Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-01-24

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Hut the limit Is clearly being approach
cd. Not so long ago the mile record
was successfully broken by many Sec
onds ut u time; this year a great En-
glish runner. after several unsuccess-
full trials. beat the previous four-mile
record of 10 minutes 80 As seconds by
just two seconds. If the limit has not
been reached earlier. 1t Is because
tracks. training and paraphernalia of
sport have been gradually Improved
But the time IL well within sight when
the idea of ecord-breaking must be
given up. or else performances must
he measured bv fractions of time
smaller than n fifth of a second. and
by distances and heights reckOned i'm
less than quarters of an inch. The
prospect of running records won by
hundredths of u second. and weight.
throwing records determined by tri-
angulation and a jury Of mathematical
experts. is not nlluring to the imagina-
ton; yet to this complexion must we
come, unless we are willing to forego
the somewhat factitious joys of record
breaking. and to fall back upon the
more primitive satisfaction of merely
beating worthy opponent.
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twenty-five years ago any one who
had vcnturcd to predict that the young
women In cOeducational colleges would
come to outnumbcr the young men
would have been regarded as a poor
prophet: yet that condition promises
soon to be realized In many UNIVERSE
ties: for the number Of women stu
| dents increases faster than that of the
men. The changed conditions have
led IN some eases to repressive meas.
ures. College presidents find that the
young men are not attracted to an In
stitutiOn in which the women are
equal or superior In numbers to them.
selves. Athletics, no doubt, has some.
thing to do with this. but there IRE
other reasons. 1t has been found that
IN some colleges the girls show ten.
dency to mOnOpOlize certain groups of
studies. notably English literature. and
the boys come to look upon that part
Of the curriculum as girls studies
and to avoid II. which Is unfortunate
for both sexes. The social relations Of
the young men and the young women
ana particularly the housing. are also
u problem which becomes more difii
cult as the number Of students In
crenses. 4 successful solution involve,
large EXPENSE. aud few Of the State
universities. In which cocducntiOn 1,
most prominent. have great financia
resources. The discussion has led to .
number of experiments. In the Uni
versity of Chicago segregation" hui
been adopted. Women are still admit
ted as freely as men. and will receiv,
the same education. but under the con
dltiOns which render them students o
what IL almost % separate institution
In Leland Stanford University tn
number Of women II limited to thirty
five per cent OF the whole number o
students. Whatever may be the out
; come Of the discussion. the yOunl
women need not fear that the doors O
the temple Of learning will be close,
to them. They have shown too plain
~ that they want education. ana hav
demonstrated too Enthusiastically thei
, ability to get 1t on equal terms wit
their brothers. Conditions may
changed. but their opportunities wi
not he lcssencd.
, ~6A
y In Its annual review Of the statistic
=. OF suicides In the United States. til
D Chicago Tribune finds that they are II
). crcaslng much more rapidly than til
a gain In population warrants. The Il,
!. ures for the last few years are rs 10
+ lows:
T. Suicide
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