Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-02-20

is q slave. But in civilized lands. from 10
b c. TO the present Time, women had grad
ually been coming to the front as mans
equal. CC.edQeaii0n is. natural and
restrictive education ia unaatursl The
former followed the structure Of the
home, the family and society-it was the
natural order and the customary order 10
this country. What right had the State 10
educate It's boys, and eonsign its girls to
Ignorance? For the opponents OF co educa'
ton TO bring against it the opinions OF men
who had never seen il tried, was q ridiculous
as il would be for the Chinese 10 go TO the
Japanese to acquire information about rail-
roads.
The recess here INTERVIEWED
At 1880 o'clock the House reassembled,
and Mr.. Dean resumed he said co-educa-
ton was natural. Impartial and beneficial
Il existed in the common schools
ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES
in which three-iourth Of the people acquired
their education, and no complaint against
il had never been made. No disadvantage
had ever been discovered, and this was no
only the case in America, but in Europe "a
veil Therefore, as far as three fourths OF
the population of this country is concerned,
co-education Is q success II is only here
and there in city schools that an exception
can he found. And when step tGrthee
is taken, and the academies and high
schools are approached, very much the
same state of affairs is found. In l4l
cities and towns having population OF
less than 1900, which had reported on
this matter in response to governmental
enquiry, all had stated that co-educauou
Sss in actual progress and was a success,
and out of l9s cities having population OF
over 1900, III announced that coeduea-
ton was success, and only Is, of which 10
were in States having the greatest amount
OF ilhteracy, was coeducstion objected to.
All the normal schools in the United States
had coeducation, and yet these schoold
turned out the teachers who nodded the
growing thought of the country. With
these facts before them, on what grounds
could members base the opinion that CO.
education was wrong and a failure2 The
speaker thought the young lady who had
the pluck and ambition and vim to enter
upon collegiate course could
\ KECARE OF HERSELF
m University with young men. 1t had
been asserted over and over again, theore-
tically, that co education could not succeed.
| The trouble was, not with eo-education, but
with that small, but happily diminish
irg class of colleges which stood
out against progress and pinned their
faith 10 tradition and assumption. Seventy
Eve years ego, when Dean Smith first dared
10 take MP his pen on this subject, co-educa
ton might have been deemed an expert
ment, but not now.
Tie speaker then took up the subject
ec.education abroad. He had PERSONAL!
Axsuined nine Of the largest Universities
Europe, and could speak Of what he had
| zen. 1t had been conceded that the Uni
| yers,iies of Norway, Sweden and Denmark
eere co-eiucational. Switzerland also
nAd the same system, and likewise
ally. But it had been said that the
latter country had always been 80. n"
aLe who had watched Italy since l8GG
xnul say that. It was fact that Germau
| Universities had not co-educstion, but any
| 0ne Who had eonversed with the leaders OF
educarion in Germany could have any other
idea than that even in Germany there ev'
Isted .r
A STRONG AND GROWING SENTIMENT
! in favor of co-education. The speaker des
! rribtd the boisterous conduct and outras
| eous manners prevalent in the great Ger
man Universities, and said that nothiEg
hut the refining influence Of women
would alter those conditions. In Ger
MANY the man was the master and thu
woman, if not the slave, was at least the in
ierior of man. At any time, under the
shadow of Berlin, Leipsig, Strausburg,
Hiedleburg and Halle, could be seen from
| half dozen to two hundred women coming
INTO market hitched to one side of a cart
ropgue with dog upon the other. Such 8
country was not to be held up as an exam
| lie.
Passing to Scotland, be said that he ey
pecied, within the next ten years, to see the
four great universities of that country
Aberdeen, St. Johns, Glasgow and Edin-
iurgh-open their doors to admit women
upon the same footing as men. In Trinity
college, Dublin the speaker had found as
many ladies as gentlemen attending lee
.urts. Members had heard much about the
MISERABLE LITTLE ANNEX"
At Harvard, but that annex amounted to
more than the West Virginia University
yer would. Again, they had been told
bat only few colleges in the United States
Dad tried co-education, and that those
had found it a failure. This the
,veaker denied. He read long list
Of uon.sectarisn American universities and
colleges in which the system was in success,
tuI operation, and in addition to those, the
c urch colleges, BY an overwhelming N
.ority, believed in and prseticed co educA
! liun.
He then proceeded to consider co-educI
rinn at the State University, prefacing hi>
argument by saying that of the $4,000 boy,
and $4,000 girls in this State, all but an ia
tantissimal traction went to co-educationl
schools. What delegate could rise in HIS
seat and say that &C education had been
detrimental to the schools Of the Stat?
! The opponents of this system adhered to
step nv step up from the primary school to
he door Of the University, but there they
paused aud
! REID UP THEIR HANDS IN HORROR
at going farther. And upon what ground
upon g mere presum ption About S36l.
0C0 had been expended at the State Uni
versiiy since its establishment, aud bit
rintty.three young men had been grad /.
ated He protested, in the name Of the
people of the State, against grinding down
the women Of the State by limiting their ell
vocational facilities. he gave. list OF
studies of the West Virginia University, and
Of the Wheeling Female College, showing that
the whole course of studies in the latter
we're equal to only the Freshman class Of
The former. Unless the State made some
adequate provision for the education Of
women, they would continue to 60 to other
! States, and yearly take thousands of dollars
from eur people. Highly educated women
bad an effect on future generations The
mother should especially be highly edu-
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