Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1869-10-22
EDUCATIONAL.



THE following discussion Of this subject is taken
from DR.. BushneIl's last work, HOmen'' Suffrage
the form sgains Nature published by &C. Sorioner &
I Co.. New York His advocacy Of a common training
forthe sexes should have more benefit from the TACT
that he opposes female suffrage and every thing That
in his view seems likely to unsex and coarsen Wo-
man.
We have made good and right beginning al
ready in the matter Of education, and the benen-
cent results that come along with our new codes
Of training are even a surprise TO US competing
Us to rectify great many foolish preJudloes thAt
We supposed 10 be sanctioned as lneVltau-e Wis
dom, by long ages Of experience. The joining
for example, of the two sexes in common studles
and common college life-what could be more
uu-university-like, and morally speaking more
ahsurlg And as far as the young women are
/ concerned. what could be more unwomanly and
really more improper confess, with some NOR
tifcatou. that when the thing was first done,
was not "a little shocked even by the rum0r Of IL
But when, by and by, some fifteen years ago,
lriftei into Obcrlin and spent Sunday there,
had new chapter opened that has cost me the
loss Of considerable cargo Of wise opinions, all
scattered in loose wreck never again 10 be gath
cred found that the Old church idea Of a col
F le-e (C0I.giBm), where youths Of the male sex
were gathered to the cloisers Of their male teach
er,. the monks, and where any sight and thought
Of a woman approaching the place was conceiy-
ed 20 De proclamation was itself a dismal i'm
posture, aud kind Of total lie against every
thing most benehcent in the bisexual order Of
our existence learned, for the first time, what
IL means that the sexes, not merely as by tWo-and
two. but as A large open scale OF society, have a
complementary relation, existing as helps to each
other, and that humanity is disionted creature
running only to waste aud disorder, where they
. are put SO lrasuuder As 10 leave either one or
the other in a properly monastc and separate
state. Here were gathered for instruction large
numbers of pupils, male and female, pursuing
their studies together In the same classes and
lessons, under the same teachers the young wo-
men deriviuga more pronounced and more posi-
tive character in their mental training from as-
socation with Young men in their studies and
the youn. men closer and more receptive refine
meut and a more delicate hahitual respect to
what is in personal life, from their associations
with young women. The discipline OF the in
-;iution, vatchiul rs it properly should be, was
vet sind of silence, and WAS practically null
being carried on virtually by the mutually quali-
fying and restraining powers Of the sexes over
each other There wa scarcely single case Of
discipline. or almost never more than one, occur
ring In year In particular there was no such
thing known as an esprit du corps IN deeds OF
mischief no conspiracies against order ana the
faculty, no uoli prominence IN e'll aspTei To- NJ
lying proudly done for the safety OF the cian' n'
oiroa5i''es oi haAng perpetra'ed. anu - 'N,
ancient, traditional, hestate Of college life and
all the immense ruin Of character propacaiei boy
the ciul-.aW % stIln gentiy male OF moll''.t
a~-o,ltiou, was totally escaped and put away.
What We see occurring always, where males are
stiherel 'n "a s,iel! 'A5nsei 'e', "Ae'i1i l'
lle PRISON, VT lAesA'l- OF me SCHOOL, OF 'Ne 'l-
my-eFefF neg lu-u z o' ,-e t'r'" az l'.i' -N
e'i l' SeIi uhie'' 7Alllel away A''ie l-. '9s.-
"'' 10y 'Ae as'o-i''l- ' 'le se'''e' seA' VIM '.H
mol '-ole'''el ll l'' '-4 cannot '1HA 0' IL WIZ"
res ti-
ana "la' - ''H- a-' was f'o''N ..
,"lleSl experiment ms 7,noe 'e1n Flo,1'
'.-7- .- twenty ''' y 0'-'1 -,
u--''F y'Hei l.t.-9 I'd i'-'7.'N' '' "S-'
a.. varieties e' .-'eI-'. ,l s' -.
Iatit- mus u any oNe sAoAi' -I.' 's''e '- AZ '"1
success OF iAis H's' tr'a' al 'oerun was que ..
tAe riiiitl'ir' 'ei! strongly li,uo1I'ei pee
fe's-- Us .-l-e-1t lA,.e es,A--'7'ieI' ''s -1'!
hear President h-nn' oi 'Ae 1Hil'IiAn 0.l.5se q,
Aut.2eA' "Aere .-7o 'Ae l"' 7'Ay7 "eIe C''1o'H''
20 the same studies, uniting iu the tesumony-
have iae most orderly SOBER d,,.-en'' eA-
eNpaiE institution iA 'Ae c'l--'!' We l'ss-'
through the last term anu are more man nan
through the present anu nave NOS ntI ociA-
sion 90 make single entry OF any misieLAe NOR
~ cur record hoo-.-aota "a ct,e iar any serious
discipline There Is 20 rowdy.sm ~ the village
no nocturnal rmT1-es making night hdeous.
All is quiet, peaceful anI the women oi the
village feel the uresence OF olr students, when
met IN the streets IN ihe evening, 70 De a pro-
lection rather than an exposure 1t is almost
five years since came here and, as yeti have
had ne practical Joke or college prank, aS they
are called, played upon ne-no. ID snsle ln-
stance A very intelligent writer IN the u ta'-
"' 'Her Heii,'' Aol a4lnled VITA inls anu W.T."
many gihef colleges tesuhes TO 'Ae decisive suPe
fi'Ilis mere in NOR" 'ena'',I' anu Jus io 1'-e
A.n.f .n Tue name ''-lIe 80 l'", ",'siilenl! ueh-
Drei' iJ 7atia-' I'D q l9ucn oI pis-'an,iy' 'n'.
80 male sluIe1is were AIsl ealiei ssn'ieNeh ai
AAiaiA'
The experiment of Joining the two sexes in The
same studies, and composing in that manner the
society Of college Gfe has nov been carried far