Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-22

are accustomed to be digp6iea anil
resolute outside Of jury-bo1es, AMI
to receive Difference from Amer;c,n
men outside of court-rooms ".
should be altogether struck dun,h
with amusement to find that tbs;,
presence in q courtroom caused
change of front. But Nh.
does not determine whether a nah
lie abnegation of sex, an indiscr;m-
mate commanding of men and
women in all the walks of life, will
intensity and increase in each go,
those traits which are recognized a.
most desirable, will establish .
purer and more intellectual society.
q moro delicate, refined, and m.
right national life. We resent tho
EXCLUSION OF women from colleges:
but when Harvard and Yale ara
thrown open to girls we have no,
gained the victory. We have oplv
occupied the ground. The battle
is still to be fought. 1t is impos.
sible not to have grave doubts Of
the result. believe-frst, last, and
;,lways-il. the highest education
for women; and it is o waste TO es.
tablish girls colleges if existing
ones will equally answer the pur.
pose. BIT it is significant fact
that the chief opposition to the I'D.
mission OF girls to a certain COLLEGE
came from mothers who were I'm.
willing to have their sops attend
mixed schools" I am toll that
even in a college which has been
always open to girls, there is arising
among the professors query as to
whether this is, on the whole. the
wisest course. Theoretically it is
unobjectionable. Separation in
study, association in recitation
would seem adapted to give tie
best results, would seem to he most
in the line of Nature. But if there
are qualities in human nature which
make such alliance impracticable;
if there are underlying facts q
which no theory takes account, bat
which experience brings inevitab,
to the surface; if, for some unex.
planned reason, mixc,l colleges prove
/ less efficient for either sex than
those which are prepared Tor ons
sex alone, We must recognize tho
fact, and shape our institutions se-
cordingly, at whatever inconveni-
ence or expense. shall be only too
well content if the main obstacle
do not prove to bs the disinclina-
ton of girls to submit to tue
rigorof an honorable college curricu
lmn. When I see how Indifferent,
they often are to the advantages al
ready presented: when see how
they drop out of the high schools
I in the second and third years; when
/ I hear that, Ct the thirty courses Of
university lectures thrown open 10
women mt Harvard, not more thSn
half dozen have had a paying
audience of half u dozen eacb,
confess | am no. sany,line. HIS
SAID that the possession OF the sui
frage will give new ambition, and
change indifference to eaSerne'''
But it is no. easy to see why SUI
frage should do more for women
than it does for men; aud, IN spite
OF our rhetoric, it leaves men very
much rs it finds them. The popu'
lace OF New York seem to be no
more intelligent, self-controllea'
patriotic, or aspiring than they
were on the day they were natural
lied. The ignorant, drunken no"
stubborn rustic has been voting al
long as the scholar and gentleman
ut his side. / see far more !lSh' III
the direction of the Vassar College,
! would it we're not called college)
and the Simmons Institute tnsn III
that of the ballot-box.