The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-04-07

why SHOULD Not the Proposed Methodist
Female University he Co-ordi oated with
Trinity College THE Question from "a"
Economical Aspect-uow the Plan Has
Worked in other States.
"What do you think of the move for a
Methodist female university?' . asked a
GLohE man Of President Crowell, of
Trinity college.
lie discussed the suhj@c,, saying in
Substance:
A woman's college for Durham con-
necttd with Trinity college is the best
thing to do, if Motholism in North Car
oina is going to increase her facilities
for the higher education Of women.
Co ordinate educntinn is distinguished
from CO edoca'ion in this respect: The
former provides for separate Institutions
in the same town, that is, two co ortinate
colleges, one for young men, another for
young women, each under different gov
ernment internally, but externally con-
neCted into one system, 50 that, to a great
extent, the expensive equipments and
high priced faculty Of the one could be
used for instruction cf the matriculates
of both institutions This is the only
way to put and keep the higher education
of women on level with that Of young
men. With rare exceptions, efforts on any
other plan have proved unsuccessful in
quantity, if not in quality, of results pro
duced in the education Of women.
This could be done at Durham with an
annual saving of at least $4,000 on fac
ulty alone and with the advantage OF an
original outlay of $500 900 already made
for any institution which might be co.
ordnated with Trinity in this way.
1t is utterly out of the question to edu.
cate young women as well as young men
are being educated, unless the same ad
vantages in means and methods are of.
fered and actually given. An unen-
dowed institution cannot do the same
dowed one can do. If therefore ve wish
to take step forward, and not repeat
the same mistake of multiplying unen.
dowed institutions for women Method
ism, simply by the erection OF Woman's
college in Durham, may put that proposed
equipment of libraries, laboratories, en-
dowment, public interest and fall fac
ulty which Trinity college has already
secured and must maintain and add t
from time to time. The Young Ladies
College, of Nashville, Tenn is doing
this in part in its relations with Wander
bilt, the WOman's College, of Baltimore
has similar relations and the Wo
mans College, of Western Reserve Uni
versity, Cleveland, o., carries out thi.
programme still more completely, not tc
mention the college for women belong
ing to Tulane University and Ratcliffe
College recently absorbed into Harvard
University
Methodism will make strategic mis-
take ii she scatters her higher institu.
tions about wherever enough enthusiasm
ooos up to brild building or an aspi
ring and noble man has friends enough
TO get together ead offer place TO him
There have been many such edu, ,.,ions
booms. We must look farther than that
must make . wider survey aud we shal
that the policy certain 10 prevail il
higher education of our young men an,
women must seek to CO ordinate ou
material resources TO get the best result
both financially aud educational con
sidered, for the given outlay for exam
pie, to spend $4,000 for the highe
educational of girls in Durham in tn
way of a building, CO ordinated thu
with Trinity college, would be fully III,
equal of $4,000 spent anywhere els
where there Is no established and eouip
ped institution with which co-ordinat
relations could be assumed. If, there