Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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D$h Twelve ZJntrnhurtinn DY. $IE HEN knighthood was in flower woman inspired and i-sllll; persuaded man to achievements of valor and mag- :lr nanimitv. This seemed to be her particular forte. UL . The days of the forest lovers fascinate us; but we WE$VL ger remember that they were days of the mailed coat and AL :WEHWH the deadly lance. For womanys sake, the blood of young knighthood was wasted. Strong though she might have been in her natural right, by misplaced position and mis- taken consideration she was weak. She could win by charm and grace but not by strength or self-suchiency. Hers it was to be dependent and defended. The same forces, however, that make her strong today were hers in the days of chivalry, It was only a question of time when her position would be rightly shifted. Chivalry and knighthood still mean to some men, and to a lingering number of women, merely the protection of the weak by the strongeof the feminine by the masculine. But man, as he becomes enlightened, learns well that the distinction between the male and the female is not the distinction between superiority and inferiority. It is the distinction between two independent but interre- lated and interworking personalities. So we would think of the days of knighthood and chivalry not as days when woman was exalted because she was looked upon as weak. Our point of view would be that of womanhs freedom and strengthe the freedom which is her right. and the strength which she can develop for herself. All the grace and charm and captivating virtues of the bygone days would still be hers. But these would be intensified and enriched by the conscmusness and nurture of qualities which make for virility. She would be no less gentle, but her gentleness would be born of the power which grows out of a strong mind and soul.

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