The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-07-06

l. the 80 line 20 10 drawn a. Chicaxo TINT
v-r-iiyf After ton wears enjoyment ~ is
spl-ndid privilege are sounrn To be -
aside IN an 'nnnsN- and -ubiectsi 20 all
th. h~umiha'iuu. which arr sndurct by tho
wpn.n - uthsr collsg.- where .coordlnais'
education prrvailsp Ihs~e ~. tbs things
against which tic people ~ this cnuntry
~nypaotiscd Mr Eocksfcllcr. that he en-.
srtits 20 thisi A Chicago paper had q ar
| toon. not long ago. f-prcs-ntine the Prrsi-
dent Of IA. university cpmins down q
str-t lin.d with hsndrome houses. the
owners q which werr wildly climbing
over the back fenc,s with their money
bags In 'hcir hands But President Harper
dU.s not own this uni diversity. though his
suc,s.s- ia lie mana cement has ts-n phe-
nomrnal MIR kockefeller docs not own
| u, although hs has bsen by far the largest
financial contributor II seems remarkable
that a man with the bradth ~ character
to found such an institution Tor the equal
| esiucatlun 81 the men and women % all
generations. could L. turned aid. from his
grNt purpJes To consult Ia this entering
wedge of Discrimination against one-half
81 'hose who were To rnclve its trneftH
When, a year or two ago, MN. Stanford
was said 70 have caused the dhrinir~al OF a
professor from the university which hears
her name. bncause his economic teachings
were obnoxious TO her, there was a universal
cutlery from the Pacific To the Atlantic.
II was held then, n u should b. now. hat
the-s' great etucational Institutions ar"
the sacred POSSESSION Of the whohs p-opl".
II Il were PROPOSED "a shut the boys up in
a quadrangle and give the girlr the frs,-
dom ~ III. entire university, indignation
would ~ at fever heat, hut there IN no DIFF
ference in the principal involved. The
eduCatlonal methods 81 two continents arr
al stake IN this question One 81 the grcat
est eNI-riments ever made has tsFn IN
progress AT Chicago University and II has
l-en watched by the educators 81 the world.
President HarJrr proposes to declare I'M.
a calamity nom which II will require a
generation TO recover, There should lie "A
quick and unanimous protest from every
newspaper and every man and woman oi
Influence.
President Harrrr's own university force
dn.s not approva ~ this congregation
II the woUs's students. II. government
Is of a triple naiure-thc Junior 'ouese
Faculty professors Of the first two years,
tho senate professors 81 the third ana
fourth years and the graduate schools.
and the Congregation, composed oi w.
TRUSTEES and chosen afnmnl, alumnt anu
professors The Junior Faculty vot" IN
The proposed measure stood ~ yeas, "
nays. hut Tr Harper threw out five names
on a t.chnicality and then himself CAV"
the cas- ing vo,e In favor 81 II. The on
gregation voted - Ia ! against -egregs-
ton BY this time the excitemYnt ran 80
high the senate adjourned without voting
Al This writ ing petitions against thlr re-
dictionary step ARE pouring IN ana uhe u''-
mate drci-lon " in doubt
President, Nicholas Murray Butler OF
Columbia University j. rather too oItifnistic
when he SAYS Why dtrcur- The obl'T,
issues The American people have settled
tho matter
There is, i, is true, no douh, that co.
education ultimately will prevail IN all
universities, even In the ancient strong
hold ~ Harvard, Yale, Princeton and W"
rest. hut Their. ara many indication hat
the question Is still a live issue. ana trat
the .'rlsgle II 10y no means end"i IN"
host ility ~ President Eliot ~ Harvard ts
well known His views are shared ny
Pr,-ldan, Hadl.y Of Yale. President {,
! STANLEY Hall of Clark University, which
| has reS~n'ly admitted women. would prefer
that thcv should t- aggregated. ana
| would not give 'hom the same kind OF an
education as mon rsceive President James
| 81 N. Northwestern. which has been CO.
educational Tor many years, very plainly
indicates his di~saprroval Numerous lees
| con-picuous examples might te given
II Dr Harvrr'- scheme should III carried
| out. II would undoubtedly u mad" a pre-
| 'ey' for similar aC,ion on the par OF "ther
| ins' %itutIons In not a single instance II
| an argument against coeducation, gwen
which offers siHsrien, ground for the pro-
| posed r.,rogr-ssi.e movement.
Tn" undergraduate u' me hasc,Ii'h"
! soy srr very largely upJ0~d 70 cosduca
ton and 4 j. highly probable that 'he ma
loriiy % them In every university would
-ote 20 abolish IL Oncc this atutud" Wa
.uipt-sad Ia H. due 20 n sort NJ sentimental
ideal q women which very young men
cherish and which wa shattered IN the
Cnl.y. girl II IL well understood now
howrycr, 'ha, /, - the woman's ideal ~
| man which IL destroyed, and hat Is what
| troubles the hov- 1t IA not very PHEASANT
| to have a glrl look straight through you,
| one - them aid to IA" ritter. We have
| our weaknesses. hut We prefer 90 keep them
,o ourselves Only a few days agn "A
| Michigan University junior In expressing
his dislike % co~sduCstion, Said W"
don't care n rap for Aunking' before the
other fellows, but IT. something awful
with a LOT - girls looking on The records
show that In many ClaS-- the scholarship
Il 10. girls Is higher than that 81 tn" hnNr.
and that they take a larger proportion ~
~" hunors. Add To this the restraint which
they "Nrrri-n over h th" colIeg"
huv regards ~ his pr-rngattves, ana ~"
fear that EVENTUALLY IN. women may Out
uumhrr the men. and IL IL not necessary
20 Xxx further Tor the cause ~ the UNDER
graduates opposition
Plainly the time has come when IN"
friends % coeducation must mas 'h'ir
forces. and resist tie enemies
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