Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1907-11-16

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rather than Minerva, and were il the
frequent necessary outcome of coedu-
cation the future of the system would
certainly be in jeopardy. No univer-
sity can safely become a matrimonial
bureau nor yet a clearing house for
flirtations.
So that life at the University of
Michigan evidently isn't what life at
"Waverly." the fictitious university Of
''The Road to Damascus" is repre-
scented to be. For that isn't entirely
a healthful studious existence as Rich
arda. adopting mother and protective
angel of the waif. Jack Homfrey. finds
visiting him for the first time at the
university: although. truthfully. most
of the girls seem hurrying To and from
lecture rooms We're of the sort pre-
destined to the earning of bread and
butter When she remarks that she
hasn't seen a pretty one Jack tells her
freely that isn't any place for pretty
girls, and that queer things happen
now and then at Waverley.
why do they have coeducation
them" she asks namely.
THE devil is supposed to know"
said Jack. But | know this-that if
had a sister, she'd never come here"
The story of course. moves rapidly
through the events of a college course.
1t introduces a professor of philosophy
whose contempt for coeducation is ex-
coded only by his brutality of his ex-
pressed views regarding women and
whose power. large over all young men.
can hardly be anything but disasterous
to a highly sensitive and emotional
nature like Jack HOmfrey's. Then
there is a demure maiden. daughter of
a Presbyterian minister. and with a
temperament to cause among men
troubles OF the sort that have been fire.
quent in the history Of the race since
Helen Of Troy ran away with Paris II
was said of her ungallantly but truth
fully. "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 face. Betty
Carter could have told the sage inno-
cents, who undertook to operate a uni
versity on a kindergarten system. a
few truths in regard to the nature of
the babes in its care which would have
shocked them UNNECESSARILY. The Dean
Of Waverley also could have added
materially to her evidence but he re-
manned noncommital behind his in
variable smile. For If the people of the
state preferred coeducation on this
wide-open plan for their sons and dau-
ghters-so be it. When "a girl rashly
shot herself-well. a certain number
Of girls must shoot themselves annu-
ally. indifference to statistical de-
mands.''
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 pre-
sent her point of view regarding uni
versity coeducation in a succint para
graph:
For of such was the freedom ac-
corded to coeducated man and maid at
Waverley. To insinuate that danger
might inhcre in such latitude Of pro-
pinquity would have been regarded as
casting a slur upon the morals of
American youth. and as deplorable in
dication of a translantic loOseness of
character. The importantly of sex
might operate dangerously among peo-
Piles bound to born with uncertain vir-
tue; ii was otherwise in land where
boys and girls were brought up upon
those respectable ideals which ignored
the possibility in themselves of what
should decently be classed as abnormal
tendencies
The story moves towards its climax
and the college boy emerging from ex-
periences that led to utter mental col
lapse is obliged to answer to his adopt
ing mothers anxious question. Jack.
have you been good boy?" truthfully.
mo lady. have not been a good boy"
How the father was finally told the
story OF the sacrifice and the coeduca-
ted boy goes out into life further along
at least in moral development. despite
his sire had been at the same age
that is apart from the question of CO.
education. What prominent educators
who have read the book remark as
significant is that one of the most pro-
missing of all our women novelists who
has lived in a university town in the
middle west and absorbed its atmos-
phere. chaperoning just such gather
ines of young people as that at the
"Waverley' club house where Betty
Carter is first introduced to current
literature. should have gained such
views as she has regarding the effect
of coeducation. Mrs Keays. who now
has sons in Harvard. to whom THE
Road to Damascus" is dedicated. does
not believe in segregated women's col
leges, which she believes to be almost
as Objectionable as the coeducatiOn in
stitutions. She is now quietly study
ing the results of the plan of separate
mems and women's colleges attached
to the same university as prevailing at
Harvard. Brown. Columbia and some
other institutions.
This is the plan of the President
Hamilton appears to regard as newt
able for TUFTS if the collegiate depart
ment of that institution is not to lose
all its men students. He does not refer
to the alternative plan of limiting the
number of young women, as at one
Californian University where not more
than 500 will be admitted, or at New
England university which has provided
that it may take girls up to twenty
per cent of its total enrolment
WORKMANSHIP IN THE ARMY.
President Said to Have Borrowed His
From Jefferson Davis.