Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-10
THE AssOCIATION OF THE SEXES.

An inquiry into tho Rules and Results.
Special Correspondence of the INrELLlGExCER
MILLERsvILLE, Pa, Juno 10, 1SS1.-An
obviously unfair attempt is being made to
create tho popular impression that the
present protest ola large and respectable
portion of the students here against the
action of the faculty is only "gotten up
by q few unruly spirits, students and
others, who wanted to take liberties in
violating the regulations governing the
social intercourse of the sexes which could
not be allowed without impairiDs the dis.
cipline and usefulness of the school, -
The number and character of the students
engaged in and sympathizing with the
present movement cffectually disprove the
foregoing assumption. 1t gains no cred
ibility of course from being the er.ca.Aedro
utterance, as it were, Of a representative
of the trustees, whose journals has scarcely
made pretense to give an honest and truth
full account of events here this week.
The main point at issue now, is the
regulation of the faculty against 'sabusive''
criticism in the society proceedings Of their
regulations, and tho enforcement of it
which has been made. AS has been am
ply shown in tho INTELLIGENCER, the
denial to the students here of the right to
criticise the manner of governing the
school, per Sc, is to emasculate the institu-
ton of its assumed character of being a
training school for teachers. It is only
when such criticism passes into mere per
sonal abuse that the faculty can be recog-
nized as having any right Or propriety in
inhibiting it.
But back of this main issue-which in
our judgment must eventually be decided
against the position of DR.. Brooks, and in
which tho students can afford to rest their
case ON the facts of the Coates Nipple criti-
cism-the rules governing the intercourse
of the sexes and the enforcement of them
here have been calculated to provoke Just
such sharp criticism as has given rise to
all this trouble. The same state of facts,
as has been familiar to the students here,
if published abroad, would have evoked
from newspapers and the general public no
less criticism of the faculty and no'greater
sympathy than they found in the vivacious
society journals. These rules are under
stood to be as follows:
mo prolonged conversation between the
sexes must take place in the Lecture Room in
the Recitation RS9s OF IN teG iecsses Or
ciety meetings. all will repair Immediately to
their respective rooms
mo student shall CORRESPOND, meet. walk or
case OF necessity; and then only with the per-
mission of the Principal: A violation of this
rule will be severely punished; hsd;no s;s..r, y,
cousins in the Institution whom thcV wish to
visit may obtain Visiting Cards from tic Prin-
Which viii them 1e of
"Students of the two sexes, Other than reia-
tivcs, cannot meet privately except by the
Ss sio to aaS
students, must obtain permission OF the prin-
cipal Except for special reasons: no visiting
will he permitted ON tho Sabbath"
Under the practical operation of them
in this school-where the co-education
of the sexes" is claimed to be part of the
plan. where it is held to be an eminent
success, and where, in the language Of the
catalogue, cit is believed that the pre-
sence of each has a beneficial influence
upon the other r"-results are often reached
calculated to provoke ridicule, to incite
correspondence, and to defeat
the very ends which are held to be the OBJ
jects of these rules.
This can be illustrated by the incidents
which provoked the articles that have led
to the troubles.
During "the commencement season."
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