The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-23

In, we may a. well be fair and judicial.
The Barnard girls are a fair lot. / can
see that they are aggressive. They don
go around claiming everything within
sight; 1 believe they'd rather back dow
ON things that are really their rights. undel
up such public fuss as this. I don't hav,
anything to do with them, Just on genera
principles. HEAVIER deliver me from q
college girl But this swimming poo
business is all tommyrot, and the girls don
trail around the campus much They
are sort OF a nuisance over In the library
but | guess a library oughtn't to be shut
up inside college doors ANYWAY. Look
az Harvard. All Cambridge goes to their
hbrary-men, women, everybody and they
i9pe across the campus to get there, but
Harvard isn't paving the air. I'll tell
YOU one reaeon that women get on our
nerves here. We can't get away from
them. We haven't any college hall. You
Sec. none Of us live here at the college. and
we fellows haven't my hall for a gathering
place. We have 10 loaf around the library
or halls or class rooms in our idle hours
and we keep falling over girls. IL jars us
badly and We get prejudioed. II we had
a college hall whore we could barricadc
ourselves behind locked doors I believe
we could lot the girls roam the rest Of the
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a right to sanctumry; we've a right to u
college hall TINT we can b~arricade.'
Several other college men advanced
the same college hall theory. In fact,
the Idea seemed SO much in the air that
the reporter wondered vaguely whether
the swimming pool crusaders hadn't some
thlng up their sleeves, and whether all this
volcanic ebullition wasn't q clover prelude
70 a demand for something TO al a long
felt want. Later one Of the Columbia
teachers advanced the same theory.
However, some OF the boys arc I'M
doubtedly out simply and solely for gore.
They are ~virulent In their protests. They
say that Columbia Is more woman ridden
each day, that women fll all tho desirable
seats at the public lectures and the men
get poor seats or none at all. that women
flock 20 the library. get the reference books
and pass them along 20 long lines Of women
friends while the men may wait and that
women invade the campus more and more.
They insist that some radical measures
must be taken to stop their conquering
march or life at Columbia will not be worth
living. The swimming pool business is
an effort toward fertilization. The boys
believe II necessary to plant their first guns
before the gymnasium.
One young fellow expressed all thcse
sentiments in the fiery eloquence OF a class
themo the other day. The professor
didn't agree with him. He pointed out
that Libraries we're for the good Of man.
kind, the propagating OF knowledge. the
spreading OF culture. and hat II would
be a narrow and ,poor-spirited college that
would open its library only 10 it's own in
dividual students n refused its use to
other corporations, even though those
corporations were not, as is Barnard, cor
officially with the college. He also
out the fact that al the public
lectures, particularly the French and Ger
man lectures, in regard to which there is
most complaint, the crowd OF women was
for the most part composed OF outsiders,
women from downtown and absolutely
.Inconnected with Barnard.
The professors do not, as a class, appear
10 sympathize with the student indignation.
others of them wish there was no oonnec-
ion between the two institutions. They
that they quite understand the mems
TO having women mixed up with
heir college life. They say that the boys do
rave to put up with some irritating things.
For example, said one teacher, when
President Butler first presided at college
the place was simply filed with
women. The men who cared 10 get in
lad no show at all. That's all wrong.
such individual college exercises belong
the college men and they ought 10 nave
! right to say that no one else shall intrude.
don't believe the Barnard girls would re-
'ent their saying so. It's only fair 70 add
hat in that chapel crowd of women there
we're very few Barnard students. There
s no danger of more radical coeducation
here, and, while there may be irritating
Instance to justify the boys resentment,
believe the conditions are as fair and the
yirls' attitude as unobjectionable as pos
ible In any coeducational relationship,
however slight
DR.. Savage is surprised at the hornets
he has stirred up. He Ia also distressed
{ the embarrassing position In which his
action has placed the Barnard
iris.
He emphasizes the absolutely unofficial
Of the whole scheme and de-
lores the false construction put upon it
y a part Of the Columbia students.