St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-01-27
St. Charles City, Iowa, Jan. 81, 1859
The State University.

The editor of the Iowa City Repub-
lican does not like the action Of the
Board of Education in determining
that females, as we'll as males, shall
have opportunities for acquiring an
education in the State University.
He breads the cultivation of the social
affections in the college {; whereas, in
his opinion, nothing but mental culture
should be allowed there. What a sad
state of affairs it would be if boys and
girls. men and women, should be so
cial ! They were created for no such
purpose |! Were never intended by
their Creator for each others society,
and should be educated in no such
way! Magnanimous man How the
ladies of Iowa City must love him
The young ladies of Iowa under
stand that no less than fire hundred
thousand acres of most excellent land
have been donated by Government as
much for their education as for that
of the young men, and they do not
understand why they should not enjoy
its advantages. But our Iowa City
contemporary will say-"lf girls aeH
go to school, let them be educated
separately--thcy must not be per-
mitted in the University, unless posi-
bly, in the Normal department" Now,
the constitution says there shall be
but one University supported by the
five hundred thousand acre grant, and
no branches ; so that if females are
not allowed access to the University,
with the males, they must be entirely
deprived of educational benefits from
this very liberal aid, which was un-
doubtedly intended for them as well
as males by the general government.
To support the argument that girls
and boys should be educated separate
ly, the Republican editor refers us to
the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
in Massachusetts, founded by that
irascible old maid, Miss Lyon, who
told her ~suitor, Rev. Mr.. Lamb, that
until the day of the millennium, he
need never expect the Lyon and thu
Lamb to lie down together. We wisl
to ask our contemporary if he is pei
sonally acquainted with that school
and familiar with the practical work
ings of the system of the scparat
education of the sexes as demonstra
ted at the Mount Holyoke Seminar.
and that other school, neal by, whcr
only males arc admitted, known a
Amherst College. Does he know q
the plottings II cuunrcr-pro1rI1g
carried on by the pupils of these tw
institutions - the arrangements ~
rides and pic nics-for moonlight e>
cursions to some beautiful lake and
sail thercon-or a visit to the SUNNI
of Mount Holyoke or Mount Tom-al
for the purpose of getting into eac'
others society ; to say nothing OF tn
secret correspondence, elopement
planned, and sometimes executed !?
People who live in the immediat
vicinity of these schools, (as we hav
DONE know all this, and very seldoI
send their daughters TO the Mt. Ho
yoke Seminary to be educated. U
the contrary, nearlySilthe inhabitan'
of Hampshire and Hampdcn conntie
patronize the Williston Seminary q
East Hampton, where the sexes ar
admitted upon equal terms, mingle
each others society, learn and stri'
to emulate each others virtues, to e
Gel one another in intellectual pursuit
and to fit themselves for the after d
ties of life which the two sexes C
pect to share in common III mutu
companionship.