Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-10
MARKED SUCCESS
Has Followed the Adoption of
Co-education.

In the University The New pepar-
ture Caused Little Opposition mt the
Time and the Splendid Success of the
Experiment Has Attracted Much at.
tenti0n.
A brief but pointed article by Prof.
w 2. Wiley in the November issue
OF the West Virginia School Journal
on 1.-THE University and Sex Preju-
dice, calls attention TO subject
which is perhaps not as much appre-
ciated by the public as it might be.
The new departure at the University
in the establishment OF eo-educatiOn
caused little comment at the time,
and the splendid success of the exper-
iment has excited still less comment.
This is due To the fact, doubtless,
that we are living in a somewhat more
advanced age than we were some
years ago, when sex prejudice would
have excited stroug protest against
the undertaking. This point is apt
ly commented on by Mr.. Wiley, who
says: Very little has been said about
it, yet one of the most prominent
mile posts in the recent advance OF
the State University ought to be in
scribed Abolition Of Sex Prejudice. =
Prof Wiley holds that the absence
of comment and congratulation may
be due on the part Of those response
bic for the result TO the same matter
OF fact feeling we have when new
day is ushered in ssIt is a great
phenomenon to see the sun arise every
morning and dispel the night, but
we are used to it and IL passes with
out comment He refers to the
time when women and men were di-
yided in church as the sheep are di-
yided from the goats, and when a
man would have been greatly embar-
raised to find that he had mistaken
his pew and sat down among the
women. "But If there is any board
OF trustees remaining of any church
which enforced such rule of division
they are the fellows who will now be
found sitting plaeidly among the
sisters in a matter-of-course way,
carefully refraining from any reference
by word or deed to the past
Concerning the mile post at the
University referred to, and which so
distinctly marks an advance step at
that progressive state institution, the
point is made that it was planted
without causing protest or creating
a commotion. such as might have
been expected some years ago. 1t
was done in such a simple manner
that, Notwithstanding its Importance
the new departure obliterating the
discrimination against women, which
had existed from the foundation Of
the University to that moment, was
made by the board at the simple re-
quest Of President Raymond.
The suggestion met with no objec-
ton. The old time arguments
against giving women equal educa-
tional advantages were not heard, nor
was it necessary for President Ray
mond to do more than make simple
which on his in
auguration day assumed the form of
an announcement that hereafter Il
woman would have the same rights
as a man at the University, IL she be-
haved herself"
In by-gone days this would have
caused a conflict as many another
change Of policy has done, but this
change was iaaugurated without
jar, and ''just as quietly" says Prof.
Wiley, 'sthe young women Of West
Virginia have been droppingin to their
places in the University and joining
hands with her young men, each in
spring the other and are preparing
to put our civilization on a higher
plane and consummate the mission of
the University to our whole popula-
tion." Prof Wiley, who is In a 20
sition to know, and has been close
observer Of the progress OF the Uni
versity, trnthfully says that theyoung
ladies' department. is already an in
spiration for good that is felt and ap-
preciated throughout all the ramifica-
tions of the institution in every de-
partment, and by every individual
within its precincts.