National Republican., 1878-04-26
Co-Eduoation of the SEXES.
IsITA POND DFLusION2

kind and gallant gentleman Professor
Bascom director Of u collegiate institute Of
tho West whcro young ladies and gentlemen
are educated together) gives It as his opinion
and tho fruit Of his experience that not only
Is the plan Of educating youths of both sexes
together feasible one, but that girls, so far
from being unable to keep up with boys In .
| course Of study, are naturally better students
than the latter, beng of more sodentary
| habit. Commenting upon this, tho New York
Times admits that girls are more sedentary.
| that Is, bettor at sitting down. than their
masculine cOmpecrs, but gives several very
emphatic and conclusive reasons why II Is q
ridiculous farce for a young woman to attempt
to keep up with tho average youth of the inalo
gender in the strange and fearful acrobatio
career denOminated his collegiate course"
Heaven defend MS, we never supposed that
she could-but then we do object TO hav-
ing the merit Of this inequality all thrown on
the side Of the great strapping hulks Of boys.
For instance, how big fellow with a hand
like young sampson, ever learns botany wo
cannot tell. What becomes Of the ethereal
fragments OF a composite fOwor Ia the paws Of
bouncing big boy who is the leader Of his
crowd in the baseball iniquity, is and always
will bo a mystery to US. Our cotemporary
asserts triumphantly that one of the first les
sons freshmen have to learn is how To get tho
Janitors COW up stairs into the dnrmitory aud
women being mortally afraid of cows, there 10
no chance whatever Of the sex getting credita-
bly, through this part of q collegiate course.
Don't be too sure of that Mr. New York
Times,
The COW might be "muley." or the ma
jority Of the girls might be from the rural dis
tricts and there Is no telling what u lot Of
country girls will do for fun. But we give 10
up. We retire before the COW, and acknowledge
that her part in collegiate course" is a little
too boysterous. We also withdraw with shivers
from the suppositiou that any sane woman
could wish to approach within forty miles Of
base. ball and tho diabolical apparatus so fear
fully suggestive of cracked skulls and thump-
ing headaches nnd we never needed to havo
1t proved to us but once, and that was by pain
full experience, that when woman draws her
hand back and tries to throw Il stick ut = COW,
or great big goat, the stick Is as likely to hit
her behind the car as to fly At anything else. In
regard to football, commentator is equally
correct. 1t Is not woman's sphUre. Whether,
as the Times asserts, the superior soles Of tho
pretty girls of st. Louis and Chicago are better
adapted to the pastime of propolling tho gen.
tie ball, we are unable to say, but we rather
think such "shindics' are teetOtally beyond
the feats Of the foot feminine.
A third branch of collegiate accomplish
ment whi ich otioctually shuts oil woman from
competition with her Lord and Master we arc
triumphantly told, is her inability to hoot and
yell at boat race, and to keep the fin up un-
til midnight by bowling for tho successful
candidate; moreover, that woman cannot
run" and consequently that she Is to-
tally incapable Of tearing along
the shore in accompaniment to
the aforesaid boatraco encouraging the favorito
crew with ear-splittiug cries. Alas then,
and did our cotemporary never see or hear
gentle maiden flying across the green with u
caterpillar in her sleeve or wasp crawling
on the back Of her neckH Pinbacks are PIN
backs, and modern fashion Is n mighty en-
SLAYER; still there are times when we eau run
and "holer," too.
However, there Is one thing We have been
wanting to say all slong-there are one or two
advantages which u woman possesses as aids
to study which man can.nsver enjoy. He
cannot pull the braid Of his back hair over his
shoulders and twist and untwist it while he
mum, mum, NUNS over his lessons, or curl up
the corner of his apron, or the end of his hair
ribbon, smoothing out the hard knots Of the
lesson as magically by these little accompani-
monts Us If he were turning the key Of mes
mcric machine in his brain He can't do this,
we'll bet him our bran-new Easter bonnet.