned ways.”
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