New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-23
TILE HARE1RD "ANNRX.D

The II award Annex" having been fOrnaIly
Incorporated, is now in position to receive en-
dowments and requests 1T is not likely that
many of these will be bestowed upon it while
1t remains the hybrid thing IL is at present 1t
is not easy for people of practical sense to re-
gard with patience the prepostcrous attitude oil
Harvard in relation to the Annex" III 1t Is
willing to have any pedagogical relations what
eye r with women students 1t ought to be Will
ing to conduct them on the same terms that are
granted by Oxford and ambridge-universl-
ties that were venerable with years and hOnors
before Harvard was born into land which
parades ts radicalisn and Its intellectual pro-
gress 1t is time that the hObbedehOy twaddle
about the dangers of this cO-education were
stopped. 1t is not now an open question; Cam
bridge and Oxford settled it some tine ago. At
these universities young women live in their
own "halsn under the guardianship of wise
and good women of the highest social stand
ing. They are taken to the ecture-roOms by
their matrOn guides, and when the lecture is
over are taken back to hall without any UNI
pleasant or degrading consequences. The
mere listening i'll the same room with young
men to the eloquent and profound discourse Of
professor has not been found demoralizing to
either Sex.
The English system involves no social
meetings whatever with the male students,
and the admirable results in the intel
lectual training OF women, and the consequent
improvement of the schools wherein many be-
come teachers have already been incalculable.
In the face of the good SO easily and smoothly
accomplished there is no whisper of disap-
.
ward is wealthy and could have well afforded to
follow tho dignfed and liberal example of
the English universities Instead CT that she
has only permitted the women students to halt
at her back door, allowing her professors to
assume burdens which she shlrks herself
Women have as yet nothing to thank her for,
though they have need to be grateful to these
professors who "Tepeat to the women the in
structiOn given to the students of the college
in the different departments"
The English CO. education which provides for
the mental training in company of young men
aud women and which excludes other personal
association is the system which for years
TIE TRIBUNE has heartily advocated. There
may be better cO-cducatiopal system; but OF
this at least it is known that its advantages
have been thoroughly proved. That 1t has
no drawback whatever has also been proved
and proved, too, by authorities which no
American college of high or low degree has
right to disregard. The sooner Harvard Uni
vcrsity admits women upon exactly the same
terms with Oxford the better for her reputation
for intelligence and usefulness. Meanwhile, if
any generous person proposes to endow the
Annex" he may well consider the sweet reas-
onableness of waiting until the system is
adjusted upon q the principles of sound COM
mon sense. Instead of providing funds to pay
the professors for their extra lectures, the just
and wise course would be to endOw a hall Of
residence, and let the University reward its in
struCtOrs.