Life — March 8, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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193 us not be so rash. Professor Sumner's deoials and explanations would come along presently, and we would have to eat all our words, What Professor Sumner probably said was that ninety per cent. of the marriages contracted by young men -before leaving college turned out to be less ad- vantageous than they might have been if judiciously deferred. Marriage is an excellent institu- tion. Nothing ails it, When it secms not to work right the trouble is with the folks, When two persons who are unhappy and unsuccessful single, get married and are still unhappy, we call it an unhappy marriuge. That is hardly fair. Marringe is a failure only Sen Ireland was 4 Nation When England was @ Pup. out of ten turns out well. Old Song. Indeed, most of us be- “ lieve that the majority of Marriage vs. Love. marriages are euccessful. I N the papers of February 16th was a paragraph dated Shull we then conclude New Haven saying that Professor Sumner of the that Professor Sumneris _ Department of Social Science at-Yale had a foolish person who “said to the senior class that ninety per. reaches unauthorized cent. of the marriages of the conclusions about mat- present day turn out unhappily, -- ters whereof he is inade- and that marriage nowadays is quately informed? Let not a matter of love, but is taken more asa matter of course. It would be interesting to comment upon this deliver- ance of Professor Sumner, if there S was any probability that hehas been cor- rectly reported, and if there was any certainty that his remarks were im- portantiftrue, The usual experience with the remarks of pro- fessors and presidents of colleges as : reported by the newspapers is that e after all the industrious paragraphers and Canar commentators have spent their strength in» % x) “| Dae dissertations upon them, they are denied, or amended, or : a Great Cats Hy ” qualified by the gentlemen to whom they are imputed. We* / ~~ l theught I was Vellow,. * are all pretty sure that more than one contemporary marriage =