Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-20
LET Loose In ihollOuss OFDsIsvates
Yesterday.
Interesting Discussion Of the Merits
and Dement'S Of co-Edu-
catioa.
Last nights Council Mssting-The Liquor
License Bnl-BoArd Of Edueation.
A Peculiar cAso-A SoeiAlistie
Threat-General city News.


such Order being S. b No. 6. opening the
State University to both sexes. Mr.. Dean
was anxious to proceed with the considera-
ton Of the bill, bat at the request of Messrs.
Haymc nd and Giikeson,it was laid aside for
hAh An hour, to sllew Mr.. Lucas TO be pres
en-.
At halfpast three, Mr.. Lucas having ar
rived, the bill was taken up, the pending
amendment being that offered By Delegate
OAley to strike out the words except that
OF military tactics" Mr.. Lucas moved 20
amend by striking ont the words: Bat
there shall be no discrimination on account
of sex in the admission or instruction ut
students, and every department OF the Uni
yersity except that Of military tactics, shall
hereafter be open to females upon the same
terms and in the same manner as To
males" He then took the floor. on behalf
Of his amendment, stating At the same time
he would extend his remarks TO the whole
bill. If his amendment was adopted the
law would remain as before, limiting the
admissions 10 students Of the male sex.
The apprehension OF the friends Of this bill,
now wSs, a. the speaker had very clearly
seen from the beginning. that this exemp,
non from military duty Of women was
IN DIRECT coSTLIcT (
with the law donating $50, 900 acres of land
TO epdow the University He bad very
great donbss whether those gentlemen who
30 streRuously advocated this bill ever read
the provisions Of Law under which our Uni
yersity was established. The proposition
wSs that ladies should be taught IN the Uni.
yersity everything except military
tactics. Would some Of the advocates OF
the bill explain why they did not want
the ladies to be taught military tactics :
There did not live or breath an advocate Oh
this bill Who could satisfactorily explain
Why females should not so be taught, ye'
they we're moving to strike military tactics
from their studies, in disregard of the funda,
mental principal on which they started out
and in equal disregard Of the laws Of Con-
grtss. They declare that women are meD
in every particular except in the matter o.
khouldering muskets, and yet women have
time and again illustrated
The ANNALS OF WAR
and stood prominently forth in the militar,
history Of the world. II this was so, VIII
exclude them from military dutYI Ii wa
because, when the advocates of this me4sG {
had ridden their hobby into the tenre'
camp and the bloOd-stsined field Of earnsS
they were confronted by the eterna
physiology of Moses" the declaration
ST. Paul and the deVine sdmonitions OF
Jesus Christ, that 9 man is not q woman,
and q woman is not man. That was TIE
n sson. these gentlemen had said tha'
these differences did not exist, and that
ladies' we're entitled to al the privileges
Of men. And what springs from thst?' H.
this country there could not br
found one solitary advocate of
coedGcsiion, who knew what he was tsik
ing about, who is not also in favor Oftemale
suffrage. He was bound to be in favor OF
it if be was sincere. The speaker deuoun-
eed eoeducstfon IS the entering wedge aud
the first step which would lead, logically
and inevitably to female suffrage. The
6rst man Who advocated co-educstion-and
the speaker wished to God he had been the
lsst-also advocated female suffrage. That
man Was Wendell Phillips, Wendell
Phillips belonged to the class of what are
called agilaiOrs. He was type of that
class who have since degenerated into en-
thusiass. He had endesyored to model
himself after q man who
STANDS As FAR ABOVE HIM
as the peak of Tenerif stood above the sea
Daniel 0'Conner. The latter was uui
yersslly recognized as a profound thinker,
and great ststesmsn-the other Was a
mere superficial rhetoritician. After Goa
irssting these two men at some length, and
alludiDg TO Philips as the advocate and
author of the plan Of identical coeducA-
ZION, be said: Wendell Phillips, who so
strongly advocated this right of ladies
70 equal facilities with men, never
had q daughter, and the same
Anomaly existed here-most of the
men who were advocating this thing
here never had daughters, and at the rate
they are going they never will have" The
d. sker quoted from DR.. Clark, high
,ulbority upon the physical education Of
Somtu. Who denounced co-educstion as "a
rime sgainst God and man" There was
81 single instance, in any civilized coun-
~, OF cOeducstion upon the footing pro-
pUstd in the bill before the House-he ie6ed
ny one to show him an example Gentle
ueu in favor Of the bill had said the great
htughi Of the sge was in favor of this pro
Dad plan he denied it. and would dis.
1TOye IT, he would show that in every case
shere il now existed it was all experiment,
and in most instances
A MISERABLE FAILCRE.
In support Of this he read the following
letier from Julius Fl. Seelye, Of Amherst
College:
ii have written no recent paper on the
subject to which you REFER but AN con-
WINGED that the co-education Of the sexes in
our American colleges is unwise, and this,
not so much because | spprehend undesira-
ole moral results thsrefrom, bat because the
intellectual differences of the sexes require
for each 8 different college curriculum.
These intellectual differences are quite as
obSious as are those we term physical, and
are no more to the disparsgement Of either
sex han are the physical differences which
distinguish them, but as they are real and
inersdicsble, and Is, instead Of being weak
ensd they come more strongly out by educa-
ZION, q wise educator viii, after certain
stage, mark out quite diHerert courses of
study for the two sexes. A college course
which is made equally applicable for both
cannot furnish means for the highest deysl-
opmtnt of either"
This position Mr.. Lucas
PURTHUR cORRoBRATED
BY letters from Prof Elliott, President of
harvard, Prot Porter, of Harvard, quota.
ZION irom Herbert Spencer, and other emi
nstt 4 Gators snd thinkers he paid his