The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-02

women or they must be educated in the
same universities as men.
MI IS TOO late 20 consider the first Of these.
WIN OoOO women to-day In the institutions
VI HfheF learning the doors cannot be
There was a uuarter Of a century Of
n , argument, pro and con, before they
were admitted, and there will he wears Of
VouIoNersy as 70 what shall he done with
mem now that they are within, but mean
Iulle lhey viii 90 calmly on taking their
uesrees and making room for Others and
after while the clamor will cease.
ne reviewers Of President HaTpeT's
mtest DOCK, The Trend in Higher Educa-
llon, IN which he calls the university -the
prophet OF democracy" quote him "a say
ing that @coeduCation is a step forward
put one Of those steps which are taken
Hheh one Is feeling for a pathway In the
retraoed "
-. President Harper himself has at Chicago
University dealt cOeducation the hardest
bloW u over has received and has certainly
caused that institution to take a step back
Ward In unfolding the university az "A
prophet Of democracy he has in mind the
same kind Of democracy az the govern
nent Of the United States-one which in
us guarantee Of equal rights includes all
men and excludes all women-s mere
travesty Of democracy
The weight Of evidence Is all on the side
of ooeducation Aside from DR.. Harper
there are but two university presidents
VINO have had practical experience with
CoeGucatinn and speak against it-Edmund
j.. James Of Northwestern. at Evanston.
ILL.,, and g. Stanley Hall Of Clark, at Wor-
cestCr, Mass.
The former afterward hedged on his re-
marks until it was difficult to tell where
he Naliy did stand on the question. DR..
la seems to grow more and more narrow
IN ms views, and now It appears from his
recent utteTances that he Is opposed 70
giving women the higher education in any
way, with or without men
His title as university president really
gives his opinions more weight than they
are justly entitled TO, for Clark is entirely
post graduate institution and has con-
siderably less than hundred students
Into this, however, has the situation
resolved itself, that only these three out Of
the scores OF presidents OF coeduCational
universities in al parts Of the country
use their influence against coeducatlon,
but they have gone before the public in
such way as to focus attention and give
the impression Of an opposition which in
actually does not exist. From the presi-
dents OF Cornell, Michigan, Indiana, Hi
noi,, Wisconsin Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
hrasks, California, all large institutions,
with thousands of students where com
plete coeducatiOn has existed for thirty
years or more come only words Of APP
IIoNul VIII nOL even Suggestion OF
change.
Ninety-eight per cent. Of oil the high
schools are coaduCational. This Il true Of
nearly all the normal schools. The per.
Ceutage Of Increase in the coeduCational
colleges and universities from 1890 to 1900
was: Men, Is per cent; women, 1854 per
cent.
Until the amazing segregation of the
women students of Chicago University,
but one college which had adopted coedu-
cation had ever revoked il. This was Ade-
bert. in Cleveland. which In the hope Of
Increasing the number Of men, established
n separate college for women. That was
seventeen years ago and now they have q.
grand total Of 200 male students,
Wesleyan, a Methodist Episcopal col-
lege In Middletown, Conn, at tho vocif-
erous demands of the boys decreed
a few years ago that girls should never
exceed 20 per cent. OF the total number Of
students, and as there are only about 800
coeducation Ia reduced 70 a
minimum.
These two small institutions, the very
existence OF which Is known to but a limited
number, show the only break in the army
IF colleges and universities which have
made Coeducation an established and per-
feature. The masses OF the young
men Of the country are now being educated
In such institutions and no are the masses
Of the young women, and thus they will
continue 10 be for all time to come.
IDA Hustled HtRPFR.