The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-04
BROWNS UPON CO-EDS
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
 PREPARING TO sEGREGATE.
Faculty Smarts Under Epithet of ssFemale seminary'-sundry Ro- mances in College Make New Idea Popular--Presence of Wo-
 men Tends to Drive
 the Men Away.

Chicago Chronicle.
 Prof. James Taft Hatfield. one ct the younger members of the faculty of the Northwestern University. has hatly an- nounced a radical departure in that insti- tuition. According to his statement segre- gation will be the policy of the Uunver- sity in the near future and the first step in that direction will be taken at the be- ginning of the fall term.
 ed one that mems club and commons would be established on the campus next fall Plans for a club house are being made and it Is the intention of the facul- ty to have the organization in operation with the return of the students for the winters work Prof Hatfield. who is one of the most liberal oG She younger mem bers of the facuvy, has the following to say in regard to the proposed departure:
 Just now the essential thing is to fight whenever possible the over-femin- zation of the University which the tn- creasing proportion Of women threatens. We are not anxious to shut the women out altogether, but we must find some way of regulating the proportion between the sexes. Chicago has tried segregation. As a first step in that direction North western will inaugurate students club and commons on the campus next fall.
 Other members of the faculty are not T field, yet there is an opinion prevalent that Prof. Hatfield Is voicing the real sentiment of the faculty and that change will come over what has so long been pointed out as a remarkably sue cessful co-eduoe tional institution. The idea Is not relished by the students to any great extent and those who have dig cussed the matter since the announce ment made by the faculty say the idea is repngnant to a majority of the stu dents.
 Club will be on L-oad Lines.
 The new club will be established on broad lines and will be the means, so it is averred, of bringing about social re- form among the students. Prof J. Scott Clark is chairman of the committee hay ing the matter in charge. As soon as 4unds are available a club house will be erected. but it may be necessary to begin the organization in rented quarters.
 An attempt will be made to centraiize college society and in way break up the alleged clannishness that follows the or ganization of Greek letter societies. The institution is blessed--or cursed, as the opinion runs-with twenty-two Greek let ter societies eleven of which are frater- mites and eleven sororities. These socie- ties, it is averred tend to a certain clan nishness and the cdltyalEankxEto break [ ahis down. .~-s-.-..-i
 The Greek letter societies are as fol- RDws: Sigma Chi. Phi4Y Kappa Sigma. Upsilon. Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma, Kap- pa, Kappa Gamma. Phi Delta Theta. Gamma Phi Beta. Alpha cho Omega, Delta Tau Delta, Zeta Phi Eta. Pi Beta .-A, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Delta Delta Delta, Omega Psi, Deru. Sigma Nu. Chi Omega and Delta Chi. Nearly every one of these organizations has a house by .N.-- .A -n. nity or sorority are very exclusive. Some attention is paid to a certain amount of mingling among the differ ent fraternities and Pan-Hellenic dances and parties are given throughout the year. but the members of ehe literary societies and all that portion of the stu dent body designated barbarians. because they are not connected with the Greek letter societies, are utterly ignored by the Greeks and they have very little in com mon except a tendency to cOmbative- ness.
 South American Raises Question.
 There have been many things occur ring in the University this year that would tend to make the idea oi segrega- tion welcome tD the faculty. There have been several romances of a more Or less sensational nature and several ineffec- tual woeings have also added their ef- feet toward making the segregation pop ular with the heads of the institution. It is said that Julian P. Murty, son of a South American ranch owner. was the last man to give segregation a boom.
 It seems that this young man, who has been a student in the University, is pos sessed of a tender heart and a passion ate nature. He has the Southern tenn perament and touch of Spanish blood, 60 that he is very susceptible to the wiles of the fair sex. During his stay in the