The Tombstone., 1885-06-22
4 ONCE POPULAR INSTITC-
 TION ABOUT TU FAIL.
This State Of Affairs Said to be Caused b. Paragraph
 CTS ot the Press.
The Girl- Will Not Co To Vassar Unless the Boys
 Ct There Too.

Il begins to be feared that yassar College will go ,he way of ether institutions thai have no, been Nell supported by the public. Eassar was bIg schelne In i;s early days, but ihe novelty Of feInal. college having woIL Hti, the school no longer pTUsccrs, the decline having been steady Tor some time. There Is even talk Q! closing ii. though that V Il Oe hardly done as i.s [ unders, the Vas sars, are immensely wealthy and will noi shut up the shop" for lack of patronage. The faIlIas oil in the rumoer of students has en serious. and the financial rcpa-t for he year just closed shows a deficiency oI sis 796. T.s decreased at end tnce i> attribu ted largely t. the Tiiicule Uf Vassar girls |, he paragrapEers of the press, though other 'au-cs are als" stated, as the admission 10 otGrr cyll"gts of young W omen, the jealousy of other |, DonInati1n- over the preponder- lnce of Bap;ist- in lhe board of trustee. nd tn. unpoPulariJy Ui Prr>idcn; Caldwell O. the 9.h instant thc president aud three .ru-tces resigned
 Perhaps the cIcf cause Of the future ol 'assar hS. not been dt.c ,verei by the trus- tees and those most interested in the success If the Institution; il is not impossible that he cause may he found in lhe .uct that the college is for womtn only, founded and con. duo.cd largely upon ihe theory that there -hout not be co-educ st.un of the sexes Other colleges and high schools, as they ad. init young women, prosper amazingly in tue matters of altcudauce and educaucuai progress of tler female students. and they are doing this while Vassar, with it's better facilities, iis clIeapnc>s ana l;s special adapt. ability To ;Le h., her education q. g.Gis is going down. Il is not only coucedcd but il is claimed by many of the most experienced teachers that in tue mixed schocis, especial. y those of the higher orders. the pupils make fastei progress than in those wnere only oue sex Is taught; besides iEis the The mixed schools are popular and as 2 con. sequence more prosperous. There is another cause for tho failure oi Va>sar, and that ines in the fact that it contcmplates more than women want if not more than they are ca pabie O:. Many women have minds equal to those of men in the same walks of life, aid they are capable of receiving the training
 
 slowed upon men; Uu, such women are by no means ill the majority. II is TO disre spect io the sex t0 say that the dependent position they have occupied in the world since men and women have been in it, has not tended t1 develop thclr minds in way To make it easy, or eyea necessary and de- sirabIs, for them to acquire the education in the "olOg:es' and "osOplics," and matters generally that are chased among the heavier branchcs of study. During late years women have made wonderful progress in the matter of ,n,nd development, aQd desire and deter imitation 10 Ob,ain deeper and more thor ougn education; they are fast walking to the front, though, unfortunately, compara- lively few Cf them as yet feel that the hiS her education neans more than the tejious and is5oriOus storing of tLe minl with iniUrma- ton that wIll not be useful. II tue desire for more thorough educaiiOu were more general anoag tAc sex, Nass&r col!l gc would Lot o-day b- on ;he decline; but then 1t would he better for the young women to get their hnowlcd-c by the side Of the young meO, in the regular colleges and high -chUols.-Sait Lake Herald.