The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-09-21

came president OF MOUNT f1OlyOKe COlleSe
in 1900. In the autumn Of 1901 Miss Wool
ley visited the wonaen's colleges in con-
nection with the universities of England
and ScOtland.)
A sketch describing the opening Of
the University of Edinburgh to women
says: 'The almost universal extern
sion of university privileges to women
has been one of the most distinctive
notes of the last quarter-century."
The opening of opportunities for the
higher education of women has indeed
been a distinctive note in the history of
the last rs or so years, and every year
increases the number of those who
avail themselves Of these privileges.
The progress has been most marked in
the United States, and the increase in
numbers far greater thap in any other
country, an increase due in part to the
fact that so many institutions are open
to women and so many forms of edu
cation are possible. Coeducation, the
affiliated college and the separate
womans college offer a wide opportun-
ity for choice and each form has it's
peculiar advantages. The college affil-
lated with an old university has ac-
cess to it's accumulated treasures Of
libraries and equipments without the
necessity for coeducation, to which so
ject. The coeducational institution as
sures to it's students the best instruc-
ton of the university and the stimulus
which comes from contact with the
masculine minds and their different
points of view, and the separate wom-
ans college has the advantage of
more distinctive life and courses and
equipments planned especially for her.
The last form of college is an Amer
lean institution and has no counter
part in England. The Royal Holloway
college at Egham, Surrey, approaches
perhaps most nearly to the American
conception, in that it is not situated
in university town and has it's own
resident of lecturers, but it's work is
to prepare for the Oxford or the Uni
versity of London examinations and it
grants no degree Of it's own.
The first impression which the OBJ
server of the English system of higher
education for women receives is that
of the close utilization of the college
with the university. It is not strange
that Oxford and Cambridge are words
by which to conjure; with the intel
lectual prestige of centuries, with their
halo of famous names and great
achievements, it is easy to understand
the hold which they have and why it
is so difficult for the English to COM
prehend our system and the value of
the degree conferred by a college
standing alone and on its own merits.
An Englishman of wide knowledge
and Of marked intelligence, to whom
/ had described the location Of Mount
Holyoke college as very near Yale uni
versity and Smith and Amherst col
leges, observed: Il suppose, then, that
they all receive the Yale degree!"
There are certain advantages In the
university system. The college en-
tiers into rich heritage, and if culture
that of the university town is not to be
underestimate. Not only is there the
education which comes from contact
with men the fame Of whose learning
is worldwide, and from access to IL
braries, museums and laboratories
whose treasures have been accumulat-
ing for generations and even for cen
hut ole hot r,1,i oh So
very atmosphere Of the place. The
eye is charmed, the mind stimulated
and the imagination quickened by the
beauty Of the surroundings. Even
more powerful than the aesthetic and
artistic influences are those which
come from the memories of great men
and their achievements. England is
not slow to recognize and commemor-
ate heroism and genius, and the men,
DRY Of noble living and of high think
ing fingers in it's university halls as
an inspiration to the student life of
to-day, which still feels the touch of
the vanished hand and hears the
sound Of the voice that is still.
Into this rich Inheritance the wom-
ans college of England and Scotland
has entered. In Scotland three of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Aberdeen and
st. Andrew's-admit women on the CO.
educational basis; the fourth, Glasgow,
has woman's college, Queen Marga-
ret's, in afiliation. In England the
woman's college has developed in gen
eral from the amalgamation of "asso-
Citations providing lectures for women
and those providing halls Of residence
ior women attending the lectures"
The last quarter of a century has been
significant indeed in the development
Of this movement, for 1t is little more
than Is years since the ft4t small be-