New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-06-06
President MagilL

FURTHER TESTIMONY FROM ALBION ACADEMY.
To ne Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR; We wish, through the columns of your
paper. to bring the testimony OF an humble Western
school against Of the statements Of President Eliot
upon the subject Of coeducaton Of the For2O
years young ladies and gentlemen have been students
together In Albion Academy. They have pursued the
same studies recited In the classes and graduated
at the completion of the We find from the
academic register, that the average scholarship, a
scale OF TO- for the whole number OF years. has been
girls sl5 boys 775 The average scholarship OF la
dies has been higher than that OF gentlemen every year.
except one. The proportion OF girls and boys In ad-
yanoed studies is very nearly the same Can this supe
rory OF scholarship the part Of girls be accounted
for by President ElioPs statement that /" the male
and female mind are not alike 7" Is 1t pos
sble that the frankly-acknowedged difficulty
of the vassar professors in keeping ahead Of tho girls,
can have Influenced the decision Of the learned Presi
dent OF Harvard Whatever be said OF other in
stutons It cannot be said OF ours" that the girls
residents Of the town. and 1--we at home under the super
vision OF parents" Only small proportion-about
three per centbelong to this Glass; and far is resi-.
dence at home from being assistance In controlling
students, that at very moderate estimate twothrds
of the cases of disorder and discipline result from the
liberties taken by students situated 1t is fast be-
coming universal conviction that the evils incident to
the contact OF large numbers Of either sex, exclusive OF
the other disappear upon the Judcious association Of
the two as students The testimony of the Visiting
Committee OF State University is that any appre-
tensions OF danger difficulty from the cOeducation Of
the sexes grOundless The evils feared imagin-
ary the benefits substantial" There is perceptbe I'M
provement In the health Of girls while attending school
the single exception being In the OF those whO for
reasons of economy Obliged to do other work
during recreation hours Why should discriminate
on account OF health against higher edueationf DO
the college years necessarily tax the strength than
those spent the academy high SCHOOL, DO Greek
Latin, anO analytical geometry require more physical
endurance at the age OF 20 than English grammar and
higher arithmetic at 1li Why should discriminate
aganst education at all Is IL education the lack Of
it and OF the privileges It brings which makes our
women feebef Is tho amount of work required of
college student more ardnOus ana eXhaustlng than the
ceaseless routine Of factories the UNMARRIED stitching Of
needleWOmen, the and responsibilities in
separable from the oversight OF large millinery and
dressmakng establishments1 Can any one who has
perienced the wearying perpeyties OF teacher think
that the lady principal OF village school would suffer
health by being transferred TO the senior class OF
Harvard or Valet n tins talk about health means any
thing hut the sheerest mOckery let there be included In
the prescription the factories, shops kitchens, aud
school rooms where women are drudng out thrr lives
IN Il-paid labor. A. L. @.
AiLtOn, Wis, June ?, 1879.