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

away with Paris. It was SID of her N
calamity but truthfully, "Betty's here
for business. though she has brains
enough to pick up an education as an
aside" Her outlook upon life, in other
words. is not exactly academic In
fact, Betty Carter could have told the
sage innocents, who undertook tC
operate university on a kindergarten
system, few truths in regard to the
nature of the babes in its care which
would have shocked them immeasuf
ably. The Dean of Waverley also coulo
have added materially to her evidence
but she remained noncommittal, be
hind his invariable smile. For If the
people of the state preferred coedu.
cation on this wide-open plan for theiI
sons and daughters-so be 1t. When
girl rashly shot herself-well, a GER
tain number Of girls must shoot them.
selves annually, in Difference to sta
tistical demands"
Although the book Is ON the whole
free from moralizing, the story being
left to point its own moral, Mrs
Keays does not resist the opportunity
to present her point of view regarding
university coeducation In a succinct
paragraph:
For of such was the freedom &C
corded to coeducated man and maid al
Waverley. To insinuate that danger
might inhere In such latitude of pro
pinquity would have been regarded al
casting slur upon the morals o.
American youth. and as a deplorablt
indication Of transatlantic loosenes.
of character. The importantly of SCI
might operate dangerously among peo
pies bound to be born with uncertain
virtue; 1t was otherwise in a lanf
where boys and girls were brought VI
upon those respectable ideals which
ignored the possibility in themselve,
of what should decently be classed a.
abnormal tendencies"
The story moves towards its china.
and the college boy emerging from eS
periences that led to utter mental col
lapse is obliged to answer to his adopt
ing mothers anxious question, Jack
have you been a good boy?" truthfully
mo Lady, | have not been good boy.
How the father was finally told tn
story of the sacrifice and the coeducat
ed boy goes into life further along a
least in moral development despite hi
experience at Waverley, that his sir
hal been at the same age-that is apar
from the question of education.
What prominent educators who hav,
read the book remark as insignificant
, is that one of the most promising o
/ all our women novelists who has livet
In a university town in the middl,
: west and absorbed its atmosphere
chaperoning just such gatherings o
young people as that at the Waiver
ley" club house where Betty Carte
Is first introduced to current litera
ture, should have gained such view,
as she regarding the effect of coedu
cation. Mrs. Keays. who now has son.
in Harvard, to whom "The Road t,
Damascus" is dedicated, does not be
lieve in segregated women's colleges
/ which she believes to be almost as OBJ
jectionable as the coeducation institu
tons. She Is now quietly studying the
results of the plan to separate men.
and women's colleges attached to tn,
same university as prevailing at Har
ward, Brown, Columbia and some 9th,
Institutions.
! This is the plan which Presiden
Hamilton appears to regard as newt
able for Tufts if the collegiate depart
ment of that institution is not to los,
all its men students. He does not re
fer to the alternative plan of limitin,
the number of young women, as at on
Californian university where not NOR
than 500 will be admitted, or at
New England university which ha
provided that it may take girls up t,
twenty per cent of it's total enroll
ment.