Miss Egan's Girls

Hannah M. Egan, Ph. D. is grey, matronly, stoutish, wears dark wool dresses and is Acting Dean of the largest woman's college in the world--New York City's Municipal Hunter. This week the city's Board of Higher Education was to consider giving her a permanent appointment as Dean. At least 250 of Hunter's some 10,000 students do not want Hannah M. Egan to receive the appointment. That was the number who had signed a petition against it last fortnight when President Eugene A. Colligan made them stop.

Last week 20 Hunter girls marched breathlessly into the office of Bernard S. Deutsch, president of New York's Board of Aldermen. There the following conversation occurred:

Girl I: We're nearly all seniors, but we feel it's our duty to protest against Miss Egan's being appointed Dean.

Girl II: The trouble is. Miss Egan doesn't trust us. She thinks we're all radicals and rebels.

Girl III: She wants to make us very moral young ladies. She forgets that we come from homes where we have a good moral training.

Girl IV: And she even criticizes the way we dress. She thinks we shouldn't wear organdie blouses or put red polish on our fingernails.

Girl V: She's always getting worked up about schoolgirl crushes. Every time she sees two girls walking down the hall with their arms around each other she calls them into her office and gives them a lecture on the dangers of perversion.

Girl VI: Yes, she puts ideas in our heads.

Girl VII: She said she never heard of such a thing when we had boys in the cast of one of our school plays.

Girl VIII: Why, she even objected to our having a male technician.

Girl IX: She tried to keep us from singing "Minnie the Mermaid'' at our "sing" last week.

Girl X: She called the editor of our school paper "radical and intellectually dishonest."

Editor: I'm no such thing. Deutsch: Have you talked to Miss Egan about this?

Girl XI: We tried to, but she thought we were plotting against her or against the school administration or against the Government of the United States.

Deutsch: Have you talked to President Colligan about it?

Girl XII: We had four hours with Dr. Colligan, but he talked all the time.

Deutsch: Perhaps Miss Egan has the Nazi idea that woman's place is in the home.

Girl XIII: No, in all fairness to her, she believes in the education of women but she thinks we shouldn't be interested in anything outside the school walls.

Deutsch: Then she's just an old-fashioned schoolmarm? Chorus: That's just it! Aldermanic President Deutsch promised to take the matter up with his friend the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education. Next day the Chairman of the Board of Higher Education let it be known that since no complaint had been made against Miss Egan's character or scholarship, he did not consider an objection to her personality very serious. That night Hunter's administrative committee voted to recommend Miss Egan for the deanship. The Board of Higher Education generally follows the recommendations of the administrative committee.

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