The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-11

many women are more capable of doine
SO than great many men.
!. z. Women are physically able to bear
the continued strain of a college course,
and many are far better able to bear TX
than many men.
lost 3 t The a college woman has no more
coiiege man has lost the eternal man
w. IN the struggle for education.
bo =, college women, like college men,
become nome makers, nor their willing
ness ness to obey the second law Of nature,
the ne preservation of the species"
For fifty years the extension of educa-
Ilohal privileges to women has been a
concession to the plea for individual
[ 1 or women; the new question has
men. An impetus was undoubtedly given
~ ~, me new line Of thought when in 1898,
CJharIes w. L. Harris, commissioners Of
women students at college should con-
tllue 20 increase as rapidly in proportion
70 men students as they had done In the
past 1t would not be many years before
there would be more women than men in
our colleges. This fact evidently has
dr1ghtened the conservative and aroused
ton. The fact that girl graduates from
our grammar and high schools are con-
s1derably greater in number than boys,
and the even more significant fact that
men IN our nation now carry a larger per
cent OF fniteracy than women, may have
ADDED to the general alarm of conserva-
To my mind coeducation will suffer lit
Tie Tie from the present furry Of opposition.
The system is founded on claims too
broad, sound and progressive.
Welcome College Woman.
Invite the college woman to share In
the work Of the world according to her
1nclinations and her abilities, recognizing
her as a positive factor Of society, as In
the character Of her endowments we may
safely conclude nature intended her to be.
Then endow her with the ballot, that she
may have authority to force her opinions
and to do the work of her choice in the
most effective way. In the beginning the
gift of education to the people through
our public schools was not given in the
spirit OF philanthrophy, but was extended
IN order that our government might rest
upon an intelligent citizenship. Now that
a majority of the products Of the public
schools are girls, and preponderance Of
l1teracy OF the nation has been tipped to
the side of women; now that the interests
OF the women can no longer be confined
to the home, but are found upon the out
side as Well as the inside of that home,
the logician will have difficulty to find a
sound reason for believing much longer
that the government, well as the home,
the school and the church, may not be
safely trusted to the joint judgment OF
men and women.
Defects of NormaIs.
Defects in normal schools were dis
cussed at the meeting of the department
of normal schools. II. H Seerley, presi-
dent of the state normal school of Cedar
Falls, Iowa, outlined the following as the
defects that are most criticised by the
public
Normal schools make too little Of the
arship. The courses often narrow the
career and limit the efficiency of the stu
dent
Normal schools mack too little Of the
practical and too much Of theory and doc
trine.
They are usually conducted on too small
a. scale and are meagerly equipped and
cheaply maintained.
They are conducted on the one-man
idea instead Of the faculty idea.
They exaggerate the training school re-
suits beyond the possibility of accomplish
ment.