The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-07-27
DRIVES YOUNG MEN AWAY AN
Plays the Devil Generally With an In
stitutiOn-The Board Of Regents
Ofthe w. v. u. Have Made
GREAT MISTAKE IN ADMITTING
WOmen-They Have Ruined Our Uni.
versity-The Wheeling ''Regis-
ter, Tucker "PiOneer''
AND OTHER PROGRESSIVE PAPERS
Are Right-Here is Testimony that is
Conclusive Beyond Cavil.


ed to President Carroll Cutler, oil
Adelbert College, of Western Reserve
University, and appeared in the
Cleveland Leader pending the fight
over the question of excluding women
from that institution:
FROM PRESIDENT WARREN OF THE Bos-
TON UNIVERSITY.
Stronger testimony than / have
already borne it would be more diff
cult for me to pen, but my convic-
tions grow stronger and more deci-
ded every year. The only opponents
of CO education l have ever known
are persons who know nothing about
it practically, and whose difficulties
are all speculative and imaginary.
Men are more manly, and women
more womanly when educated in a
wholly human society than when ed
ucated in a half human one. 1t
would be great mistake for an in
stitution with the future possible
ties of your university to organize
as class institution If your uni
versity shall do it, some new one will
surely be established in your city on
the broader and truer basis. Sin
cerely yours, w. f. WARREN,
Boston University
}. b Colt, Professor of Mathe-
MATES at Boston University, says
As Professor Bawne said the other
day: II believe in education and
consider that there is no occasion
for speaking of co education" How
ever, there still are found those who
argue against the inevitable In my
department l have failed to find one
argument against education. In
all that pertains to conduct and gen
eral college life the evidence is IA
vorable. In the cultivation of a dill
igent, studious devotion to work, the
testimony must be counted on the
same side. AS to the ability for
mastering higher mathematics, have
more than once had ladies maintain
during the term, and prove on exam
nation, that they deserved as high
rank as the best young men. | think
this has been true in every class l
have had for two years. l am speak
ing now of Analytics, Calculus, Me
chanics and Theory of Equations.
No, / do not believe that DR.. Warren
is too enthusiastic. Until about two
years since there existed several rea-
sons tending to increase the attend
ance of young ladies and decrease
that of young men in our college OF
liberal arts. l have given the sub
ject considerable thought, and l dc
not consider that education, pei
sc, was one of these reasons. Look
ing at the four classes we now have
we see constant increase in the
proportion of young men. My ex-
perience as a student at Syracuse
supports the view l have expressed
above. / do not believe that any
young man worth educating will be
less manly by reason of four years
experience in testing his powers by
the side of those of earnest young
ladies; and, unless his tendencies are
perversely wrong, his estimation o.
the sex will be raised, and he will bt
better prepared to become husband
who will love his wife, having frs
respected her. If the above be al
tered simply to suit the sex, it will
correctly express my views as to in
fiuence upon young ladies. Posi-
tively,I pity the girl who spends foul
years of college life meeting only
those of her own sex. 1t is impossi
BILE that she become as well prepared
for any noble walk in life as sh,
would had she the experience gained
in regular college course, wher,
she would meet men as teachers ant
students. 1t is well for any educa
ted woman, before entering life as al
independent worker, or as the help
mate of some man, to know men ant
Ii
other way will she gain this as wei
as by four years of mental labor OIL
common basis. | trust Western
Reserve will not foolishly attempt t,
block the wheels Of inevitable pro
gress. Very sincerely yours,
J. b. Corr
A Il
UNIVERSITY.
He writes: My own opinion i
that all the good results we antici
pated, and some we did not antici
pate, have followed the admission o
young women. On the other hand
not one of the prophesied evils, I'm
less possibly some young men hav
imbibed prejudice against the uni
versity from the young women ant
so have gone elsewhere. This, o
course, we can hardly determine.
have never thought the admission o
women injured to any appreciate
extent even in this matter. Schol
arship has certainly not been in
jured in the slightest degree. Will
order has been improved. With Az
students last year there was not
case of disorder reported to the fac
ulty. Not single student wa
brought before us for any offenst
Still we are not by any means as len
lent as are many colleges; in fact, GU
faculty are Inclined to be rathe
mel CHESS on the whole. There hav
been no scandals. Hardly any nj