New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-04-30
corDUCATION AT COLUMBIA.

TIE COLLEGE.
Associat,on for Promoting the Higher Educa-
.;on Of Women is circulating many copies OF peti
49, addressed TO the Board Of Trustees OF ColuhO
Couege asking ii to consider how best 10 cA'o'
9TH as little delay possible, to sucn plopeJ
oralied women as may desire 1t, the many "1
~. benefits Of education in Columbia College oy
.dmitting them to lectures and examlha'ion'
has NOT been decided when this petition snah "
"'' "a - tha hoard The monthly meeting OF
AZ trustees will be held tomorrow. Dug tAe P''
49,, iii not he handed 10 them before the June
oa.;n, and the work of collecting names VIII DE
,;,,ad another month at least. IL was stated
1o., night that over fifty physicians nave sisneu 'ue
rot;tion as well as many clergymen' espec'AiH .,
.ho PRESBYTERIAN denomination, and principals anu
.1oono-s IN several girls schools, besides many
o,rer persons interested in tnolouen
edncation for young women '.''.
ubicb reporters Of HE ''"0 NE ~,
bad Yesterday with nearly every trustee VIM WI.
attend the meeting tomorrow VIC" 'i' -
~oedncatiop will probably be discussed or the meet
- I,,a chow that the petition will have little
-, =; onen,nr the doors of this conservative col
- % female students Only one trustee supports
49, olo;rns of the petitioners The Board OF Irus-
- lI,, has tweutv-three members but there
xovocancv at present caused by the death Of Dr.
p,adle of Poughkecpsie. Two trustees are In Eu-
,one and Will not return until next fall. and two
more are too i'll 10 attend the meeting tomorrow
M those who will attend and who have gwen their
;io,s IN the subject are Hamilton Fish, who is
tho chairman of the board DIR. f. A. p Barnard,
rr.s,dent Of the college; Bishop Potter. the Rev.
i,r Morgan DIX. the Rev. DR.. Talbot W. Chambers,
Ir C. r. Agnew. Mayor Low of Brooklyn. stephen
?. Nash. and Edward Mitchell. The trustees are
elected for lie. and are generally members of the
ar
exception all were willing to state that they were
opposed TO admitting young women to the regular
classes.
in his last three reports to the Board of Trustees.
President Barnard has given considerable space to
the subj ct Of admitting women 10 the classes OF
the college and III January last the advocates OF
the higher education movement requested HIN 10
-eprint in pamphlet form what had previously been
mart Of h,s animal reports. In a letter answering
this request dated January p, President Barnard
wrote The interest y0u have manifested In TINS
matter has greatly encouraged me, as furnishing
evidence that Influences more powerful than am
able to exert Will I've brought into activity Tor the
advancement Of the cause which have endeavored
IN the reports referred to- according To my a"ll'y'
10 advocate The pamphlet winch was furnished
contains fortv-six pages. III three parts. FROM inc
report of 1879 there is chapter "ou the eXpe-
teucy of receiving young women as students IN
Columbia College" in which 1t Is stated; HE
admission Of voungiwomen into the classes would
not IN auy manner interfere with or emnarrasS the
processes of instruction they are now conduct
ed The next report devoted 10 the history OF
,he movement in England and last year he gave
the recent progress OF opinion favoUng higher edu-
cation for women In TINS report President Barnard
eys that the faculty ready to teach girls her IN
the same classes with the boys OF IN
seuarate classes IN the plan Of the Harvard
Annex. adding: The time seems therefore to have
fully come when Columbia College should feel her
s@f urged by every motive of expediency OF duty
10 30 her part in CARRYING forward this noble and
benefcent work The public uund Is prepared for
it:a large nunher-lt Is believed "a maiority-Of
our most enlightened fcllow-cItIzens eagerly de-
uand it the members of our faculty without ex-
ceptiOn favor 1t 4; circumstances such Is to
MAKE il easily practicable and whatever may hap
pen th~ year the next. Columbia College will yet
open her widely enough TO receive all earnest
an honest seekers after knowledge without any
distinction Of class OF sex
WHY MR. FISH OPPOSES coEDUCATION
The strongest opponent TO the " experiment" as
II ha, been called is Hamilton Fish, the chairman
nj The board and its old 81 member. He said that
h. had several reasons for refusing the request of
the s-socIatlon which Is using President Barnards
report o. the trustees influencing people TO sign
tne petition. | am opposed to coeducatlon,' said
Mr. Fish from the very fact that young men and
Young women are in the classes. This alone
would prevent my ever voting 10 have women adj
United TO the college IF which am a trustee
4. that your only objection =
There is no room at Columbia for girls. Why,
We are now expanding nearly million dollars to
erect new bindings 50 that We may have room
sufficient for our present classes and why IL
de 4 for other huliiugs7 =
Are the promoters Of the movement patrons
OF Columbia Collegef
80 far rs know not one Of the ladies' who have
taken active part IN 1t has ever sent son to our
college and further. To my knowledge not a dollar
has been contributed TO Its fund by tie husband OF
any lady prominent in this present agitation, with
one exception"
With YOUR new buildings could there not be
found sufficient for the few girls who would
car to attend the classes ?"
he subject Of coeducatiOn comes in there again.
No II the friends Of higher education sufficiently
in earnest to furnish the money to erect suitable
buildings near the college where the girls can be
taught m separate classes Will not oppose such a
urvrment'
are the members Of the faculty willing to IN
dertake the additional work of instructing women
IL separate CLASSES =
see such a statement has been gwen to the
pubic, but il probably rests IN some such way as
this The faculty Will carry ont the wishes of the
tr,,- ees, whatever they NAV be-
Are there enough girls desrous of college edu-
eaton TO make it object, financially. for the
bolrd to open the classes to them p
" DO not think there There are very few
Women who need an education equal to that re-
CURED by men. Their whole course of life is 10 be
:, different that there is strong argument in
f.v = of oeducatiOn"
" What do You think the board viii do with this
r.-lt..n. whlch IS receiving many signatlresN