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Book Title ~ The Dean Of Women
Author ~ Lois Kimball Mathews
Publisher ~ Houghton Mifflin Co. © Date ~ 1915, probably a First Edition but not stated, no other date present.
Cover ~ Brown cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine.
Number of Pages ~ 275 pages with Index.
Illustrated ~ No.
Book measures about ~ 7 5/8 inches X 5 1/4 inches. Condition ~ Good. There are some faint spots/marks on the cover. There is a neatly written inscription on the front flyleaf. There are a few small spots/marks on the margin of about ten pages. There are some small marks on the inside back cover, facing page, next two blank pages. There is a faint edge stain on the back flyleaf. There is a small hole in the middle of the back flyleaf. There are some small insect made holes on the margin/corner of pages 101 to 106, 109 to 112, 123, 185 to 192, and 263 to 275 (there may also be a few pages that I missed) (they DO NOT affect any text). Otherwise this very Rare book is in Good condition!
About the Book ~
"This study deals with a subject which is of much more general interest than its title would suggest. The results to be secured from the college course is a subject which should be considered equally by parents and students educators and administrators and it is the suggestive treatment of this topic which makes Mrs. Mathews book valuable to a vastly larger constituency than that to which it nominally appeals.
The ideal college woman would be a splendid product cultivated and disciplined in mind superb in physique gracious and courteous in manner unselfish honest self controlled and tolerant. These are all part of one's conception of what college graduates should be. The means for securing these results in the complex organization of the modern American university seem to be, according to Mrs. Mathews' views, chiefly in the hands of the dean of women and a group of women under her direction. It is the ultimate aim of every dean of women to make as far as possible this dream come true. To that end she in reality is doing all her work.
Her problems of living conditions of student employment of vocational guidance of student discipline of the social life of the intellectual life all these are but different aspects of the same fundamental purpose to develop the finest and highest type of college woman. Mrs. Mathews' description of the extraordinary equipment necessary to fulfil the duties of a dean of women is followed by the statement that it is evident that no woman is fitted by these standards to be a dean of women. She is right in asserting that any ideal which is worth conserving is always far beyond human attainment and her glorification of the office will undoubtedly serve not only to arouse in those women who hold it a truer valuation of their function but to convey to the minds of university trustees and presidents that the office is not that of an upper housekeeper or even a glorified chaperon.
The detailed analysis and description of the problems which confront the dean of women is based upon the conditions and methods found at the University of Wisconsin. The reader who surmises that the material was gathered and put in shape as one result of the Wisconsin Survey would record one white mark to the credit of that ill advised undertaking. It should be borne in mind, however, by all readers, by those interested in education in general as well as by those seeking information in regard to this special office, that Mrs. Mathews clearly does not intend the Wisconsin method to be followed mechanically or without adaptations to special conditions.
In the presentation of different topics she places The Intellectual Life of Students as the seventh and last [chapter] in order although to be sure she never minimizes."
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This very rare Book would be nice for any Education Historian, Dean of Women, Collector, or for anyone interested in College or University Student Conditions in the early part of the Twentieth Century! It would be a nice Gift! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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