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This volume, published for the Merrill-Palmer School, is subtitled, A Study of the Effectiveness of Their Education. The study, begun in 1932, was designed to explore the needs and types of problems facing college undergraduates and to determine what contributions the college experience had made to the solution. Case studies were made of one hundred women who were willing and had some needs. The method is a valid one. This material is examined rather thoroughly. Among the
chief problems these women presented were personality, health, financial, associate relations, and husband and wife problems. Shyness, sensitivity, and tension were the most usual difficulties related to personality.
The authors say, “The most important finding of this study is that both the parents and educators of our one hundred women, in the elementary school, in the secondary school, and in college, had almost completely ignored the evident need of these women to be prepared for certain inevitabilities of their lives.” To the reviewer this would seem rather an indictment of family life and the educational system in America; however, America still has something of the prairie in it and maybe such studies as this will help teachers to understand the fundamental lack in American education, the teaching of the Art of Living (not d la Europa).