. Adolescence : its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education. ns agree with those of Miss Shinn,that college women marry late and in far less ratio than others. Bryn Mawr ^ reports that in January, 1900, of the class ^ Marriage-Rate of College Women. Century, October, 1895, p. 946. ^ College Women and Matrimony again, by Frances M. Abbott, M. D. Cen-tury, 1896, p. 796. * Education of Women, by M. Carey Thomas. Monographs on Education inthe United States, 1899, p. 36. 592 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE of 1889, its oldest class,
. Adolescence : its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion and education. ns agree with those of Miss Shinn,that college women marry late and in far less ratio than others. Bryn Mawr ^ reports that in January, 1900, of the class ^ Marriage-Rate of College Women. Century, October, 1895, p. 946. ^ College Women and Matrimony again, by Frances M. Abbott, M. D. Cen-tury, 1896, p. 796. * Education of Women, by M. Carey Thomas. Monographs on Education inthe United States, 1899, p. 36. 592 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ADOLESCENCE of 1889, its oldest class, per cent were married; of thefirst six classes ending with graduation in 1894, 30 per cent;of the first nine classes, per cent; and of the first elevenclasses ending in 1899, per cent. This shows the impor-tance of time and also how exceptionally old these graduatesmarry. The same result is shown by the following table: Percentage ofgraduates married. Vassar Kansas Minnesota Cornell ) Syracuse >• Wesleyan ) Nebraska Boston , Wellesley ) Smith f Radcliffe Bryn Mawr, Barnard Leland Stanford JuniorChicao-o. 35-131-324-5 15-2 This suggests that the rate of marriage of college womenis decreasing and that the age at which marriage occurs isbecoming steadily later. Miss Abbott (Forum, vol. xx, ) showed that of 8,956 graduates of 16 colleges, 23 percent were married. It may be wrong to infer that if a small percentage of col-lege women marry, it is the college that diverts them or thatthey are less desirable to men. Some who go to college desiremarriage less or single careers more, so that one writer ^ issurprised that there is not less marriage among girl graduatesand thinks college education actually promotes it by makingmany marriageable who would not be so otherwise. Collegegirls certainly have a prolonged period of probation with di-verted interest. During their course, according to anotherwriter, very many receive and reject
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