New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-11-10
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SIR: Amherst College, as your readers will
perceive Is already agtang the question Of the cOedu
cation Of tho sexes and no doubt WILL in the end admit
women TO her classes Tho subject Is just attracting
especial attention In England Miss Jex Blake has
visited Obern and other schools In this country con-
Quoted on this principle and bears testimony to the mu
tua advantages accrung to both boys and girls from
ISOLATION in study. Prof Fairchd vehementy proiiers
his experience tho subdung and softenng influence
of sweet girl-graduates upon unruly hobbledehoy g.
Efforts are soon to be made understood, to loose the
hinges Of Yale and Harvard In order to admit the
ubi1uitous woman within their gates. Very probably
the effort will be successful; the present pubic aglta'
ton will in opening every avenue to education or
the professions to her but 1t Is doubtful II In the emu
common sense does not close them partially again. ana
the best schools of every grade go back to the old habit
Of keeping the sexes separate There Is no question OF
the right Of woman to education in the matter. Troy
vassar and Hoyoke ought II they do not to offer her as
liberal and high a curriculum Yale or Cambridge AS
for the expedency OF mixing boys and girls In the same
classes 1t is matter which bases Itself for adjustment
upon the broad truths Of human nature and common
sense There can be little doubt, US Its adVo-
Gates urge, that each sex is made more am
bilious to excel by the presence Of the other;
and 1t very probable, Prof Farchild testies that
the young men arc apt give up the loud Dragging and
practical jokes in which the soul OF Sophomore re-
Joceth; but 1t has not yet been proved that STEADY
labor the problems renders sentimental at
tachmonts unlikely" No Q. E. d. in Kant or Euclid
tho world began duled the eyes or blood Of
healthy young to golden hair or rosy lips; and
every shrewd father will essay to keep the aforesaid hair
and lips from shmmering about his sons desk during
the time when O. E. DIS ought to be the business OF his
than unlimited ove-making or course no such danger
al this Is to be apprehended for young girls; Pr0t
Farchd bears witness and do the teachers AT Swarth
College, the fact that mo thoughts OF love or
matimOny ever apparently enter into the thoughts OF
zeal for study" And one is Of course hound to believe
them. The experience OF every with gushing young
MATES and the eXacter possesses their souls
that the thoughts Of lover can by no means enter
to. pursue would be to plunge them headiong
into a crowd OF innumeraole "beaux" sure
and u thought OF Irritation But mothers, especially
cultured wslbrod mothers are apt to be obstinate IN
are concerned they will be likely to doubt the sOftenng
effect upon their manners Of half dozen years Of
recent exploits whether Miss Jex Blake, sound as her
theories be- Is the incest critic Of the courteous
Those who urge this socaled reform apt to forget
S SRs nS af ns
and finally WITH bra brains scarcely AWAKE os
preachers, but conscious in every pulse and soft uter
OF their hearts that God meant them TO be wives and
mothers 1t is quite true that most Of the vanity and
Stiffness Of our young girls grow out OF this very con-
seriousness, but practical mother would try to make
her Ch0 wiser ny Dy lldb
God made her to be a mechanic or doctor and then
throwing her unSuarded into crowd OF young men IN
tured women that girls are too much exposed during the
fresh bloom and delicate modesty Of woman instead
Of being to be dssRssd Is her and
Of for girls has caused them to
girl as that Of quiet home and the great result
Of the present agitation for the development Of women
ened. Meantime, the majority OF mothers would doubt
less prefer that their daughters should die idiots rather
instincts toward love and passion unfolding into the
hourly companonship OF crowd Of young men. many of
whOm the President OF Oberin asserts ARE sent to
us by anxious friends that they may be saved" The
darling's tender maiden heart than the teacher who
rshas his mixed classes by patOOns and people
will agree with her In her fOOlishness. Yours,
Philadelphia Oct. 80, 1871 MOTHER
At Convention Of the leading Professors In Agricul-
tural Colleges held at Chicago not long this subject
thoroughly discussed results practical
experience totally at variance with those feared by
"a Mother" The following extracts are from the re-
port OF the meeting in the special correspondence Of THE
TRIBUNE, printed in the Weekly and Semi-Weeky ed
tiOns:
Dr. A. 8. Welsh, President Of the State Agricultural
College at Ames Iowa, said There has been obec
they gave trouble in their intercourse with young men.
as to intellectual capacity the sexes appear to be
equal The difficulties we have with them mar are far
Welsh, " the young women there; should have twice
the difficulty in managing without them. Our best
chemist working In the analytical laboratory is girl
OF IT. The girls do all the hOusework matron super
intends the girls and there Is also general hOusekeeper
The entire responsibility OF governing rests with
the students, who form court five young men and two
young women) that tries all It works admirably,
needing only little looking after. Last quarter there
were few cases to try."
DIR. Dennison stated that the young ladies Of his
Institution Kansas) were becoming eminent agricul
turai studies.
DR.. Gregory, Regent Of Industrial University of Hi
nos mentioned that other sciences beside agriculture
were considered as an essential part Of their system
Orchards forests greenhouses nursery, market
were the different divisions Of their agricultural system
Great had been met with In those departments
the young ladies doing WELL Young ladies' were
not admitted during the first two years Dr. Gregory
has had them through the calculus and thinks
the equals OF young men in ability and the adms-
sion Of young ladies 1t Is much easier to govern the
young men. Scandals may occur but less than when
either sex Is shut up alone.
Prof W. W. FOwel, President OF the State University
at st. Anthony, Minnesota said that there has no
legislation the subject of wOman's education They
came In at the beginning Of his State institution and
have been there since The college piece OF
building and is scan of The two sexes are min
ged almost they are in q family. The young ladies
take Of themselves To the extent OF their studies
they equal the young men.-Ed.
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