New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-10-01
NEW ORLEANS REPUBLICAN, SUNDAY, OCTOBER l. 1871

favor Of the co-education of the sexes II
college are very satisfactory, and may be
said to be conclusive in favor of it,
adoption. This is what President Fair
child, Of Oberlin College, says upon this
subject where this system prevails
The ease with which the discipline of SO
large school is conducted has not ceased
70 be matter Of wonder to ourselves. One
thousand students are gathered from every
State ID the Union, from every class in So
eiety, Of every grade OF culture; the great
mass OF them, indeed, bent on improve
ment. but numbers sent BIZ anxious friends
that they may be saved OF recovered from
wayward tendencies. Yet. the disorders
incident to such gatherings are essentially
unknown among Us. Our streets are as
quiet by day and by night as in any other
country town. There are individual cases
OF m!sdemeanor, especially Among new
corners, and now and then one is informed
| that his probation has been unsatisfactory:
but IN the regularly organized classes of
college and ladies' department. numbering
from two TO iour hundred in constant at
tendance. the exclusions have not, on the
average. exceeded one in five wears. and in
one instance period of more than ten
years elapsed without single exclusion
from these classes. This result we attribute
greatly TO the whole some influence Of the
system OF joint education.
oFenceS against proprietv. that IN a
body OF Young luen forming separate COM
Munlty would seem 20 he trivial change
their aspect Wien the female element is
added 10 the community. From the be-
ginning the Use of tobacco has bee. pro-
lhbited 70 our students. In the presence of
ladies' the regulation has 4 force aud signifi-
canoe tia: could 10, otherwise be secured.
and has been maintained with good de
gree OF success. College tricks lose their
Wit ana attcac'lveness in a community thus
constituted. They are essentially unknown
TO us. ht relations OF the classes to each
other are comfortable and desirable. 1t NAV
be mistake 70 attribute this fact to the social
constitution Of the school. but it seems to
be a natural result. The general force Of
society controls and limits the clannish ten
dency.
Fog thirtyfye years has this system Of
Joint education been pursued at this
college and with the most gratifying re-
suits. Can any higher or better testi-
mony Be produced in its favor? We al
ready educate tie sexes together in our
common schools VII: should they be
separated IN the higher schools, when the
cata.ytic influence they will exert on each
other viii be Of the most beneficial kind?
Let Us have the public grammar and high
schools whore family ard school indu-
ences are combined: where brothers and
sisters can attend together, tie brothers
protecting the sisters and the sisters gent
~ dMoNlshiLg the brothers: where pa |
rents and teachers can consult together
with reference 70 the interests Of the |
children and pupils, and where the com
mUnity generally feel an interest in tie |
school and sympathy with the scholars
In this Way ard hy this means will we
prepare the rising generation for the du-
ties AMI responsibilities which will de-
volve upon them il the conduct Of society
ard the administration Of the affairs of
treat nation