Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swifter to change than the customs is the scope of U. S. Education. In 1900, about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
...title down in large letters and ponder over it, you will probably ferret out the significance. It is a story of an English bachelor with a past. The past is about to become all there is of his bachelorhood. He is marrying a U. S. heiress on the morrow. Only he does not know she is an heiress and she does not know he is an earl. Neither does she know about a married woman in London and the daughter of the local innkeeper. Both these importunate females arrive on the scene in time to break the engagement late...
...bachelor with a past...
...should young women graduating from college be given the degree of Bachelor of arts, science, housekeeping, and what not? An editorial in the New York Times suggests the degree of Spinster of dentistry, architecture, and all the other subjects which women now feel it necessary to pursue. Here is a subject to which the Lucy Stone League might well devote a few spare moments, instead of trying to preserve the maiden names of married ladies against the machinations of cruel passport officers...
...spite of the well-intentioned efforts of the New York Times, however, one suspects that militant feminists will not rush to demand the degree of Spinster of arts. The Bachelor label is of approved standing, and conveys definite significance. Without it, how could women ever be sure that they had been really educated? Even with this label, some of them must have their doubts...