Home and motherhood got an unexpected shellacking last week at Stephens College, famed finishing school for future mothers. Stephens' homey President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood, believing that "the mother in the home is the key to future civilization," had gathered some 500 housewives and professionals (psychiatrists, teachers, et al,) for a three-day forum on The American Woman and Her Responsibilities. But Daddy Wood's family gathering turned into a family brawl.
Stephens, a highly successful Progressive junior college of 1,700 in Columbia, Mo., brooks no such nonsense as the theory that women are like men, devotes itself strictly to making women more womanly....
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