New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-07
VOMEN IN BROWN UNITERSITY
TO DE ADMITTED TO THE PRIVILEGES OF STUDY
AND OF RECEIVING DEGREES.

AND OF RECEIVING DEGREES.
Providence Aug. Cspecal.-Brown University
has the reputatlon OF being always ready TO adops
all feasible plans looking 10 improvements IN eau
cational methods, and helping forward the cause OF
good learning in IT'S corporation. While, as IN all
similar bodies. there have been men strongly con-
sentative and slow to make changes. there nave
been others who were disposed welcome any pro-
iect which would promote the best interests OF the
university. The question, Shall Brown open iS
doors for the admission OF ,womenl has been under
discussion with or less Of earnestness, Tor
several years. 1t had among the members OF the
corporation its very decided opponents, and II had
also ,ts warm advocates. As in the passage Of
time II was seen that some OF the best colleges In
this country had settled the woman question In the
affirmative the conclusion was reached that some
preliminary steps be taken which should be regardes
as tentative and experimental rather than as decdlns
upon a final course OF action. President Robinson. -
his annual reports for 1855 and 1887, recommended
tbe admission OF women into the university on the
same conditions young men, and that they recits
NJ different hours the rectatons TO be conducted by
such members OF the Faculty as might De dlsposeo
70 give instruction. No practical result followed
tho recommendation. and no reference was made BY
President Robinson to the matter for the next Two
v.ars Al the meeting in September 1853, Oh the
corn,raticn IL was recommended by President An
drews that the Faculty be requested 10 devise
scheme by which women might be admitted 10
college examinations and receive ceruncates OF pro-
gciency such a scheme was prepared ana ny
a vote q the corporation passed september - loSi'
rho university was authorized TO open all its ex'
ominations TO women. But no action was taken on
the matter OF comforting degrees. Ana YET, as F"
seemed no more than just that young lazy VINO
had successfully passed all the EXAMINATIONS WHICH
secured 70 one OF the other degree, 1t was decided
nj the last meeting OF the corporation held June ~
to confer all honors OF the university on women
worthy TO receive them.
4 SIN further step was taken In advance when
another vote passed admitting women VINO ho'a
BACHELORS degrees and To other women OF hperai
education. who may special permission 70
all post. graduate courses OF Instruction. Inc IN
strlction covers a very wide field, including courses
in philosophy In the classics In the Semitic languages
in rhetoric, the English language and English htera'
ture In history political and social Science Ill Inv
history and criticism OF the arts, In the GermaniS
and the Romance languages, In mathematics Ia
chemistry physics In zoology, geology ana potanS.
Provision has not yet been made Tor GYMS
w,men any classroom instruction in the rectAuou'
room on the college grounds The presenc" Oh any
considerable number OF this class OF students "ons
50 crowd these recationrooms a. To render them IL"
capable Of being occupied, simply because tiey are NOV
large enough New and separate quarters IN the I'M
mediate neisborhood Of the college grounds have been
secured and here the classes OF women will gather TO
receive instruction by themselves, tho courses being
In all rc.pects similar TO those given in the regular
cassrOoms of the university
The charges b ladies' in the graduate department
will be the same those Of the young men, and Will
cover tuition and general incidentals Tho whole
amount not including special laboratory fees. Will be
sla3 onethri payable nj the beginning OF each term
For these in the undergraduate department and taklno
lie usual fifteen hours a week Of classroom attend
ance and Instruction. the charges will be. exclusive Of
laboratory fees Sll2 80. The laboratory will
from necessity be pursued in the rooms tho college
grounds.
Professor Snow, who is the dean OF women's classes
informs your spondcnt that there some half .
dozen young ladies WHO VIII take up The studies OF ne
sophomore year mt tho opening of the term in the fall
twelve or thirteen and The entering class numbers
about the 1t be safe to predict that there
ranked rs students of Brown at the beginning Of tlA
new year, on september rs, 1892. President Andrews
says mat ihe womens department of the university
home Of lis own, eendowed and commodiols
o %sSs Ss by ii 10
carry ont MS plans. and make the college not an
~,, but part and parcel Of he university;
giving women students the full university status, ana
at the same time furnished. endowed and equipps4
As to offer them every facility for education physical
reach Of the male Students
should the 100000 he obtained, II Is proposed to
erect % suitable building two contiguous cr'> wond
be pre'erible) with ldtchen parlors dining Rotation,
exercise and debating halls and dormtory accyam ia:
IONS for fifty or seventy live occupants .,St OF
@Iooouo: The remainder would he sufficient for al
scholarship, and endowmens necessary ut the outset
from IRON me foregoing II viii be- that '0lt Brown
llia earnestly aud with thorough good WILL into the
me with some Of the best institutions Of learning. both
az home and abroad in ganting every
women can successfully compete with young men for
the cheerlly given testimony Of PresIdent Andrews
mat The examinntons ALREADY passed at Brown have
women taking them, proficiency averaging decidedly
above that Of the young men in college examined N