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SEX IN EDUCATION.
induced to go to parties, and, when she did go, studied while dressing, and on the way; was assigned extra tasks at school, because • she performed them so well; was a fine healthy girl in appearance , but broke down permanently at end of second year, and is now a victim of hysteria and depression.”
“ Miss C-, of a nervous organization,
and quick to learn; her health suffered in normal school, so that her physician predicted insanity if her studies were not discontinued. She persevered, however, and is now an inmate of a hospital, with hysteria and depression.”
“ A certain proportion of girls are predisposed to mental or nervous derangement. The same girls are apt to be quick, brilliant, ambitious, and persistent at study, and need not stimulation, but repression. For the sake of a temporary reputation for scholarship, they risk their health at the most susceptible period of their lives, and break down after the excitement of school-life has passed away. For sexual reasons they cannot compete with boys,