Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-11
NVvTTtFPVhuence of the Herald.
NOTES BY THE WAY.
The state UniVersity-CO-E Education of the Sex.
es-A Suspicious Movement.


Nix. EDITOR 81 note q few items
pertaining to weeks visit abroad.
During my rambles ] made flying
visit to Madison and there spent
very pleasantly few hours with
the professors and pupils Of the State
University.
This institution, W hich seems to be
80 rapidly growing in popularity
and merit, j. founded and governed
by the State, 1t IS located on a
beautiful elevation, overlooking the
city and lakes, with captivating
scenery around. The cluster of col
lege buildings presents tasteful,
substantial and commodious appears
ance. Its cabinet, library apparatus,
re, seem to be all we expect of a
school gifts age. It's faculty bear a
reputation fully equal to their re-
sponsibiity. The students have the
appearance OF capacity and energy.
under competent tutors, to ripen in
to mature scholars prepared for lives
of usefulness and honor. | found
the inmates of this school in har-
monious, hopeful and happy cor di>
dition, with one simple exception.
1t has long been proverb, that
"every rose has its thorn" and in
this case, the naughty, piercing
prickle is said to have been gender
ed by recent act of the Board OF
Regents, wherein they assume to
change the former classification of
the school.
1t is perhaps generally known
that this school has SO far been con-
Quoted upon what is generally term
cd the C0.educatiOn plan, admitting
male and female students equally to
all privileges, honors and standing
of the school They have pursued
the same studies, recited in the same
classes and tc the same professors,
competing for standing in per-
sonal department and scholarly at
tainments. They have also entered
upon, and pursued the same classical
courses; and heretofore have been
so classified and reported in the
catalogues of the college.
The new catalogue for the year OF
1873 was said to have just been is
sued-yet not distributed and, as
common fame reported, the Regents
have therein ignored the form Ell
mode of classification and assumed
to report all females, as simple stu-
dents Of the "Female College,
term never before known as having
any connection with this institution,
In other words the females are deni
cd place or a name among the list
OF those pursuing the course of the
"College of Arts" or college of Let.
ters;" and simply termed students oil
the "Female College" From this
conceived course of grie rance there
seemed to have grown up deep
and indignant feeling, il not excite
ment, among the students in general
~ .seo4uvu " regard the act as one
Ignoring the right of females to the
honors, if not the privileges OF The
College. Very many of them SEEM
ed to regard this new feature as
simply the first step in the dircc-
ton OF the entire separation of the
sexes, and the founding of two sep.
arate Colleges-the one male and the
other female.
Until the honored Board of Re-
gents condescend to explain the
reason for this remarkable change in
the catalogue it will not be thought
surprising, if the students of the
school, with all othor friends of co
education, shall look upon the move-
ment with an eye of suspicion and
regret. With the present character
and prospect of the schools, it is cer-
tainly very greatly to be regretted,
that any thing of vacillating char
acter should manifest, itself, with
those who have been delegated TO
conduct its intert SITS.
If tho body polite of The state
is favorable to c0-educati0n, and |
venture to assume that nine.tenths
are, it then becomes question.
whether or no the Legislature should
not define by statute this particular
basis for the school and thus give
stability, at least in this particular
beyond the reach of a yearly chang
ing Board of Regents?
ls it possible that the extreme and
unjustifiable demands of Mrs.
Woodruff Il Co., have SO excited the
jealousies OF the stronger sex, that
we are driven to the other extreme
of denying the weaker sex an equal
standing with as in our institutions
Of art and science2 SO it claimed
that the females of the school, are
unequal to the males, in graphing
with it's scientific problems Is il
charged that their influence is of a
corrupting and degrading character
in the school? Or is it thought they
are unworthy to cope with those
for whom they were created to make
hapDV If no leoitimate and mat