Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-09-07
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
COLLEGE-sRED WOMEN.
CO-Education Has Proven Her Frau's In
teIlectuaI Equal.

tellectuaI Equal.
From every college where coeduca-
tion has been installed in England as
well as the United States. come reports
of the successful student work Of wom-
en- in the class of 1898 At a majority
of the institutions the year 1898 marks
the graduation of the first class Of WON
en- entered for the the full academical
course of study, 1t may be claimed
in regard to these "co-eds. that the
higher education Of women has now
been tried, and that from and after this
date the world viii perceive the fruits
or the blasted homes of the innovation.
Let us say at the outset that we be-
lieve the fruits are certain to come.
And vet il seems best not to expect too
much of the higher erudition impaired
to this sex during the first period of
its effect and influence. The college
bred man has not always proved that
he has a satisfactory reason for exist
ence. When he graduates he is often
thrown all at sea by contact with prac-
teal life, and from his utterances in
orations on graduation day it might in
many cases be concluded that he will
never get his bearings. He is indeed,
peculiar factor in our everyday life.
The world does not always know what
10 do with him.and often can not afford
TO let him do what he wants to.
Only the people who Judge very has
tily for anything but gradual results
from the higher education Of the aver
age woman. There must be an upbuild-
q
throughout the line OF life which pre-
SCENTS that average representative to rs,
and the resalt of so much inbred sta
bility Of character viii naturally pro-
duce its own effect in its own sphere.
That this leavcn is already working
within a calm, enlightened and con-
servative field in our life people some
times forget There have for some
years been several colleges in this
country where not only the degrees
which give rank in the scholastic world
are dealt ont "a women, but also the
secrets and treasures Of thought offered
by education. Nassar, Wellesley. smith
and "a half dozen other institutions have
given thousands of young women fin
ished classical Quotations Spectaclcs
and short hair are not typical of the
students at those colleges They are
after an education for the pleasure of
enjoying Is advantages, not solely for
the purpose Of becoming great thinkers.
But it has not been easy to compare
these women with college bred men.
and every bodg has demanded the conn
parison Enthusiasts have been I'M
able % thinl, IF any better way of tind-
ing whether the woman comes up 10
the men loeducation furnishes the
opportunity desired At Cambridge.
England, and at nearly an our Amer
lean institutions the refurmers have
seen woman placed right beside man
The newcomers have every where stood
the test admirably Ter women at
Cambridge University recently passed
for the mathematical tripos, two be
coming wranglers The enthusiasts all
say that this settles woman is equal
or superior % man intellectually and
in the fine tihers Of spirit as we'll
Not long ago Edmund Gosse stated
in a magazine article that all the
women of literature in all ages had
written everything ascribed to their
names in just one spirit by force of a
concentrated individuality He pointed
out that they had written well. but
that they had asserted themselves In
but "a single way al any time, which
was 10 suit themselves. If that is typ
zeal of the sex in other intellectual mat
tiers also we may still in spite OF the
trammels If prescribed work, look for