Excerpt from The Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 1919, Vol. 12 I have a constitutional objection to statistics. I also have an objection - constitutional or acquired - to the habit of divid ing the world into distinct and unequivocal halves, saying Women always do so, and Men always do - more so. Yet this is a statistical article, based on an investigation of a cer tain phase of women's existence. Curiously enough, it owes its inspiration to an article which has little to do with statis tics - to the clever paper by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight, on Pleasant Possibles in Lady Professors, published in the Journal for September, 1917. In discussing the Lady Professor, Miss Haight makes this statement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.