College Girl's Mind

Other timely educational copy was to be found in The New Republic for Oct. 1.

Vida D. Scudder, Professor of English at Wellesley College these 14 years, briefly suggested the content of "The College Girl's Mind," by publishing some of the questions which students of hers, in a sociologico-literary course, asked before the course opened. As a teacher of some experience, Miss Scudder doubtless realized that many such questions are put with feigned seriousness and interest by students either in desperation or in an effort to impress their mark-giver. Still, Miss Scudder felt that there was something significant in the fact that "heads black, brown, yellow, straight and curly, bobbed and fluffed" could think up queries such as:

"Can we ever have perfect international understanding and preserve, at the same time, a love for our own country and a sense of its special importance?"

"Is communism possible? Can class distinctions ever be done away with?"

"Must we destroy what we have in order to start anew?"

"How far can the idealist compromise ?"

What is the "relation of the college girl to the working girl?"