HECTIC TIMES ARE ENDED

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 101, 15 May 1937, Page 5

HECTIC TIMES ARE ENDED

(Own Correspondent

American Professor and Modern Life ! GIRLS AND CAREERS

— By Air Mail.)

LONDON, April 24. Professor William McDougall, the distinguished1 peychologist, who for the last 20 years has made his home in America, is back in England on one of his periodical holidays. And to-day, in hiis hotel, Professor McDougall, who has come from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, told me what he thought of the younger generation in America. "The most noticeable thing," be said, "is tfie growing tendency towards Victorianism. It's the inevitable swing of tfie pendulum, after the hectic times of a few years ago. "In another few; years the pendulum may have swung too far over to Yicfcoriandsm, but afterwards people will settle down to more normal lives. "Disillusion is the keynote of American youth, The modern young woman once thought it . was fun to have a career, with her own money in her own pocket. And then she found she was being left without a husband. "And if she has a college education — as so many girls have In the States — she is finding that another handicap. A great many men definitely doh't want clever wivesl" As for co-education. Professor McDougall would like to eee a compro-

mise between the systems of England and America. "Up to high school, that is until the age of fourteen, boys and girls should be eaucated together. After that, from fourteen to eighteen, they should go to separate schools. "The average American boy or girl of eighteen, as a result of the coeducation syetem, is to my mind too free and easy. "When they get to universities they should have the opportunities of mixing. while keeping to their separate men's and women 's colleges, This ds done at my own university in NorthCarolina, but not in% most pf the big city universities. "Did you know that in America only two ' per cent. of echool-teachers are menf Boys and girls aldke are taught entirely by women. When men do go in for school-teaching they turn to the administrative or executive side. "I have one other critieism of American schools. They carry the social side too far. A school wiill have as many as five dances a week, with the other two evenings perhaps devoted to moviee. That is absurd. "A fashionable diversion is the sitdown strike. The other day a school sat down in its chapel as a protest against being deprived of its Easter holiday. Yes, it got the holjday."