The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-02
U EN- STUDENTS At YALE.
RESULTS or the First Five Years or tho Expert.
tupnf.

RESULTS or tho First Five Years or tho ExparI-
ment.
New HAVEN. Jan. 1.-Sincc the corporation
opened the graduate department of Yale to
women there has been a disposition to regard
the experiment doubtfully. After the first two
years there was n general decrease in feminine
attendance at lectures. and at the last CON-
mcncemente exercises a solitary woman appeared
upon the platform as n candidate for the doc
tors degree. in place of tho seven who presented
satisfactory theses the year before. In the re-
cent university catalogue, however, the women
students appear in greater numbers than ever
before, and their position at Yale may be re-
gardcd MS secure. There are now thirty.seven
enrolled, against twenty.eight last year, and
twenty-five the year before.
1t is now five years since the corporation
opened the graduate department of Yale to
women and admitted all female bachelors of
art rs candidates for tho doctors degree. The
interest then aroused has died away. and the
spectacle of women at the graduate and under.
graduate recitations has ceased to be n novelty.
Yale men a"e beginning to learn that tho change
is not SO radical rs they first supposed; that the
great bogie of cocducation is not to be feared. and
that the cherished spirit of the institution is not
threatened by an occasional feminine figure
fitting through the library or the refer
| cncc room. The few young women who have
quietly pursued their studies at Yale in
the last five years have had no perceptiblc in
nuehcc upon the Social nc OF Tue university.
They have attended 10 their classroom duties
simply. and their interest in the university has
been apparently confined to its intellectual adj
vantnges. They have unquestionably been con.
scious Of the somewhat hostile and derisive
attitude of the great student body; but as n rule
they have been women with n purpose, which
thoy have pursued unremittingly. They are
nearly all coilese graduates OF several years
standing. and have come to Yale simply to fit
themselves more crcd;tohlv for ,hoir vorl
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chlchy as teachers.
Women are frequently admitted to the under
Graduate recitotinns nv snocial orran,omont
Ill .ho ;as,nn"ta. IT. r.o -
WIN the instructor Inc larger huinpcr remain
at the university only short time. generally
not more than n ycor: but unlike the men thew
nsson.oa - -. 49,. IT. naa...a.-'
The NJ. A.. is given by the undergraduate. not
by the graduate faculty, and this fact rules the
women out. lhcy engage seriously In the
original research, which is the prime object of
SI""'aso 'sat a anu ! a "i In :.
three years work anu an acceptable thesis they
may receive the degree of PHI. ID. Yale is be-
oor,i,r str;rron, oyory ro,r In SIC roou;ro
NS
mchts Tor this highest degree ana only the most
Tbcrc iS it'll in ,bis state of thine
,,nti' - i"s ~ ms s'"to '"ins'
that savors OF coeducation, and the cor
poration had no idea five years ago OF trans.
forming Yale into n cocducational institution.
| The rraduate recruitment was Mt that time
rnderyoino CONTAMINATION and the cnrnorofinn
merely rCcopniZca the fact that n favorable on.
portuniiv was offered 10 take n step which il
had had undrr consideration for some time
Amcrjcgn women then had little chance for nd.
vnnced study on this side of the Atlantic. rho
ordinate c6ort mcnts or Tho cocdncationol in.
sstit",;nns u Il not offcr thc nroDcr ndvamtt"i,ns
and The opnOrtunitics ut :hc female colleges
were prartjcpIlv limited TO the bachelors dc.
grcc The New England universities had de.
ciincl 70 admit ,vor,cu IN thcir ,,rniuntr do
partnents, and tho result was that n large num.
ber NJ ,y,on,nn cvrrv wear fnrnd their q n into
thc German universities, in which they were
rnccivcd more cordially. The movement of the
Vale cornorotion was little more Than n putri-
otir invitotion 10 american women TO STAY at
home and pursue their studies in their home
10 Inc present time 40 have awaited Them
selves OF the opnor;nnitv. In ls91-93 there
wore twenty, in iso3-yI there wrrc tbirty.onc,
in lSOl-95 there were twenty-siX. in 1895 90
there were tvycnt..two. in ISo6- o7 here we're
twcnty.cight and ut present there are thirty.
seven cnroilod, or these nineteen have tnkon
sb y dnctnr's Ir,r,rco IN o IIsn1G' he txon,en Tia
not formally a1ncor at The commencement exer,
cises and receive their sheepskins from tho
th,t Wcar dcridct ia Institute n chnnye nnd
he made a their appcarance in Bnttcli ChaneI on an
oOnnnd ooxn n nd rarni;,,c5 mar a irlomns IN u
chp MN So" inn IL rav LIMA ,hoa rn%iiap,,sn os h n
undcTgraduntcs
"a c6mparison OF tho work ACCOMPLISHED nv
,,M M d"rino these Az" vcors Win TINT ne.
commiiisbsd hyt he mon 10 10 rInt IN Ne N" Il screSit M
tp y tnrncr The pnsi ene roe md snrccss mi
iGishh don rtmcrt nmdnr the II" d;rnCtIinn =, nr Prof prfF
s Cook. Prof iCnnk IcVotos a i NJ" shaUrc Of
hnS III " rno ~ H., M'nuHnn,,d o,n ychn ~ ri =" wo IL
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