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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 8 (search)
VIII. maiden aunts. That admirable patriot, John A. Andrew, the War Governor of Massachusetts, was emphatically a man of impulses, and he never used a phrase more impulsive and more questionable than when, in speaking of the single women of his own State, he characterized many of them as being anxious and aimless. He did nond really to lie not among single women, but among widows. His figures are as follows, when he analyzes the whole into its parts: Excess of single women in Massachusetts8,975 Excess of married women1,785 Excess of widowed women52,903 Excess of divorced women817 Total excess of women64,483 Deduct excess of men over women inte, which is always importing young women from beyond the borders. The main discrepancy lies in the vast preponderance of widows over widowers, there being in Massachusetts 73,527 of the former, and only 20,624 of the latter. This, again, is due to several causes: the great annual losses of life in seaport towns, the factory syst
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 38 (search)
ok on humanity with a kindlier eye. If a man has the genius to do it in literary art, he is a benefactor. The error begins when he or his admirers begin to decry or disparage all other forms of literary creation. The merit of discovering the obscure is almost cancelled and neutralized when the discoverer goes on to say that henceforth nothing but the obscure can have any value. I knew a botanist who discovered two undescribed and almost invisible species of plants on Cambridge Common, Massachusetts. It was a boon to science, no doubt; but would it have been a boon if he had induced all cultivators to annihilate their greenhouses, root lip their orchids, and spend the rest of their lives poring with spectacles among the scant grasses of that not very luxuriant enclosure where he found his fame? The novel of pure character, says Mr. Gosse, in the Pall Mall Gazette, is the novel of the future. The after-ages will wonder that we preferred our assassins and our bigamists to the Lad
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 48 (search)
cational facilities is diminishing every day. With the Normal Schools on the one side, and the colleges admitting women on the other, there is a rapid equalization going on. In many of our Normal Schools there is now a four years course; the books, apparatus, and teaching are all of the best: if Germany is the standard, the teachers have often been trained in Germany; and with the women's colleges it is much the same. The grade is steadily rising as to the higher education of women. In Massachusetts about one-fourth of the public-school teachers are graduates of Normal Schools, and nearly one-third have attended such schools — while of the number who are college graduates no statistics are given. Should men again replace women in these schools there is no reason to suppose that they would surpass the present teachers in respect to education. It is certain that the average male teacher of forty years ago was inferior in this respect to the average woman teacher of to-day. Tried