The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-27
FOR OO-BDUOAT1oN.

TESTIMONY FOR OO-BDUOATI0N.
A little pamphlet, gIistening in gilt
cover, comes to US from GaIlatin, Tenn,
and removing the wrapper, we find it to
be the annual catalogue and announce
ment of Neophogen College, an institu-
tion based upon co-education of the
sexes, located at the above place. The
portraits of fourteen "honOr students"
are given, five of whom are young Ia
dies. Enrolled on the catalogue are the
names of 1S2 young men and 101 young
women, and the standard for applica-
tion, punctuality, and department, as
published opposite each Students name,
is about the same in both sexes. Es-
pecially in the matter of punctuality, in
which carpers say that girls are def
cient, we are pleased to note that 100"
stands opposite the names of the girls
quite as frequently as after those of the
boys. Now, although a practical dem
onstration of fact proves more than
any amount of the most logical argu-
ment, we cannot forbear quoting from
this catalogue the opinions of educators
who have a national reputation in sup
port of what we have ever endorsed and
often advocated through the columns of
this journal-co-educati
Says James Freeman Clarke, of Har-
ward: at is no sufficient objection that
the other method has hitherto prevailed.
We have inherited the present system
from monastic times, when priests were
the only teachers; when the college was
cloister, and when it was thought that
the only way to preserve purity was a
separation of the sexes. We have now
learned not to put asunder what God
has Joined together, and we know that
the presence of men and women together
in the pursuits, studies, and pleasures of
life, is good for both. We say that eX-
perience shows that the effect is good on
both; that, by these common studies,
the young men grow less rude, and the
young women less frivolous; that the
characters of the one are refined, and
the minds of the other deepened."
President Hopkins, of the University
of Michigan: "My impression is, that
the advantages connected with our
higher institutions for young men
might be shared by young women, to a
great extent, with advantages to BOTH"
President Blanchard, of Knox College:
''If L were giving an argument upon
the case, should say this: That God
has united the sexes in the family, and
that man and Satan have separated
them in the convent and in the camp;
that love between the sexes cannot be
shut in or out by seminary walls; that
shutting the sexes apart to keep them
pure is a mistake; that Imagination ol
F the absent sex in the separate schools is
worse than its presence in the mixed"
Professor o. F. Lumry, in College
Courant: "Boys and girls think of each
other less, and seek each others COM
pany less, in improper ways and i'm
proper times and places, when brought
into frequent contact in recitation-rooms
, and college halls, than when kept in
, separate institutions. Each sex is not g
hindrance, but in every way a help tC
r the other. The best education, in every
, respect, is that which, while providing
for intellectual, moral, and physical cul.
ture first, best fits the pupil for all the
, relations be is to sustain in the great fu'
ture. Now, it SO happens that the life,
work of men and women, in every de.
, partmeut of society, has to be performed
side by side, and an intimate knowledge
of the mental idosyncrasies of the othel
sex, and an easy bearing in their pres
ence, are absolutely necessary to the
E happiness, and, in many cases, to the
! success of each"
These opinions might be multiplied
e but the foregoing will suffice for oul
| present purpose.
t We have one fault to find with the
college, the catalogue of which is men
toned above, and that in our estimation
is grave one, laying tribute, as it does
j upon taste and dignity. 1t is this: Tht
beautiful name "Neophogen" is supple
mented by the words "Male and Female
College" Our antipathy to this low
manner of expression is so great that t.
US its sight or sound, when used in con
nection with the human family, borders
E almost upon indecency. We hope, in
deed, that this coarse form of expires
. -.
r equally applicable to brutes and human
beings, will shortly fall into such de
; served disrepute as to cause it to be ex
j plunged from the title page of every col
D lege catalogue in the land.