New-York tribune., 1901-06-23

and Minnesota. The women I'm these nstitu-
tions are power in class politics. for one thing,
and that assures them great deal of tolerance.
They social equals from the fact thai their
dances and parties rival those which the men
give. They called college women by the
men Students and the Eastern titles coed" and
| hen" seldom heard. These Western college
women point with pride to potent evidence
| of their standing in the college community. This
is the number of marriages which follow cl csely
on graduation, and there is many a library in
new Western homes where two diplomas just
alike hang on the wall. The same state of things
exists at Stanford and at the University of Cali
fornia although at Stanford there is limit
the number of women who can attend at any
one time.
why is it that in Western colleges the feel
ing against co-education is so much less pro-
nounced than in the East?" asked of Cor
nell professor who has spent time in
Western university.
Perhaps it is due to the fact that Western
universities have been co-educational from the
start" he said. 'In the East the women have
been admitted after the college OF men had built
up years of tradition The Western know
no other college life than that in which the
coed figures. The Eastern student knows it
from old grads and from colleges like Prince
ton, where women unknown You hear little
about the coed at Harvard or Yale. This is
because they are few in number and. TO- the
most part doing advanced work They do not
become a part of the college life
Columbia and Barnard present rather pc
cular combination of the cO-educational and CO.
ordinate systems. The and women are
as far separated during the four years of thei-
college course as if the institutions tis-
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other. The two colleges. or rather the university
and the college which has been taken under its
wing have separate buildings and grounds.
The teachers are the same in many instances,
but the line of work followed differs IN many
particulars. In all this Barnard and Columbia
follow the coordinate plan. Even the various
social affairs of senior commencement week
are duplicated. The women have their class
day exercises as Well as the men and the Bar
nard seniors give dance which is just as de-
lightful as that given by the Columbia mon.
The feeling between the men and women stud
ents is friendly and invitations are freely inter-
changed. on commencement day, however the
men and women meet on the same stage as 10
the students Of co-educatonal colleges They
listen to the same graduating addresses. but for
their diplomas they go To the deans of their re-
spcctive colleges. The Barnard girls sheep
skin is like that Of the Columbia boys, except
for the additional line which says that it was
granted for studies in barnard College The
word coed is unknown. and there never has
been enough cashinE Of interests 10 necess-
tate the coinage + some term like 'co-o;d"
Columbia and Barnard have found the p-op"r
method Of teaching men ana women the higher
branches of learning" said girl who Was
graduated the other day. Il spent three years
in co-cducatioraI college in the Western part
Of the state and fought with the men half 4
the time They were mean that some Of the
girls We're perfectly miserable 1t wasn't that
they were selfish over the advantage which The
college offered but because we Were 100
thoroughly mixed up in their affairs Here We
have all the advantages. broadening influences
and everything else of a university for men.
without the Giscomforts which fall to the lot X
an Eastern coed"