Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-06
HIGHER TRAINING or GIRLS.
Prest. Jordan Addresses Womem's
Clubs Convention on Subject.

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Los Angeles, May 5.-President Jor-
dams address dealt with the higher
training of young women. Discussing
that branch Of education, he said:
The subject OF the higher training OF
young women may resolve itself into
three questions;
1-Shall girl receive a college educa-
ton?
2-Shall she receive the same kind OF
a college education as a boy?
3-Shall she be educated in the same
college?
As to the first question; II must de-
pend on the character OF the girl. Pre-
cisely so with the boy. What we should
do with either depends on his or her
possibilities, No parent should let eth
er boy or girl enter life with any less
preparation than the best they can
give
The highest product Of social evolu-
ton is the growth Of the civilized home,
the home that only a wise, cultivated
and high minded woman can make To
furnish such women Is one of the
wotthiest functions OF higher education.
2-Shall we give our girls the same
education as our boys? Yes and no,
If we mean the same, an equal degree
Of breadth and thoroughness, an equal
fitness for high thinking and wise act
ing, yes let IL be the same. II we mean
this. Shall we reach this end by exact
ly the same course OF studies? then my
answer must be no. For the same
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results with different persons.
In the university Of today the larg-
est liberty OF choice in study is given
to the student. There are, Of course,
certain average differences between
men and women students. Women have
often greater sympathy or greater
readiness Of memory or apprehension.
greater fondness for technique. In the
languages and literature, often In
mathematics and history. they are
found TO excel They lack, on the
whole, originality They are not at
tracted by unsolved problems, and In
the inductive or In exact sciences they
seldom take the lead. The motor"
side Of their minds and natures is not
strongly developed They do not work
for results as much as for the pleasure
Of study
9-shall women be taught In the same
classes as men? This Is partly q mat
ter OF taste or personal preference. II
does no harm whatever 10 either men
or women TO meet those Of the other
sex I'm the same classrooms. Consider
able has been said for and against the
union in one institution OF technical
schools and schools OF liberal arts. But
| believe better men are made when the
two are brought more closely together.
II is not true that the character OF COL
lege work has been In any way lowered
by co-education. The reverse is decld-
edly the case,
There is no question that n reaction
has set In against co-education, The
number Of those who proclaim their UNI
| questioning faith is relatively fewer
| than would have been the case ten
| years ago. This change IN sentiment
Is not universal II win be nowhere rev.
| olutionary. Young women will not be
excluded from any institution where
| they are now welcomed. nor will the
| almost universal rule OF co-education
in state institutions be In any way
changed or reversed.
| The only serious new argument
against co-educatlon is that derived
from the fear OF the adoption by uni
versities OF woman's standards Of ART
and science rather than those OF men
the fear that amateurism would take
the place OF specialization IN our higher
education. Only men, broadly speaking
are capable OF objective studies Only
men can learn 10 face fact without
flinchlng unswaved bv feeling or pref.
erence. The reality with woman is the
way in which the fact affects her. Or
iginal investigation. creative art, IN,
"resolute facing Of the world as II is
all belong 20 mans world not az all e
that Of the average woman. That wo
men in college do az good work as IN,
men Is beyond question In the uni.
versity they do not, for this differenc,
exists. the rare exceptions only PROVING
the rule, that women excel In technique
men IN actual achievement. II instruc
ton through investigation is the rea
work OF the real university. then In IN,
real university the work NJ the mnst
gifted women Is only by-nlay. hna
question: Does not co-educatlon lead
20 marriage? Most certainly Il does
and this fact cannot be and need moi
he denied. The wonder is rather thai
there are not more OF such marriages