Title:  A Girl’s Student Days and After

Author:  Jeannette Marks

Commentator:  Mary Emma Woolley

Release Date:  April 23, 2006 [EBook #18234]

Language:  English

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A Girl’s Student Days and After

By

Jeannette Marks, M. A.

(Wellesley)

With an Introduction by MARY EMMA WOOLLEY, LL.  D. President of Mt.  Holyoke College

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Introduction

The school and college girl is an important factor in our life to-day.  Around her revolve all manner of educational schemes, to her are open all kinds of educational opportunities.  There was never an age in which so much thought was expended upon her, or so much interest felt in her development.

There are many articles written and many speeches delivered on the responsibility of parents and teachers—­it may not be amiss occasionally to turn the shield and show that some of the responsibility rests upon the girl herself.  After all, she is the determining factor, for buildings and equipment, courses and teachers accomplish little without her cooeperation.

It is difficult for the “new girl,” whether in school or college, to realize the extent to which the success of her school life depends upon herself.  In a new environment, surrounded by what seem to her “multitudes” of new faces, obliged to meet larger demands under strange and untried conditions, she is quite likely to go to the other extreme and exaggerate her own insignificance.  Sometimes she is fortunate enough to have an older sister or friend to help her steer her bark through these untried waters, but generally she must find her own bearings.