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victory, and the indictment was not
THE MOVEMENT AMONG TIE COL
LEGES.

columbia College, OF New ofk, AFTER
long and bitter debate has introduced
plan Of examination under which women
can gain Ambulance there, pursue the
course in the came classes if they wish,
and obtain as high certificate of scholar.
ship as their brothers. Aud why not .
Rev. Morgan Dix does not believe in the
higher education Of women, because. he
says, it assumes that there is lower edu-
cation, when, in fact, the proper education
for woman is high education. The as
umption need not be INDUCED in, for it is
fact. a lower ed ucation for women has
been the rule, but all the tendencies are
now making towards the abolition OF the
distinction. But Mr.. Dix believes co-edu-
cation to be mischievous that the sexes
should not be educated together, and that
higher education for woman claims CO.
education to be an essential In that he is
mistaken. Co-education is distinct ques-
ton. Education of woman, he says, should
be only for her work. But what is her
work ? In that question the whole is
sue resides, and the Trustees of Co.
lumbia appear to have solved the
problem, to their own satisfaction at least.
Their decision amounts to this '"We will
give woman equal opportunity, and she
will determine for herself what is her
work" This is the common sense view Of
the matter, and answers completely Mr..
Dix's finely drawn speeulations concern
ing two beings whom God has given differ
ent places in His world, and different mis-
sions, and to each distinct and complete
furniture of abilities, qualities and en-
dowments, intended to produce such ex-
quisite harmony as is made by divers
notes drawn from divers strings" He
holds, in short, that the work of educa-
ton demands power OF discriminating
between things unlike, and devout and
profound recognition of the immense, the
impossible distance between the sexes, as
fixed by the act of the Creator and Sec
onded by natural laws, which cannot be
broken with IMMUNITY. Very well; if
there exists this intellectual gulf, the at
tempt to give woman equal education with
man will determine it, and woman will
fail. But thus far she has not failed. She
has shown capacity OF development quite
equal to that of man, and if she has not
made manifest the results of her acquire
ments, or has allowed her faculties to rust,
it does not prove that it was an injury in
the first place to open the door of oppor-
tunity to her. The highest civilization of
the race Is to be attained by the intellectual
progression of the sexes side by side. Give
the opportunity; woman, in the very nature
of things, will not avail Of it so largely as
man but for all that, give the opportunity.
This enlargement of the bounds of such
colleges as Columbia, will have beneficial
effect upon the preparatory schools for
girls, and we shall find as the doors of the
higher institutions open wider, that the
curriculum of the seminary will be en-
larged, elevated and lifted out of the Or
binary groove. La this connection it may
be of interest to the friends of woman's
higher education to learn that DIR. Mary
Putnam Jacob, one of the brightest Of
medical scholars, has been appointed, not
only Professor of Diseases of Children in
the New York Post Graduate Medical
School, but "by virtue of her attain.
ments, says the New York Star, she
has been named to be lecturer to the male
students on that subject. This woman
won the place because she was better fitted
for it than any male contestant, and such
surgeons on the Trial Board as Little,
Rosa, Wagner, Pallen, Sturgis and Ham,
mond so decided. In this case the "work ="
of this woman was found, and by her, and
not at all after the manner or by the meth
DDS Mr. Dix advocates. She was given op-
portunity and fair play, and she determined
for herself exactly what God intended her
work to be, and did not apply to the min
| lister who assumes to announce what the
&c fixed set of the Creator and the natural
law is, which may not be broken with
! immunity.