Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-25
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STUDENT EXPERIENCES.---2
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1t is think, true that colleges usually
grow up with the community in which
they are situated. They grow in proper
ton as there is a demand for them, if they
arc provided with the necessary means;
and it is, | think, true that the college
which is established to supply an actual
demand, aud battles with difficulties, and,
thus establishes itself, will be far mo g
useful than the college which starts out
with large endowment fur d, and so far
a6Nmoney is CONCERNED has no difficulty.
[ do not by any means intend to imply
that colleges generally receive the support
which they need; for this is not true.
Nor does it seem necessary that our insti-
tutionS of learning should be left in abso-
ute need, in order that they may have
health. That some colleges are greatly
crippled, and prevented from being as use
full as they might be if they had more
funds, is certainly true. If those who
have wealth, instead Of boarding it up.
would contribute a portion of it to some
struggling college-some worthy college
which is struggling for life, they would
make glad the hearts of many earnest
laborers in the cause Of education and
Christianity.
There has been in the past, and there
is to some extent to-day, opposition to
mixed schools, or TO educating both sexes
together. In many of our Western col
leges women have been admitted, not
from choice, but from necessity; not
because the original design was to educate
women, but because an education was
demanded by women, and it could lie
acquired no where save at these colleges
thence, they were compelled to open their
doors to women. The action grew out OF
the necessities of the case Now the
question arises: Have the colleg q Nc Ell
'injured by such course? Has the stand.
ard Of scholarship been lowered ? Have
any social evils arisen from the course !?
1t is generally admitted by those who
have had experience in the matter,
mot only that no great evils have arisen
from it, but that this course, which was
taken from necessity rather than from
choice, has been great benefit Not only
has the standard of scholarship not been
lowered, but it has been elevated. The
Instructors say that, in point of scholar
ship, the young ladies are not at al inle-
rior to the young men. They also think
that each simproved, morally and socially,
as well as intellectually, by being brought
into contact with the other.
In looking at this subject from stu
dents standpoint, I cannot see that the
student of either sex is injured by it, but
on the contrary, each seems to be elc-
waited. By the presence OF the other sex,
each is stimulated to greater effort, and
each accompishes more than would be
accomplished if the othe; sex were not
present. | have seen young men and
women in the same classes, snd seldom
have | seen any gross impropri"ties. That
ttia-young men are elevated and restrained
ay the presence of ladies, no one will
doubt ;.and ] think that. young women are
in no sense lowered by being thas brought
into contact with young men; they Ger
tainiy are not if they can properly con-
duct themselves at home. 1t seems to me
that the Creator saw fully the nature OF
nan VIXEN he placed woman in the world
. saw that one was necessary to tn