New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-18
SCORES COEDUCATION.
DR.. Pan De Warker Sees Nothing
Good IN a "TzCO-Ser" College.

A perusal Of "Womans Unftness for Higher Co
education" by Ely de MARKER, NJ. D.. Commits
sioner of Schools. Syracuse CThe Grafton Press).
forces one 10 the conclusion that the title should
be reversed TO read: THE Unhtnsss OF Higher Co
education for Women" 1t is coeducaton-that
system of education which mas proved so popular
in the West-which is on trial at the hands OF Dr.
van de Warker, and not the involved variformed'
babbling. fascinating thing known as woman.
Coeducation is something the Commissioner OF
Schools in Syracuse has no use for. He hates H.
root and branch. 1t makes him tired He attacks
1t socially ACCIDENTALLY morally and HISTORICALLY
that is 10 say he attacks the rhetoric of some OF
the people who defend it with all the rhetoric at
his command.
Coeducation the author maintains. is the fruit
of the commercial spirit, and not necessary evo-
luton from the social necessities OF the American
people In the West, where the two-sex college
originated. and where it has chiefly thriven 1t was
the government grants. he says. and not the slow
accretion of public sentiment that fostered the CO.
educational movement. In the East, where colleges
were already endowed, or were aided by private
gifts. demand for it existed These grants ad-
mitted OF separate colleges for both sexes. but not
enough to found colleges and satisfy the greed of
the political CRATER" The author quotes Presi-
dent Jordan the effect that the West is filled
with a host OF so-called colleges, most of them
weak and doing poor work in poor ways. most Of
them coeducational, and most of whose students
are not of the college grade at all
In the East the commercial spirit has also been
the ruling one. Dr. van de Warker aftrms. only
here. to make matters worse. the woman suffrag-
lists have had a finger in the pie He cites the med
ical school of Johns Hopkins University and the
University OF Rochester having been handsomely
subsidized by women mostly feminine suffrag-
lists" And further on he says: The demand for
It (coeducaton) and the money which purchased for
4. & place came from the women who were exploit
ing the equal suffrage movement" Ann ArbOr is
also included among the institutions exploited in
this way by the suffragists.
But DR.. Van de MARKERS objections to CO.
education go deeper than this. He believes that
there are physiological and intellectual reasons
why women cannot satisfactorily be placed in com
petition In the classroom along with men: reasons
by such competition is and must always be
brutaIly unjust her. He quotes with force the
opinion of DR.. Edward II. Clark in his Sex in
Education" that men and women may study the
same books and attain equal results. but should
NOT follow the methods Mary can master
ba arr d@defrauded Of their rightfui attain
ments-if both are confined to the same methods,
Women who choose to do 50 can master the
humanitus and the mathematics, encounter the
of nbysics and the conflicts politics they
do II all in woman's way, not in mans way In all
their work they must respect their organization
and remain women, not strive TO be men, or they
will Ia e 9Dn sees oer IS md ND
largest attainment lie In the perfect development
ebo a1e be educated as men: wherein they are
women they should be educated as women. The
nhysioogical motto is educate a man for man
hood a woman for womanhood. both for humanity.
In this lies the hope Of TIE race aS2e.,,- .no
nbXsScaI and intellectual preparation life which
nSTed 10 his pesslmism when contemplating its
effect on her postgraduate life. He says
as are es5 e shown of them s6
c enter the Peacbin@ children in the prns s
schools. and until her egoism is toned down by
GntdT5 as we'll She is fitted for com
mercal work, because she has never 9eeh tansht
army OF unemP9Sed Dee ceeee Shirt from seek
tian.a q ne" soD'a''O'' :, .ao.n, :. ,..a,
From rsf TO or i isck Of nfoFmaon Even the
women women ereS women and it has been good
wears since college bred women h'tIe 1r IN V ~.
Spaf ns3orfty Of college bred did take up
teaching their ire "eTS one phenomenon that is
encouraging in the present statHS or is their VIII
nave snS their adapability in making or find
ing new occupations for themselves outsiar b %
R8son ffrniversity Wellesley and Smith among
those who have a1s Rg the ranks Of librarians
heads OF phianthropies and INSTITUTIONS, eaoe CTS
women and bookbinders The breaking away from
the academic traditions that mace ef ,eaycber has
S STeau marked and rapid during the last decade
College graduate was likely to do II was 10 JON me
great army OF unemployed 1 .ar sh 20 NOT
necs ner aunempioyed any than r. she
should mot h ss ye 20 natrony as Well One
Inc cheracteristics Of the woman graduate Is APT
m he strenuOuSness IN BOou
ienttng ca gerness in social enterprises her en-
thusiasrn for movements and causes. IL rs nan5
r1fsnomer TO call those uneT ploycd VINO spe,,.s1
most OF their time. II they are not necesarlS tn
eupnorters IN useful works or pupHc CI IL
nersonal kind College women everywhere wnelher
they have studied at two,sex or one.sea "a er3
form a nucleus for social settlements ana WoiH
ems clubs 10 mention only two OF me interests "
which they lend themselves -, a.. or.o,,rsa
which the true coeducatonal college permits ,a l
fosters 10 which the Syracuse commission lakro
the most violent exception. The notion that
ing together a lot of crude boys and girls
the sinner out Of young woman ana the rouEl.
ness out the young man.. as President Muit On
J,ufler has said strikes him preposterous. IN
the contrary IL is his experience that unoer lro
stimulus OF the girls, the young men grow NOR
up restrained and the girls more hoydenlsh II
tells a number Of anecdotes 20 show now pTtY !