Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-21

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gHf: SECOND DAYS DEBATE
On tho CO-E,Iacation Bin-Its Fate
Trembling In the Balance.
The debate o. .eo-edaeation was resumed
in the House Of Delegates yesterday morn
ing BY Delegate White taking the iloor TO
conclude bis remarks Of the evening before.
The speaker said that Oberlin College, Ohio,
vas a 6ne example Of the Workings ofeo-
education. In that college greater effort
had been made to make the system sue
cess than anywhere else; and yet, ofthe 40
girls who had entered that college, but eight
had been able to keep up with the boys in
their studies, and the other l32 had been
phced in q separate building, with curri-
culum suited to their wants and physical
constitution. Wherever the attempt had
been made to make boys girls and men OF
women, that attempt had been failure With
all the zeal Of these 0berlin professors, they
had misersbly failed. With every means
and disposition at hand to make sue.
cess sure, if success were possible, they had
FOUND IT IMPOSSIBLE
to carry this theory into practical effect
He earnestly believed that this attempt 10
force co edueation on the University would
result in the ruin OF that institution. The
gentleman last night asserted that the oPpo-
nents Of co-edncation were hostile from
mere prejudice and assumption. The ma
iron Of 0berin College, who knew more
about the inner workings OF the system
than anybody else, said that she would
never allow her daughter, or any girl she
was interested in to 90 through the college,
and President Elliott had said her opinion
was The result Of ripe experience. The West
ern colleges had been pointed out as
bright examples of the result Of
eoedacation. gathering girls from far and
wide within their walls. If the catalogue OF
Of the Western coeducatonsl colleges we've
examined, it would be found that the girls
in those colleges were generally the resi-
dents ofthe togu in which the college was
located. thSd been asserted on the floor
Of The House that the South was adopting
eo-educstion. Almost every college which
had adopted ths system was college
for the education of colored youth. Hamp
ton college in Virginia, the University OF
Tennessee, the University OF Mississippi,
aud sll the rest of those mentioned, excep.
the University of Texas, were colored CO
educational institutions, and the University
of Texas, the only white college in the
South which had adopted the system, had
found it failure. The West hsd been cited
as adopting co-educstion. The University
Of Wisconsin had adopted the idea, given il
q fair trial, and abolished it as
UTTERLY PERxiGIoCs.
Ii had been asserted that the Church
universities had adopted coeducation. An
example was Wesley College, Ohio. Out d
ninety girls in that college, only four had at
tempted to take the college course, and the
other eighty,siX were in an annex, where
music and painting, snd the other little ele
gancies which adorn woman life were taught
Only four had attempted to make men Of
themselves. Let rs look at the university Of
Michigan. In the law department Of that
university there was one female student
God forbid that any child Of his should
aspire to be q female lswyer-a Belva Lock.
wood. Ten we're competing with men in
the higher literary Curriculum, and seventeen
were studying medicine, If West Tirginisns
wanted their daughters to be DIR. Mary
Walkers, send them TO the university il
If this system De adopted; if they wanted
them to he female lawyers, send them t0-the
university; If they wanted 10 have them com.
pete with men in all the high and difficult
spheres of life, send them 20 this university
but such course did not commend itself
to him.
Mr.. Powell followed in favor ofthe bill
He wanted to know If CO education was q
question Of bone, and muscle and flesh, and
If il was, should that question of bone and
muscle and flesh, stand between women and
the University. Ii was not 8 question OF
body. but one Of mind. The question was,
has a woman a mind capable of receiving
aud utilizing the studies of the University
II she had that mind, why should she be
pENIED ACCESS TO IHOsE STUDIES?
The Stste appropriated now $4,000 for
teachers, ard vet there was but eighty schol,
srs ct the institute. At four dollars per
month per scholar, with school nine months
in the year, that money should suffice, for
$50 pupils. and il was but Just to the tax,
PAYERS of the State that this large amount
Of money should not te paid out for nothing.
The females Of the State had right to en-
ter the doors Of the University and it should
not be denied them. The gentleman from
Ohio seemed to think that the only daty Of
woman Was % become a mother, aud that
therefore she had no need OF an education.
L was the very fhct that she was 10 be-
come 9 mother that made a good edu'
ton necessity. Many OF the children oil
our most brilliant statesmen had grown ur
brsiBlCss because the father had married an
uneduCsttd wife, The refining influence
of woman had been alluded to- TheI
needed that influence at Morgantown, were
even some Of the professors we're open &c
criticism. The gentleman from Ohio had
said he did not want his girls to be law
yers; the speaker did not want his boys tC
be lawyers, but honest, open-heaFted, stall
Wart farmers.
Mr.. MeWhorter spoke at some length il
regard to the effect. the passage Of the bill
would have on tie land grant from tha
government The opponents Of the meas
ure made a point on the dropping OF mill
tary tactics; the Board Of Regents had
dropped the President Of the institution.
dropped most Of the students, and dropped
pretty mach everything else. The fear
that the land grant would be forfeited did
rot amount to much, from the fact that hs
thought that grant had
ALREADG BEES FoErEITED.
In the afternoon Mr.. Lucas took the
floor, ard somewhat severely criticised the
remarks Of Mr.. Dean, delivered on Thurs.
day evening. He did not understand thal
gsntlemsn's illusions to the report Of the
Finance Committee, and he did not under
sfAEd bis personal reference to himself He
qpoled from the gentlemaR's speech the ~
mark that be DEAN had been treated &c
sn argument which was Ike The sdarkey'
drink containing "a little sugsr to makS
it sweet, q little lemon to make il sour, q
little water to make it weak, and q
little whisky 10 give IA power" i
the gentleman from CPshur conceived thai
the Speakers remarks we're made under the
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