Education: Strenuous

College education for women is not what it was when Tennyson's The Princess described the first secluded retreat for "sweet girl graduates." Last week the hustling city of New York learned that for the first time women students at Columbia exceeded men in the university's total of 34,997. And last week two new colleges undertook to specialize in fitting women for strenuous modern life. Rich men's daughters assembled at Webber College, Babson Park, Florida. There they will spend the winter, learn to administer estates, specialize in the care of securities, real...

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