Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-03-09
COEDrClTIOS AGAIN.

h4 stli, tprf q .,n n M
/, rocsiv;,g q ,sro, sb,r. of nuhlic attention.
81, nrosont and IN. si-,s of tho times are
sufTc;e,,1v Mai, IN chow tbo, i, ia reform
that ia s,re n adon,;,n and nj ma distant
Time Anroros of tho cur,en; discussion.
I,ucia Gilbcrt Run.lc writes in the March
Clnt,,rv of the'cduca,ional prjvilepes now en-
tended I, wsnen givipo both an histori-
caI sLc,.h hand n statement of the nresout facili.
tics r. cduca,;nq ,ir,s Ii ia b,t ninety wears
40, lbat tho first snr,o,s demand was made
in Eop,,nd for the hiboe, education of wo.
men To.dsv women take nrizes n, Oxford
and C.n,1rid, &C. and hive 0our;shinr uni
yers,ics Of their own. On this side of the
water Grea. progress has also been made.
Those venerable citizens the Pilgrim Fathers
established schools which girls were allowed
to attend two hours tlay, though afterwards
the Fathers manifested more liberality and
suffered their presence all day long in Sum
mer, wien the big bows would be working a,
home-s reform which probably created is
much discussion and deyeloped as much
opposition in the Pilgrim camp as
thu reform which is now bcing agits,ed.
A couple of centuries later. in 1896.
after discussion which lasted three years,
the city of Boston established n high school
for girls on the model of its Latin school for
boys, but such an army of Young misses
came knocking for admission that the city
fathers were terrified and incontiuently turn
ed the girls and their teachers out and locked
the dosrs OF the school building. Since that
day the multiplication OF American high
Schools and colleges for young women is
familiar to all. The Century writer, how
ever gives some interesting notes of the
opening OF colleges 70 girls In Epglaud at
is, perhaps, % years she saws, "sipce the
English adyoco,es of the higher education of
women began to feel that their educational
advantages could never eouol those of men
INIT, not only tbe subjects ,auybt .hou,d m.
the same but the teacher, CT eou.l and
equally acknowledged ability" In the cours.
of ten wears this feeling broucbt about the
openiug TO women of the Cambridce local
examinations which are si,nnly for standing
or rrade i, pcho,arah;, u;,hont r.fors,ce 4, n
degree A little later tho famous 0irton
colo a was fonndcd ;is obico, beipo ..to
bsd :, '-e,o,ion IN GIRLS, schoo,. and ,o bo,oo
,esch;rce a nos,,;o, a,o,o,ors ., Tho, ,oc,.
p;ed hv The universities toward tho n,b,;c
schools for b,vs rond "to oh,ain fc- tina s,,.
dent, q; lbe college admission IN the cyan.
inn, ma for decrco, nj TIM 1Io;y.-,i,v Of
C,r,hr;d,o ond n.,o,,,,,. - ,,a,, 49, aa,,oa.
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IN. u,d.,s,o,d;,n do, a., ;...,;., l.,
s,,,o,;on .ho,Ld L.. .u. ,,,u- =. A..
n,af.,,o,, ,o,,,,-o. "a, s.,,.,
ionos or ,,a ,niro,s,,,. $3.50 O. ~,
,oro ,..,, into oro-o,,or ,,;u, s;r .,u,o,,,,
In n h;rcJ hr;,,,,ro +, oo,o,,o, 1aeo I,
royy has n bn,Idinc NJ II. or, .rd !,
tho drs, 10 veors ~ ,ts cvis,erc. II "a,
corded the admission, of 81 c,naidsi.s NJ
,,,o,,, n ,ro,,o,.., ,nd,, Ga,
inations which oua,ifv for tho de.res u,
bachelor of arts, These examinations how.
ever. simply fixed n standard of honor 70,
the women and II WA nt until 1919, that
,hc ,hcral action of tho Senate NJ thu mi.
yer,jty placed the women students or Cam.
brdcs for all proot,cal nurno.es n, an canal
footing with the men. tn, women have
be,d their own with the men in sncb mon.
Terminate st,dies 90 N, ,,o,onhys,oo ~ A,
is,otlc ard tho nbilosonbv NJ plato and tho
question of their nhvsicsi ability "a corn.,o
will, their brethren il settled bv the far, That
| tho o,or,,,or, ,ho,nh,.,J,, mol, 49,, =, n,