The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-19
WANTED, A FIGHTING GIRL
MEN AT CORNELL WOULD GUST
THE GIRLS, WOULD THEY?
Well. the Alumni Are Aroused. aud When
They Find the Right Girl. aud They'll
Find Her. Sure, Maybe Something VIII
Happen TO Those Proud Young Men.

Fluu httHs SURF HulUt EOUItttIIIH WIN
Happen TO Those Proud Young Men.
II the male students Of Cornell University,
who the other day in the fulness OF their
springtime pride started what they were
pleased 10 call a formal campaign against
the goods, fancied they were going to nave
an easy walkover they may MS well be maxi
ing up their manly minds 10 be disappointed.
The goods. alhmne and undergraduates,
are going to fight. 'afoot. a-horse, and a.
automobile not only fight for the privi-
legas which are already theirs. but for that
particular privilege that has heretofore
been denied them. '''. "''
For the purpose OF gaining that denied
and therefore highly priced privilege the
members of thu Cornell Alumne Associa-
ton are at this identical homer on the
still hunt for q girl. Not just any sort OF
girl, but a very select aud belligerent speci-
men of the genus girl, To lie, acceptable
she must have good fighting blood In her
veins. a first class war record In her past,
and In her heart q seething determination
to study medicine, the entire course in that
particular branch Of Cornell University
now situate, lying and being in the city Of
New York. ia the State Of the same name.
II that girl IL found, and found she will
undoubtedly be, when the autumn time
comes around the aforementioned young
campaigners may find that their first con,
dition was more to be desired than their
last and be sorry that they ever spoke.
1t is bad enough TO beard a lion, but when
that lion is a girl lion and a coed it's best to
let her braid her own hair.
TIC be convinced of the seriousness of the
situation n has only 10 talk to a few Of the
many coed Cornell graduates now in New
| York. -
"The feeling against the goods is always
there, we always felt it, but this is the worst
that has ever happened The speaker was
Miss Nora Stanton Blatch, a granddaughter
OF Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Miss Batch
took her degree as civil engineer at Cornell
and is now in the employ Of the American
Bridge Company and the City Board Of
Water Supply.
Il was the only girl in the engineering
class. and the feeling against me was so
p~erceptible that at frat it made me uncom-
Portable she went on. Finally / thought
the matter over and decided that the trouble
lay within myself; that / was just the sort
OF girl that men didn't like to have around.
l was actually convinced that the objection
was TO me personally and that another girl
would be well received.
Il expected to find the same conditions in
the Office when l went TO work. Much. to
my surprise conditions were entirely diff
ferent.
while my work keeps me rubbing elbows
with men as closely as ! ever did at college.
| AVE never had the slightest discourtesy
TO complain Of. Now the difference can't
he within myself. | ant have changed so
much in two years.
Il attribute IL all TO the position taken by
the men at the head. The men at the head
Of my work let it be known that | came
there with their sanction.
If the men in command at Cornell sin
cerely favored coeducation. believed in
it as Ezra Cornell intended that all men
occupying the chairs should do, the little
undergraduates wouldn't take the position
they do and the goods would have an easier
life. At least that is the conclusion | have
arrived at, and ! have given the subject con-
siderable thought.
Don't you think it a peculiar condition
Of affairs that one OF the professors of q
university should get up at a meeting of
undergraduates in a drinking saloon and
put himself on record as being against the
very stone on which the university was
founded? Well, that Is what one professor
actually did.
IF he did not believe in coeducation. why
did he accept a chair at Cornell? The whole
world knows for what purpose Cornell was
founded. Why didn't he go to one OF the
universities where he wouldn't be troubled
with both sexes? II he has been convinced
by his experience in Ithaca that coeduca-
ton is not best, then let him resign and go
elsewhere, leaving his position for a man
who believes in ~coeducation.
what was said and done by the boys
can be excused on account Of their youth,
but when it comes TO a man as old as this
professor and with his experience that
won't do. To us who know conditions in
Ithaca it seems particularly remarkable.
1T was the goods that built up this
professors department. too. He has al
ways had mole girls than men. I suppose
now he is trying TO aatter the male students
in the hope OF getting more OF them into
his department.
Now that one professor has put himself
on record | do wish a few of the other
and President Sohurman would
come out and show their colors. While
President SchurTiaa pretends to be in favor
Of coeducation | know there are many /
girls who are sincere in their belief that |
his favor IL not more than lukewarm.
1T is pretty generally believed by the
giJls that conditions in Sage, the coed
dormitory. would be vastly improved il
President Schurman took mole interest Ia
us. OF course we may all be entirely wrong
in this. hut that is the feeling among the
goods, both the slumna. and the under
graduates.
in Ithaca we nave coeducation, and 10
will keep it for us we will continue
TO have il in spite Of this wonderful cam
whichthe male students have planned;
but here in New York at the medical college
don't get our rights. We are now look
for a girl who will he willing to make a
lest case OF IL.
we want a girl who il willing TO fight,
Of course we will fight behind her and, We
get her in, but we can do nothing
the girl.
sYou see the money for Cornell makes
( a ~coeducational institution without limit
o any particular college or branch. A girl
student wishing TO enter tine Cornell
Medical College has 10 take her first two
years up at Ithaca. Thu men medical
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