New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-09-27

| the salary WINCH attaches 10 the position
|: may be Interesting &c some of your young
| bachelor readers to announce that the Sc
nor:ta is still disengaged.-Merico CssTc
| sp0adeUce 81. Louis Republican.
|
Sex and Race.
! I: was we'll said By the Romans Journal
| the other week. that those who oppose the
| coeducatiOn OF the races usually oppose
J with equal yehemence. :he coeducation o.
| the sexes. Some Of the mistatements on
! the former point have been admirably ex.
! posed OF late in the Christian Register by
| Miss Charlotte l.. Forten. young lady Of
higk education. well known to many il this
| vicinity. Being allied to the colorei race
by blood. and having been both pupil and
/ a teacher in mixed schools. she can give
! testimony of great value. especially as she
| writes from the South Carolina University.
| where the experiment OF mixed education
| is being successfully tried. She thu:
describes some OF its workings:
"A few mornings since. as fingered by a
| window in the library. looking over the
books, two of the younger students, white
boy and black boy. came IN and establish.
| ed themselves in the window-seat opposite
| me. They we're preparing a Latin lesson;
| l listened to them with much interest as
| they recited to each other. Both were
brigh: and intelligent. but l thought the
white boy showed more familiarity with the
grammar lesson. and the black one with the
history and mythology. A passage about
not know the story, and the black boy told
it to him in very clear. graphic way. The
perfect cordially between theu. their
evident interest in the lesson, and the
pleasant, healthfui way in which the two
different minds acted upon each other.
turned my thoughts again to the much dis.
cussed subject of coeducation. and to that
article in Scrijner's Mon'I,y for May to
whicE l have before referred: and | te!.
ind; ynant beyond tn. power Of expression
at the utter unfairness. the really malignant
spirit of prejudice which. uIconsc:ous.y
perhaps. pervades it."
Again size says:
THE coiored protessc. is Mr. Richard T.
Greener. a Bost.nian. d graduate o: Har.
ward and a gentleman OF high culture and
fine literary talent. The students in rhe
university are about equally divided. col.
orei and white. ] wish those who SO Bit
:eriv oppose the 'coeducation of the races
could witness the working OF the system
here. III one o. the strongho OF rebeIdom.
Perfect harmony prevails, Notwithstanding
the statement Of the cecent writer in Serb.
ne''s Monthly that there are such well
founded moral objections, to say nothing OF
physica. pecui:arities. that the attempt to
mix the races. which might other wise be
considered vain and foolish. should be re.
gardsd as base and malicious. / went one
day into the Lain class taught by PROBES.
sor Greener. 1t was composed Of white and
co!ored boys. Their seat. We're arranged
alternately. and there seemed to De the
best feeling among them.
II saw one white boy sitting close to a
very black one, his arm thrown over the
others shoulder. looking over the same
book. They were neatly dressed. very
gentiemaniy in their manners, and were
equally good scholars. ! saw not the
degrading to either. The white boys in
this class were at first not allowed By their
parents to enter the university because
there were coiored students and colored
professor. They attsrward asked to be
admitted to Professor Greener's class, and
from none OF the students does he receive
more thorough Difference and respect than
from these.
ut is fashionable to theorize on the impos.
sibility OF coeducation at the South. but
these are facts from which there ia no es.
cape. That which is success in the Uni.
versity OF South Carolina can be made a
success elsewhere. Professor Greener is
doing work Of the creates: Importance
here. ! am glad to see that the authorities
OF the college appreciate him. and show
their appreciation socially. as we'll as other.
wise: He is greatly beloved by his pupils.
and his example IS as stimUlatin. ard valu.
able to them as his earnest and interesting
methods Of instruction.
She gives the following interesting &C.
count of her own early experience as
teacher OF white children in Salem. Massa-
chusetts:
Years ago, in one of the Oldest and most
aris:ocratic Of the New England cities. not |
many miles from Boston. colored children |
were denied the same schoo! privileges as
The whites: but long before the war the |
better feeling Of the community was aroused: |
owing to the exertions of few devoted |
abolitionists: separate schools were abolish. |
I'd. and colored girl, graduate of the |
State Normal School, was offered situation |
as teacher in one of the public schools. She |
was at first transtxed with astonishment.
When convinced that the offer was gen.
line one. she OF course accepted. but with |
ZONE misgivings, as she had learned that
here was not single colOred pupil in the |
chool, and that the children were very
ough and unmanageable. She remem.
'ered the experience OF her early child
rood in the prejuGiced city of Philadel-
,hia. and her heart sank within her: but
he resolved 20 try. She was most happily
disappointed. Never. from the momen. she
inferred the school until she left it, was she
eminded by word or act of the children
ha, her complexion was different
rom theirs. On the contrary. she
ad tie satisfaction OF finding some of the
Wider spirits gradually tanning under her
ahuence. and of forming mutual attach.
lents with many of her pupils. which she
,ill always remember with the keeres,
leasure. Afterward she taught in another
ehOol of an entirely different character. in
ne same city, where there were a few col
red pupils, as we'll as whites. They were
Il girls, and some of the most cultivated
eople in the city sent their daughters
lere. Many of the parents were Demo
rats. The principal was lady of the
ighest culture and the noblest character,
nd her unfailing kindness and sympathy,
nd the perfect respect and cordiality of the |
.holars, made the duties of the young col
ed teacher a constant delight. She never
fought Of difference of color. l mention |
lis instance to show how greatly public
ntiment may be changed in few years,
Id how easily people may become famil- !
rized with state Of things which their l
'ejudices at first caused them to declare
nnatural and impossible. '"-Woman's Z
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