Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-07
AKNOTTY PROBLEM
The Trustees OF the University OF Penn
sylvania Worrying Over the
Question OF
Allowing Women to Enter as Students
for the Full Course Of studies-The
Faculty Favor 1t.

1A!LADELPHIA, October O--Ine 1nnes
says The trustees of the University OF Penn
sYiyama have had trying experience
during the past three or four years over the
knotiy problem of allowing ladies to enter as
students TO the full course OK studies, and II
now begins 10 look though the ladies,
siter Battling 50 persistently and brayely,
sre about 10 have their way. The current
OF opinion expressed yesterday at the meet
ing OF the bosri was favor able to giving the
lar sex the largest educational liberty pos
sIble cousonsnt with the traditions and es-
tAoilshed policy of The University. There
are some trustees, however, who believe II
admitting young women on an equality with
young men whether traditions or established
policy favor it or not
The meeting was held IN the office of
wharton Baker, and, although there was
not full attendance those who came took
lively interest in the subject, and Provost
Pepper IN particular, who presided, seemed
especially anxious that the subject should
receive careful consideration in all its bear
ings.
THE FACULTY FAVOR IT
The matter had already been settled so far
as the faculty was concerned, and the ques-
ton seemed to be whether or not the trus-
tees would give their official sanction to
what has already been done by the faculty.
young lady, occupied a. an Instructor in
moral philosophy at Girard College, had
gone before members of the faculty in the
department of arts and passed satisfactorily
the examinations requisite for admission to
the freshman class, her expressed intention
and desire being 10 compete in tina:
department for the degree of bachelor
OF arts. When she first went TO Prof.
Jackson she was told that under the
rules and usage she could not be-
come regular student for a full
course in the department of arts of the Uni
verslty. Accepting the inevitable situation
Tor the present, she asked to be at least given
the satisfaction of undergoing an examina-
ton, and this being granted che passed salts
factorily all the requirements but the one
which debarred her from admission. Since
then her friends have taken up her cause
and are moving in her interest to have her
admitted regularly. They say, and she has
also said herself, that she intends following
the whole course through, whether regularly
admitted or not. She means to follow the
studies OF the freshman yesr, attend ali the
lectures, be examined for the sophomore
year, and SO on. With such a course per-
sisted In the test would come when, having
finished her studies and passed all the exam.
instsons, she claimed her degree.
WHY SOME TRUSTEES HESITATE.
Already two women have received cerlif-
department, and young women and girls are
admitted to the most of the lectures, except
those on moral philosophy and anatomy.
DIR. Alice Bennett, of the Norristown Hospital
for the Insane, was the first and is as yet the
only young lady who has obtained the degree
of doctor in philosophy from the university.
Friends OF the cause of the higher education
of women in Philadelphia are very sanguine
over the present situation of affairs, and
think that while there does not appear 10 be
any hope of the establishment of co-educa-
ton in the university, the prospect of having
them separately instructed in the same cur
ricnlum, as at Harvard, is most favorable.
The objections urged against co-education
almost entirely relate to matters of taste
and delicacy, and although the plucky
young women who desire 10 fight the
battle OF life on an equal plane with man and
enter with him into the arena OF learn
Ing and the professions acknowledge them
selves willing TO meet all the embarrassments
of clinical lectures and plain talks about
Greek and Roman morality, some of the
trustees are unwilling to assume the respon-
sibility. Another consideration which APP
pears TO have some weight with The trustees
is that there is already a finely equipped
Women's Medical College, white The Taylor
University for Women, with $1,000, 900 back
OF it, will soon be in operation, and co-edu.
cation is already quite well represented by
Swarihmore College. The committee TO
which the whole matter has been referred
consists of Frederick Fraley, Fairman
Rogers, the Rev. DIR. Sch aeffer, Bishop Ste
vens, Judge Sherwood, Charles G. Harrison,
the Rev. DR.. Boardmsn and Horace Howard
Furness.