The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-03-26
Are Women to be Admitted to Coium-
bin Colleget

The President of Columbia College has ar
gued for several years in favor OF the adms-
sion Of women. and now, at the request OF
some Of the most cultivated matrons Of the
city, he has collected his various arguments
on the subject and published them in
pamphlet. 1t seems that of the whole num-
Der OF colleges in the United States, toward
four hundred, one hundred and eighty-three
were open to students of both sexes in 1879.
In many Of these colleges the students are
permanently resident, separate buildings
being provided for the women students. At
Columbia College, however, the students do
not live on the grounds but separate, each
to his individual home, when the college day
is over. Some of the objections against the
education of the sexes together would there
fore be obviatcd at that institution.
At the colleges where young women are
admitted the girls are found, according to
President BARNARD, to be remarkable for
diligence and assiduity. During the first
seven years after women wero instructed at
Cornell University, no young woman was
dropped from the rolls through failure at ex-
animation. The annex for women at Har-
ward College has had fair success, though
there the girls do not mingle with the boys
US President BARNARD seems to advise. At
the University College at London like sep
aration of classes according to sex was at
first made, but has since been abandoned,
because 1t imposed on the professors double
work. No evil results are reported, though
one-third of the students under the faculties
Of arts, laws, and science are women who
succeed in securing their fair proportion OF
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The Girton and Newman Colleges at
Cambridge, in England, are for young
women, and are very successful The
authorities have more applications for adj
mission than they can accept. The students
go in carriages to the university lectures,
where they are not regarded with opposition
Ly the professors or the young men. The
majority Of the ladies educated at Cambridge
have become successful teachers. Two halls
for the reception of women students have
been opened at Oxford, but the women are
not yet as freely admitted TO the university
lectures as at Cambridge. The students
attend lectures quite apart from the men,
though in some cases the same professor
instructs them. In England, of the four
universities OF old date, two London and
Durham) confer upon women degrees in arts;
one Cambridge admits women to honor ex-
amnations; and at the fourth Oxford some
of the professors admit women to their lee
lures.
The President Of Columbia College there
fore thinks the time has come for throwing
open its doors TO women. The women. like
the young men, would live away from the
college, and they could be taught separately,
II advisable, as at the Harvard Annex And
once the privileges are granted, he has no
doubt that many young women will be eager
to take advantage of them. for he " has reason
to believe that within the past two years
the number Of young women who have
turned their attention to classical studies
has greatly increased, and that there are now
not a few Of suitable age in this city who
are SO well up in their Latin and Greek that
they could probably pass without difficulty
the entrance examinations"