Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
CO-EUEG4TTON.

Royal Medical College at Kingston, On
tario, so far as medical science is concern
ed, is a failure. Ladies and gentlemen be-
ing together at the lectures, it was deemed
advisable by the faculty to so arrange
the lectures as to make
them more suitable for mixed audience.
This the male students resented, and de-
clared that unless the ladies were
removed, they would go in body to Trim
ity Medical college in Toronto.
This opposition to female professional
pursuits on the part of the male sex is
simply unmanly, and deserving of the
severest condemnation. These young men,
in the efervescence of green inexperi-
ence and superciliousness, set themselves
up as paragons of intellectual strength
and ability, and look with scorn on the idea
of co-equal mental powers on the part OF
ladies, and deem women fit only for the
subordinate duties of life. In thus
heaping scorn and contempt on the fe-
male class of society they seem to forget
that their mothers and sisters are women
worthy of all respect and consideration
1t is to be hoped that such upstairs may
grow wiser, if they should ever chance to
come to years of discretion.
No doubt the ladies of the Royal Medi.
cal college were, in full, the equals, and in
many instances, perhaps, the superiors Of
their male associates in the classes, and
being .piqusd at this exhibition of su
perior ability and acquisition, they
thought to e1pel from the college
those who made them feel their inferior.
ity.
natural endowments to men, that they dc
not rise to distinction more frequently in
professional and literary. life; but
it is because senseless pub.
lie opinion shuts them out OF
opportunities for co-equal educational
culture and attainments. This is reprehen-
sible to the greatest extent.
The faculty of the Royal Medical college
took the stand that the demand of the
male students for the expulsion of
the ladies was illegal and I'M
manly and they could not submit to it.
The male students declared that they had
a right to full benefit of lectures, and
that the faculty had no right to con troll
their lectures, out of delicacy, to the pres
ence Of ladies, whose modesty might be
assailed and shocked by free discourse
on certain branches touching upon ''the
human form divine" The sequel showed
that these young men had only vulgar
appreciation of medical attainments, and
the moro coarse and vulgar the lectures the
moro appetizing for their low instincts.
On the other hand, the faculty averred
that no valuable matter in the lee
lures had been suppressed owing
to the presence of ladies-that they had
never excluded any material facts in their
teachings-that it WAS the manner of the
delivery and not the matter that offended.
A committee of concilistors interposed
to bring about a compromise, and restore
peace. It was suggested that
the ladies and male students occupy
different rooms, and listen to the same
lectures, and not cit face to face. This
proposition was rejected. It was finally
agreed that the faculty should do double
duty, and deliver lectures to the male stu
dents, by themselves, and, also,to the ladies
at different hours, giving additional clinical
lectures to the ladies. This being agreed
to, peace was restored.
This arrangement for female students is
to continue only till the present class is
graduated. The faculty say that the CO.
education of the sexes in medicine
is failure, and that fe-
male students will not be admitted to
the institution for the future. So. at last,
Notwithstanding the compromise secured
by intervening paci6cators, the faculty
have yielded the whole ground, and the
young Canadian medical Doors have
triumphsd.
Through all this ordeal the ladies bore
themselves with the gre ltest moderation,
dignity and propriety. insomuch as to ex-
tort praise and sympathy from all.
Thus women are excluded from the
higher walks of educational and profess
slenal attainments, and then slurred as
being incapable of occupying positions
from which they are debarred. This is
nineteenth century liberal, enlightened,
cultured manhood!