Evening journal., 1902-08-08

| East However viewed, as an economic
or social problem, as an influence in
home. society, church and State, no
movement of our wonderful last cen
tury can be ranked above this in the
scope and endurance OF its influence"
Our white women once had the
privilege Of joining this movement by
entering our State college, but they
we're cast out from our temple Of edu-
cation. and its doors are still closed
against bhem. Since the State College
for the colored people admits colored
women. IL must be assumed that the
authorities in education think a col
lege education a good thing for a black
woman. Might it not be a prQQer ques-
ton to ask why a college education is
not good for a white one; or why a
black woman is fit and white woman
! Is not fit for a college education?
Again, the larger part by far of the
teachers of our schools are women.
To say nothing of the great boon to
them as individuals and as teachers, and
to the whole State through their great
er efficiency as teachers, If they could
avail themselves of the benefits of a
college education, the short-sighted, in
fact suicidal character Of the present
policy of the college appears when we
reflect that these women teachers are
now comparatively cool or even indif-
ferent, if not hostile TO the college,
when a liberal policy toward them
could make them the friends and even
agents of the college in arousing in the
aLfIa,c,, Of f1,o Ctota a., fnfapocf In and
enthusiasm for the college. If even a
college "would have friends il must
show itself friendly"
Tho trustees should remember that
the money they have to spend for the
college is not theirs in fee simple, but
is a public fund, public trust belong
ing to the women as well as to the
men: and that before God and man
they have no right to let the children
Of the State suffer intellectual hunger
because they are nothing but women.
The trustees have no adequate excuse
to offer. The State placed about twen-
ty-fve thousand dollars in their hands
about a year and a half ago; they have
not even offered a crust for the intel
lectual hunger of the women. Such
/ Treatment as this should cause the
women of the State to use all their in
nuence and all their power to insure a
better treatment to their sisters of the
immediate future.
Mr. Peabody, treasurer Of the South
ern Educational Board. says that zone
of the most hopeful things about the
South which he has noted is the fa-
Irfiftfor ,,o,rr hofr,o cofovod f,t tl,o u OH
est education of women" And the
lack Of such facilities in Delaware is
the most hopeless thing in the life of
the State. Until the mothers of the
State can give intelligent help in di-
Erecting the education of their children,
the children and mothers alike, society,
business. and in fact the whole life of
the State must suffer deeply for the
lack of such guidance. as we'll as in
other ways
do not say that if the college goes
to Wilmington it will become coeduca-
tional-that I do not know, and do not
care to predict. | do believe, however,
that it will do something, in some prac-
teal way, for the education of women
Especially for the women teachers.
Nothing would seem to be more prob
able. however, than that If it remains
in Newark no hearty effort will be
made by it TO offer to the women of the
State the educational opportunities
which are now regarded in educational
communities. at least in the United
States. as their birthright. But tn,
practical impossibility OF doing fc
them. especially for the women teach.
ers, at Newark what may be done foi
them at Wilmington is illustrated by
my call OF two years ago for teachers
to study French and German, to which
five responded in Newark and eighty
J six. which was afterwards increased t
one hundred and sixteen in Whining
ton.
II the college goes TO Wilmington
Il will not be likely. at least for sons
years. that there will be dormitories
Where no dormitory system exists thu
= problem Of educating young men an,
= young women in the same institution il
comparatively simple. II this is no
b favored. there might be an annex, as a
. Harvard. or a teachers college. as a
= Columbia. Where the will to do 70
g the women exists. the way will b.
found. On the subject of the educa
ton of women President Angel, o
Michigan University, in a letter in mi
possession says: 1--WE have had nearl.
4 thirty years of coeducation and do no
e find that it lowers the intellectual
e standard or menaces the moral tone o
e the college. We have no dormitorie
r for women. If the town is nea
r enough to you and large enough, tn
= women may reside in private familie
P there as they do here. Instead of ther
: being objection to coeducation in a col
y lege because it is a State college, ther
o Is strong reason why women shoul
e be admitted to a college which is SUP
d lported by the taxes on women as we
" as on men. IL is not easy TO find an
i reason for denying the same privilege
IS OF education supported by taxation I
+ women that are granted to mcn."
1t Ex-President White. of Cornell, says
,e seFrho iuAico of the admission of Wome