, 1874-06-28

cultlvator, enough 70 oeuouhiIhte VIII All sue
ngor Of true induction, TINT Fhatevor lncapac-
it, there N y be is not inherent IN the se1."
Report Of President White, Of Cornell ''The
best Greek scholar among the 1,900 students OF
tho University Of Michigan. few years since !;
the best mathematical scholar in one of the larg-
est c1asses Of that institution to-day, and several
among tho highest in natural sclence and IN the
general courses Of study, are young women. Ihe
most concise and vigorous rendet1cg OF Iac1tua
was gwen BY young lady ana 10 ,, better woIk
was found anywhere than that OF the women OF
Antioch College,"
President Fairchild on tho gitl-graduates mar
riago- prospects .'To show that our system does
NOS baWilder woman with vain ambition, or tend
impressed upon her entire constitution, 1 may
state that, OF the 81 Indies that lave taken the
colege-oourse. p only are unmarried. ofthese,
i died early: 2s have been out si1 years."
Mrs Edna Dean Cheney on Marriage III
girl has been taught that woman'a sphere is mar
r1age, and marriage alone that only by that
means can she hope for life OF happiness. uso-
futness, and respect, ,-she will PROBABLY become
miserable, helpless, lonely, irritable woman.-
perhaps seeking marriage at any price to es-
cape from the condition she breads; or, fail
ing that, finding life without purpose, occupn-
tlon, OF delight It is possible to remain
unmarried from low motives, shrinking from the
duties aud responsibilities OF the relation, or
from worldly ambition for highar citation than
love offer. Such Bin brings its own terrible
punishment But far more often it is from 3
high ideal Of marriage, from true nobility OF
character, or from devotion to some other rela-
ton which seemed paramount, that woman re~
ma1ta single"
Mary Somerville: (which prejudice e1ists
against high intellectual culture for our sex, from
the mistaken idea it would render woman un-
fit for the duties Of q wife aud mother. can
only Say, from experience that tue higher
branches Of mathematical science, as well Us
natural history, have boon to me al inestlmable
blessing throughout the Whole course of my
life"
When to these conflicting and apparently ir-
reconc1lable diferonces OF opinion regarding her
ability to endure study, we adj the disputed
question of the kind Of culture suited to her
nature, embracing the
rRos AND CONS or co-EDCcAT1oS,
We shall sy1npathize with, if VIC do not share, tho
girls perpla1lty.
:" We all agree says the Rov. DR., Todd Of the
sexes, that, in childhood, IN the nursery. 30
long as they are under tue mothers eye they
should be educated together but the question
is. when the days Of Irritation have arrived, when
the thoughts Of the young naturally and strong
ly flow towards one point, when the passions arc
strong and the will weak, and the Judgment
experienced. is 1t wiso to bring the two se1os
together in college ~
James Freeman Clarke says, speaking Of IIar-
ward College :" We have at present mora thann
thousand young mon students in the different
departments ef the University. II We had a
Thousand young women there too, they would it,
crease the means of the University and its power
Of usefulness. AL the serious objections to its
workings are urged by those vino have had no
personal experience of its working. For young
mon and young women to associate together
openly in study and social life is likely to bo
beneficial to BOTH"
The Nation on the contrary, has the follow
Ing: "The boy goes from home, passes four
yenrs in the comparative freedom Of eolleee-life,
and leaves the ooltege-walls i man. Are We pre-
pared to have our girls do ths same? ? Many
boy ia wrecked in his course. many one ssun1-
bIes and RECEIVERS himself; but girl cannot re-
trace false step AZ her brother can. For her,
once to fall is ruin"
D. B. Hagar, member OF the Board Of Edu-
cation in massachusetts, Bays: t. During many
years in which examined and watched, 1 never
heard the first complaint made Of any evil or
Jury arising from the fact that growu-up and
ma1riageabla young men and women we're study
ing together at Bri1gewater and WestfeId."
Noting. in Miss Bracdett's book on the Educa-
tion Of American Girls, that she regretted hav-
ing no testimony from the Northwestern Uui-
tbs Womau's College, Miss Frances Willard, to
obtain the result OF her experience in co-educa-
tion at Evanston. Here, perhaps, 81 favorably
as anywhere. 80 far a. special provision for
the girls Is concerned, the experiment.
on tha theory advanced BY the pressdent: "N
q university would furnish to young women the
same advantages it ofrers to young men, 1t must
provide for them both courses Of study and
meaup OF accomplishments. It must place
women among the instructors, to nympathlze
with and counsel the young women. It must
also provide convenient and economical home,
where their morals, health, aud manners will be
constantly under the special care OF women"
Miss Wizards testimony was
IN FAVOR OF THE EXPERIMENT..
Still she admitted there were the occasional
d" dirtatlons" which Dr.. Todd fears, aud also
positive engagements of marriage. But"
added she. and the addition is significant
as indicating the secret OF her own
:" the girls tell me ali about it, and, If their
studies were interrupted, l should interpose
with my advice. But which is the better place to
form an attachment for life, and where will
young people know each other beBt,-at school,
where they meet dozen times day. or In the
excitement and glamour Of fashionable party,
or from waltzing haif-dozen times with ench
otheri" find also the samo idea advanced by
James freeman Clarke: =" Engagements might
be formed This il probable. But which arc
the most favorablo times for such engagements,
when young men and young women meet for
gayety, or when they meet for study"
Thus we have in volumes Of controversy tho
pros and cous Of the girls education, while she
Bighs for vade-mecum. Is there, therefore, no
basis on which tho disputants might agree no
middle ground between the positions OF the
special pleadera,-the doctor, on tho one hand,
viewing his profession invaded by hosts OF the
oDcoming woman and the teacher, his college,
gates crowded and his college-cofera swollen By
the long race Of fnture daughters yet unborn;"
no alternative between implgning Creative Wis
dom in the proposition that the normal state Of
woman is sickness, and insulting the common
SENSE Of the community with tho proposition
that, il haI enTeebled condition, she is still tho
equal and superior of the male student in all
contents OF intellectual Rttainments?
Must We either relegate woman to the rank Of |
Anna Dicainsons trio,