Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-14
TOO MANY co-EDs.
President AnseII Says Men Arc Being
Driven to Technical Study.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Sept. 14.-Fear
that the universities which admit Wo-
men students soon are to be overrun
with co-eds that the men will be driv-
en- from the opportunity of obtaining
liberal education was expressed by
President Angel Of the University of
Michigan in his annual report which
he presented to the board of regents
yesterday.
Certainly" he says, zone cannot be
blind to the fact that at present the
aggregate number of women, nearly
all purxling the course in arts, is so
rapidly Increasing that the question is
suggested whether the old-fashioned
liberal training is largely to be mo-
nopolized by them"
The men, DR.. Angel declares, are
being driven into the technical and
professional schools. while the women
as rule devote their attention to the
college of liberal arts. In the univer-
sity last year there were ZIG women
students, against 694 for the year
previous. In addition Ill attended the
sessions of the summer school.
College graft also came in for share
of the presidents attention. He de-
clared that there is a tendency toward
dishonesty in some quarters within the
university, and told of the work being
done to eradicate it.
"I regret to say that vicious GUS
tom not unknown in the business world,
has been edging it's way into this uni
yersity and into other colleges and
universities" he said. ut is what is
popularity known as graft Officers
of various kinds of student organiza-
tions which expend money for some
object have been tempted to make con-
tracts on terms which allow them Sc
cretly to pocket a commission. 1t is
lust but lamentable to say that some
business houses and lecture commit
tees, in certain causes, have approach
ed there officers with corrupt PROPOSE
tions, which have BEEN accepted.
1.-THE university senate has deemed
1T wise to subject the financial action
of certain student organizations for
time to supervision of committee.
To permit the graft would be to en-
courage the very spirit which has peeh
.poisoning municipal and corporate ad-
ministrators in so many ways"
Defends Athletics.
vigorous defense of college athlet-
les, coupled with an argument for pur-
ity in sport, was included in the presl-
dents report.
.Some of the criticisms assume that
the colleges are more given over to the
passion for games than is the public
generally" he said. "On the contrary,
it is in large part the passion of the
people for interesting games that slim
ulates the students to play them.
When we read of thirty or forty thou
sand persons wishing to enter collegi-
ate foot ball games at Cambridge or
New York, and most Of them persons
Of responsibility and intelligence and
maturity; when we see that journals
of the highest character devote al
least a whole page to the report CT a
game and publish the portraits and
biographies of the players as heroes or
whom readers must desire to hear,
may we not truthfully say that the
public is as crazy about foot ball as
the students and that the passion OF
the latter is only part Of the national
passion which has taken possession OF
the country? .