Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-08

remarkable for their eminence and respec- | tability,' asking that women be admitted to | the examinations and lectures of the college. | It is certain that whoever does read this an. | swer, however lukewarm he Cor she*) may
 have been hitherto, will feel himself Cor her
 self*) reused to the importance of greater | educational advantages, not only for women, l but for the superior sex as well.
 The opportunity which this answer of the | trustees affords to liberal minded people, and l especially to these petitioners, to endow Go | lumbia College with capital that shall en- able her to give diplomas to women, is one that should be kept before the mind. True the | trustees have omitted to mention the sum 1 that would be required for such great work, but no one need fear to exceed it. 1 Doubtless this is one of the endorsements with which they are now laboring. Let us hope that their excessive modesty will not l restrict them within too narrow limits. For, in the first place, we should consider what incalculable benefits these diplomas will be- stow on the benefciaries Of the college. If given Gas doubtless they would be) in the spirit that dictated the answer, no one could question that they were the award of dis tinguished merit, that the examinations had been thorough in every respect, no ordeal left unappIied, and that the trustees in their anxiety to acquit themselves of so great 8 responsibility, had made sure that the exam nations should be as exhaustive as the col lege could make them. In fact, who can say that these examinations would not tend to elevate the standard of Columbia until she should stand far in advance of Yale or even of Harvard Then what might not @ woman so endowed aspire to2 To what eminence might she not rise? It would hardly create astonishment (under the circumstances) if it should be the means of calling her to seat among the trustees themselves.
 But on account of the College the answer of kho {ruS ho of are well along the vale of years and have worked hard enough to feel that we have earned our ease. We do not wish to be in volved in controversy, so we allow the vexed questions of the day to slip by us, trusting to the younger generation to set them right. Now this is folding our talent away in nap kin instead of using 1t for the good of our kind. There are those among us who failed to get their share of educational advantages, but who were so favored as to get more than their share of the s'golden mean," a consola tion if not remuneration These last wish to be remembered as something more than mere miIlionaires They wish to refine their gold and in order to do so they leave it to an object of charity or to an institution of learning. How seldom does the privilege of fer itself, as in this instance, of combining the two?
 To go step farther, some have made their wills and lie back in luxurious ease, comfort
 
 we'll. Perhaps they even imagine they have been generous because they have left leg acy to Columbia, but let them not over-esti- mate their act. If it be not too late Chat is if they are not yet overtaken by senility) let them consider the question of revising their testament and making it more in conformity with the liberal spirit that Columbia's board of trustees have exhibited
 Lastly, has it occurred to Rev. Morgan Dix to take advantage of the educational revival which he has (unintent' onally) pro- noted The Lenten season, wherein the clergy remind their congregations of their sins, is favorable time, if taken at it's tide, for the harvest of golden sacrifice There may be mothers who have not yet ordered the spring out fit of their charming debutantes, and who are, therefore, still open to com punctuous visitings Let Doctor Dix by all means begin at once the good work which the trustees have under consideration, by taking up a collection in his church in aid of that conscientious, liberal minded, but alas, impecunious institution Columbia college.
 Used under protest and iR default of that pronoun which is yet to be evolved from our defective lan- guage, and ahich, when discovered will put an end to many misapprehensiors and to many inVid1ous comparisons.