Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-11-16
Going Backward.

CnlcaRO l HlSelelty has dUhNuOueu
the system of co-education of the sexes.
The men and women are 10 be sepa.
rated gradually until complete segre-
CATION is accomplished, the aim being
TO build up two affiliated universities,
one for women and the other for men.
A Woman's College of Philosophy Is
to be established. and the womens
dormitories, recitation rooms and halls
are to be entirely separated from those
of the men, and the two fractions OF
humanity will never meet in class, at
lectures, or at chapel meetings. They
may occasionally meet on the campus.
The object is, declares Dean McClin-
took, to secure privacy both to the
men aud women. Why then, may it
be asked, this exception of the campus );
and to be consistent, why not provide
woman teachers for the girls depart.
meut?
It is to be regretted that seemingly
experience has demonstrated the in
advisability of co education. Wheth-
er the test has been made under nor
NAL conditions, or otherwise, or wheth-
er there may not be some temporary
cause that has discouraged endeavor, it
will be difficult 10 convince thinking
people that co.education can not be
beneficial in all communities that are
not dominated by malign influences.
The ennobling influence of woman
has been demonstrated in all new
countries. In the mining camp, en-
tirely removed from all feminine in
fluence, and the lumber camps, to
some degree where the charms OF
home.life are OF necessity largely want
ing. show this effect upon men; their
indifference to personal appearance.
their rough manners, and At times I'M
couth language inevitably follow an
isolation OF the sexes.
Some Of our old settlers we're afford
ed notable opportunity for forming
an opinion upon co-education of boys
and girls, in the early history of our
town, by Bernard Cornelius, probably
the best educated teacher that ever
held the rod in the capital city, being
an F. r. S., Member of the College OF
Preceptors, London, and possessing
many college degrees, who taught here
in the middle Sos. His system was
different from any that had preceded
or which have followed it. The meth
cd he pursued was almost entirely by
oral instruction, as distinguished from
a reliance on textbooks. Friday Of.
ternoons, especially, were devoted to
consideration of some practical sub
ject adapted to the capacity of the pu.
pills by his plain way of illustration,
and use OF such auxiliaries in the way
Of demonstrating apparatus as could
then be procured. His social ethics
were as original as his methods of in
struction. He seated boy and girl
Of about the same age and equal adj
vancement at each desk, and with re-
markable tact managed to assert them
in manner that seemed satisfactory
to the desk.mates. The result was
that every pupil was OH his or hel
good behavior, and the classroom wat
. little world in miniature. The ordi
nary acts of civility were made thu
subject OF occasional discourse, anG
many men and women, in after life
owed their evidences of "good breed
ing" largely to their teachers axiom
attic precepts. The very few "blacl
sheep" developed were herded by them
selves and had no opportunity for con
tamination OF the band. Out OF the
membership Of we'll on to hundred
pupils, no better model school wat
eve. taught in this city, and the foun'
dation for a common.schoo education
was laid so deep and broad as to influ.
ence the after life of probably every
pupil.
Unless conditions are greatly differ.
ent from the ordinary trend of human
thought and incentive, the University
OF Chicago is making a great mistake
in abolition of co.education. 1t il
probable however, the faculty have the
best means for judging: but if so, the
unwelcome belief is forced upon us
that this is owing to another of those
unusual conditions that have made
Chicago the by.word OF reproach fol
much that is in conflict with the
stricter moral code.
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