University of Wisconsin Oshkosh - Quiver Yearbook (Oshkosh, WI)

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Mrs. Ruth S. Mace Dean of IVomen XA HILE the skeleton, believed to be that of a woman of the Paleolithic Fourth Glacial Period, indicated that the brain caj acity of woman exceeded that of the average male of today, thousands of years passed Indore woman was given the opportunity of really using the brain with which she was endowed. Gradually, she has assumed a more important position in the life about her; today census figures show that there are few trades or professions which woman has not invaded successfully. Throughout history, women, when given the opportunity. have proved themselves capable of matching the skill and intelligence of men by ruling nations and leading armies. Only in the last few generations, however, have women, as a group, been ] ermitted to take their places in the world outside their homes. Education of women, except in the social graces, was frowned upon. In the nineteenth century the | cndulum started swinging the other way. Women gradually worked their way into the educational and commercial worlds. During the World War, someone was needed to take the places of the men in the service. Then it was that women were given the opportunity and proved that they were capable of entering factory, courts, and in some instances fields of Ixittle as nurses, telephone operators, and ambulance drivers. With the bars let down by war. they have refused to return to the tasks to which women of an earlier day were limited. Now. even the most skeptical must admit that women have the courage, the skill, and the intelligence to retain their hard won places in our fast moving civilization. The courage, skill, and intelligence were necessary but would have availed them nothing had they not built upon the sturdy foundation—EDUCA T ION.

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QUIVER Mr. E. A. C'lkmaxs Vice President I N spite of the gloomy present, the future holds out to the young men and women 1 who are entering the field of teaching a golden promise of op| ortunity. Our schools are being critically examined as never before. They are pronounced costly, wasteful, extravagant, inefficient, and incompetent. The traditional foes of free education have seized the moment of financial distress to launch an attack on our school system that is certain to do distinct harm. That reevaluations of our school and our school subjects are necessary is not to be denied, but critical judgment rather than prejudice and hysteria should determine the needed changes. Out of the present welter of attack and criticism will emerge a new kind of school, freed of much accumulated dead timber and meeting more nearly than before the needs of each individual pupil. In this work of reconstruction, the present younger members of the teaching profession will take a leading part.

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May M. Been ken, Ph.D. University of Chicago Mathematics Mable G. Blake, B.S. University of Wisconsin Art Education Ethel J. Bouffleuk University of Chicago Art Education John A. Breesk, B.S. New York University Music Education Florence M. Cask University of Indiana istory, Sociology Malvina C. Clausen, M.S. Columbia University School of Library Science Librarian Page twenty-four