The Daily clarion., 1886-02-25
The Girls College Reply 10 Woo
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saw 90 day iu THf CLAEON of the
10Th, Wool Hats No. 4. ! have not
seen biz preceding articles.
] In the first place Wool Hat
assumes.that he represents the people
/ that the College aud al It's friends are
enemies ol the State In this be is
entirely mistaken The College was
established by the last Legislature, and
has now very large patronage; II is
+ very popular, aud more and more OF the
citizens are looking 10 it as the institu-
( tion IN which they desire 70 educate
their daughters. 'lbe fact that (3l2)
Ht6s hmdrcd aud ttceire girls are in the
College, and that other applications are
made daily, shows that the peopfe desire
the College II the people desire it,
why should Wool Hat resist the wilt Of
the people?
I 9 "Wool Hat" says "there was no
necessity for the establishment Of the
sp.called Industrial School ut Columbus.
But the last Legislature and the people
did not agree with Mr.. Wool Hat; they
established the College because they
knew there was a need for it, Wool
Hat thinks the lat Legislature was not
body Of wise mem Others think they
served the State with fidelity and that
the friends Of the act to establish the
College were. a. n rule, tie equals of
"Wool Hat in intelligence and
patriotism.
1 "Wool Hat says the College should
not have been established, because the
University and the A. & NJ. College had
been opened to girls. Wool Hat il one
Of those arbitrary men, one Of those
imperious men, who would say to the
people, If YOU do not accept co.educa-
ton you shan't have anything from the
State for the education Of your daugh.
ters. Gentlemen who have daughters
aud who pay their taxes will not allow
Wool Hat thus 10 dictate to them, ahd
require Them to send their daughters to a
school IN daily association with boys and
young men The great majority of the
people who have daughters, are opposed
to educating them in the colleges for
boys Many Of these honest citizens,
who are Just rs true to the States in.
terest as Wool Hat claims to be, believe
that il is but fair for the State to make
some provision for the education Of girls,
A property holder who has daughters
and no sons pays his taxes to afford an
opportunity for the education of his
neighbor's sons, and is coolly told by
Wool Hat that he must foot the bills for
the education of his daughters without
help from any quarter; this citizen can't
see the justice of this,
D. Wool Hat is acting as friend
OF the poor; he is very indignant
that only thirty-nino (30) of the
girls ia the Industrial College are com.
pellcd by necessity to work in order
to support themselves while they are
students, He doesn't see any good
in bringing good education within the
reach OF gids of moderate means; he
sneers because they are not more under
the.terrible necessity. So this is'the friend
of the people, who wishes them to be re-
duced to severe extremity, before they
can have IN education at low cost The
report of the President, from which he
gets the statement about MitgRiHc, also
states that the books Of the Secretary
show that ninety-four of the girls have
done more or less work to diminish
their expenses. This work is not paid
for by the funds of the State; no de
mand for money to pay for students
labor is made.
Here is Wool Hats statement of the
expenses of a student;
Average board, washing, etc paid
parents s......,.....,,...,..,.,..... 1862
Average music, charged extra,
paid by parents-...,....,,.,."... 800
Average appropriated by the
State ...,,..........,.... .a,.., 1910
Total per month. ...,. S3S.72
rrls. l.. .-.......1..lt