The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1903-07-07
1t Will Give Women the Same
Opportunities as
Men.
GREAT WORK N THESOUIH
Chairman Sou'hgats Says it Will be Distinct
College Separate in its Government
and Other Details Of Admin
i~stration.

Southgate, president OF the Board OF Trus-
the following interesting facts concerning
the movement to build at Trinity a great
woman's college.
He said that for a number of years
Trinity College has been committed to
the work OF woman's education. This work
has been prosecuted in a limited way, but
the experience of the college has put the
authorities IN possession of information
which satisfies them as to the best course
TO be pursued and tins new movement Is
but a fuller development of what has been
going on. The executive committee met
last night and had before them the con
slderatlon OF plans to be placed before
the general board OF trustees. This com
mittee has only authority to take the mi
~tlative IN matters OF this kind. Final ac-
ton rests with the Board OF Trustees.
However, the executive committee
agreed on q plan OF organization" SAID
Mr.. Southgate, and while | am not au-
thorlzed 20 give the specific plan adopt
cd, nevertheless, | may say that the WO-
mans college Will be a distinct college.
NAh ~, bIoI II IL NC
kept separate in its government and other
details OF administration and discipline
from Trinity College.
1T Will not be located on the campus of
Trinity College," continued the speaker.
and While the faculty of Trinity College
vail be the faculty OF the woman's col
lege, the freshman, sophomore and junior
classes IN the woman's college viii have
all Rotations IN the academic building
OF the Woman's college. The professors
Will go TO them, they Will not go to the
professors, 50 there viii not be any inter
mlngllng IN the class rooms or halls Of
the two schools.
The woman's college will be under the
control and direction of the trustees of
Trinity, III fact, as [ understand it, it
Will be operated as a part of the CORPORA
ton of Trinity College, all official docu-
ments which may .equire a seal will
bear the seal of Trinity College and the
president OF Trinity College VIII be the
president OF the woman college, though
the details OF administration of the Wo-
mans college Will be under the direction
OF a dean chosen for that purpose, just
as the head master Of the high school
administers the detailed affairs Of that
institution.
The courses of study and entrance re
q~ulrements of the Woman'S college WI be
identical with those Of Trinity College, not
something like them or as good as they
are but the same. BY this method, with
some increase of the faculty of Trinity
College, we shall be able to conduct
the two colleges with one faculty and to
give to both all the advantages of our
endoWments and other equipments.
Our idea" said Mr.. Southgate, SIS
not co-education. As I understand it
TRINITY has never stood for o-education.
Hitherto It has been a college for men,
to Which women have been admitted, but
the course OF study and methods of work
, have all been arranged with reference to
men and not with reference to young Wo-
men and in this new movement co-educa-
ton Is not the idea, but the separate edu-
cation OF two classes of students, so that
the necessities of each class may be sup
pied without any possible Intolerance to
either. In short this Is an effort to put
at the disposal of the young women of
the South all the advantages of the equip
nents and endowments OF Trinity College.
The executive committee feels that such
advantages are due our young women.
Just why a young man should have q
million dollars to use as educational capt
tai and a young woman, probably his
sister, should be forced to use an invest
ment of only fifty thousand dollars is a
distinction that has all the appearances
OF willful injustice.
No sir said he, 'if the coming genera
ton Of mothers lack IN intellectual
strength and grasp and purpose, the com
ing generation OF men must be of a
weak type. We shall render the best
service to the future by deepening and
widening and strengthening the character
Of fho ~ ny n,C+Jor Wool nd tp1ynln1,-
motherhood will hardly raise a genera
ton of strong robust menhood"
Mr.. ~Southgate was asked If he knew
what was public sentiment in regard to this
new movement at Trinity. In reply he said
that he had not had the opportunity to
ascertain to any great extent, but as far
as he had been able to learn the idea was
welcomed with much enthusiasm. 1t Is tie
policy of Trinity College to do what Is
thought right and best tor Southern
youth and Southern life and not to be
governed by popular enthusiasm.
Il am sure said he, that no man be-
lieves in education would hesitate one mo-
ment to give to a movement Ink this en-
thuslastlc support. unless he chose to ar
ralgn himself against a movement to at
ford young women enlarged opportunity
When asked about the meeting of the
general board of trustees Mr.. Southgate
sand that 1t was his duty as president OF
the board to call this meeting. which he
would do at the earliest possible time. but
he had not yet determined a date for a
call meeting. Il believe" he said, that
the record of Trinity shows that she has
accomplished whatever she has undertaken
and IN this great enterprise Trinity Col
lege Will doubtless repeat her record and
Will become a blessing to thousands of
Southern women. Such an institution as
we purpose organizing viii attract patron
age from all parts of the South, for it will
; he the only one of its kline in the South
ern States"