Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-11-14

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More than 100000 children are
being coeducated In public schools,
and the enumerators at the time of
the last national census found that
nearly u per cent. of American col
lege students were In coeducational
institutions. Oberlin college opened it
doors to both men and women as far
back as 1888 and throughout the
length and breadth of the country
practically all the state universities
arc coeducational. Yet the rwosex
plan has been pretty frequently under
attack recently Some things the late
President Harper of Chicago univer-
sity had to say about it are we'll re-
membered.
Two more hard knocks have been
given to the system of imparting col
lege education to young men and
young women under the same roof
one by an eastern college president
whose experience has shown that men
students tend to disappear from the
department to which women are ad-
mitted; the other by one Of the most
brilliant of the women novelists OF
this university city, who in a book
which Is creating a sensation on ac-
count Of It's frank treatment OF social
problems due to conditions OF heredfty
and environment has occasion to paint
a somewhat unlovely picture OF the re-
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ern university.
The question of what to do with am
bilious young women seeking the
same advantages as their brothers
and cousins has been met In Cam
bridge by what IL known as the Rad.
cliff plan. and the woman's college
affiliated with Harvard has fourished
since the days when IL was the Har-
ward annex. though the attitude OF
the men students at the Oldest OF
American institutions of higher eJuca-
ton has always been like that of
freshman who when his father asked
him what were the sights of Cam.
bridge, replied. "The Radcliffe girls"
Whether, however, the broad problem
has been solved anywhere Is still re.
garded by practical educators as
doubtful.
There was consequently ripple OF
interest last month when President Il.
w. Hamilton of Tufts college, one OF
the larger educational institutions OF
the greater Boston. came out with a
declaration that the college of liberal
arts is likely Ia the near future TO
contain only women unless some
scheme for separate colleges can be
devised. The girls drive young fei-
lows away. Wcmen students began
to be admitted to Tufts fifteen years
ago. They compose nearly sc per
cent. OF this years entering class in
the college of liberal arts. President
Hamilton, without attacking the
higher education of women In which
he thoroughly believes, argues against
coeducation as applied to the eastern
institution of which he Is the head.
A more personal line of attack ap.
pear in novel, The Road to Damas-
Gus, written by Mrs. II. A. Mitchell
keays, a resident of the university
centre of one of the western states.
Mrs. Keays, one of whose earlier
stories handled the divorce question
with that utter frankness that the wo
mon novelists of today affect, has In
this latest book taken advantage of
an interesting study of the old an.
tithesis of heredity as against environ
ment TO have something to say Incl.
dentally regarding the social side OF
life In the colleges where both sexes
meet daily In class rooms and else
where. Her novel Is not distinctly "a
college story. II deals with the larger
aspects Of life as lived by men and
women in city of the middle west
Some OF its chapters, however. give
point to the words of member of
the medical faculty of Syracuse uni.
versity to the effect that other prob.
lens arising out of coeducation. how
ever serious they may be, are never
theless "a minor matter compared
with the lasting power to harm that
exists In student love and marriage.
II attacks the credulity of one not
born under the influence of Ameri.
can customs TO be told that these col
leges deliberately foster student mar
riages. which must also imply student
love. In one western college a day
is deliberately set apart during com.
mencement week for the announce
ment OF engagements between the
students"
Some such situation as this APP
pears TO exist at "Wayerley univer-
sity," the institution at which some OF
the action in Mrs. keay's book cent.
ers. Just which of the leading safe
universities of the west is intended
has already become something W "A
speculation among eastern readers OF
the book although n reference to a
two-tonothing football game played
between Waverley and the University
of Chicago might seem 70 give a clew.
A woman newly married to we'll.
TODD lawyer in n western city which
could be Detroit or Minneapolis or
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