ABSTRACT
When one interviews large numbers of female college freshmen as we had occasion to do in connection with the Mellon Foundation studies at Vassar, one finds it easy-perhaps all too easy-to divide them into two groups. On the one hand, there are those who seem primarily to need awakening, broadening, opening to experience. They seem to have arrived at a structuring of personality which is premature and brittle, and one wonders whether much change can occur without experiences that might be shattering. In Chapter 4 we examined a case of this type and discussed the processes by which such a person might be induced to change and develop. On the other hand, we also see students who seem primarily to need self-discipline, organization, integration. They seem already to have attained more freedom than they are quite entitled to, there being a serious question as to whether so much expression of impulse is under adequate control by the ego, to say nothing of the possibility that some of these latter students are "impulse-ridden."
