The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-17
WOMEN ano SOCIETY
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and to fks State DNuuOm0a0n0isOAUn1nae0Ui lowing from The Boston Traveller is therefore pertinent:
 Whether the decision that has re- gently been made at Wesleyan Univer. stty that, after the class of '09, women will no longer be admitted as students at the Middletown college, means that co-education is hehceforth to be on the wane, is a question in regard to which prominent Boston educators differ.
 Frederick w. Hamilton. President of Tufts College. and Miss Sarah Arnold. dean of Simmonds. are inclined to think l that co-education may have had it's | best days. -. >t William E. Huntin gton, President of Boston University, on the other hand, Is stanch supporter of co-education. and does not think there Is the slight est danger of It's becoming extant.
 President Huntington, though he had been confined to his home all day with slight illness. reused himself to de- fend the cause of co-education, which | Is evidently dear to his heart. | There may be some slight reaction- ary movement against co-educatton," he said. T have heard that something xpf the sort Is going on in the western colleges. as we'll as at Wesleyan, but 1 don't think co-education on the whole Is being defeated. 1t can't be. wo. not possibly be kept back permanent 1 1y."
 Calls 1t a shame. T don't see any especial reason why 1 men and women should be kept apart during just those years of their life. They aren't apart in the church. or the home or in business. or in the second ary schools. I don't exactly see why. when they get to college. the men monastery and the women in nunnery for four years. Do you9"
 I averred that didn't. and inquired if there were any feeling against the women among the men of Boston Uni versity, as the trustees of Wesleyan said there was among the men there.
 Not the slightest" said President mingle on terms of equality. and are l the greatest friends. The women are | elected to class offices. and have their share of class-day parts.
 "I have long heard of the conditions that existed at Wesleyan. and I know that this step would have to come soon CT or later. The men there treated the women like barbarfans. NJt Is shame"
 The trustees of Wesleyan University explained the mems dislike of the wo- men on the ground that the young wo- men carried off most of the prizes, which naturally irrftated the men, and that the men felt that the college would have more standing in athletics IT It were not co-educational. | As every one knows, Boston Univer- sity is not an athletic college. but Pres ident Huntington planes this to its To- cation rather than to the presence of the feminine sex. Normal Method CO-education. As to the women's carrying off most of the honors. which they do here as we'll as at Wesleyan. pr. Huntington does not think that the men want sto see the women out of the way on that account.
 Of course. we all wish that we had A larger proportion of men," he said. l '.The women themselves wish that. as well as the men. I should be glad to see the sexes about evenly divided my | self
 "Perhaps the women have driven the men away from B. U. I have thought if might be lack of an athletic held, or | the proximity of the older institutions 1 like Harvard and Yale, but 1t may be something to do with the women, too. One can't tell.
 | "However, we shall not put the wo- | men out. 1ou can put uO"h oS nv cidedly in favor of co-education. ''The Radcliffe Harvard plan would be well enough. only the women do not get the same sort of instruction as 1 the men and do not get their degrees from Harvard University.
 ''The women's colleges are apt to be weak because they have too large proportion of women in the faculty. think Wellesley is weak on that &C., Cp,ff tc hattar in that rd
 But the natural normal method is co-education, and I cannot think that any check 1t has received is more than temporary.
 Professor Hamilton's Views.
 President Hami1ton's great admira- tion. on the other hand. Is for the "or' ganization of the women. in a separate plant and under a woman as dean. but under the same general supervision and with the same professors as the men,"
 There comes a time in the life of every young man when he wants to live by himself among men," he said.
 So President Hamilton yesterday ex- plained the intense feeling at Wesley an and described the sentiment which he says to lesser degree exists among the men at Tufts.
 "I do not think" he went on, "that this feeling is caused by the fact that the women carry of the honors. To certain extent they do receive higher marks than the men. but think this is simply because the women. by the nature of the occupations for which they are preparing. as rule take courses in which it is easier to excel and because the men bear the brunt of the college undertakings beside at- tending to their studies
 'No I think the sentiment against women is almost wholly due to that desire to be by themselves which young men feel at that age. The women feel 1t. too. although to a lesser degree.
 "Each sex Is conscious of appearing at a disadvantage in the subjects in which the other shines. For instance, women will often hesitate to recIte or ask questions in class fin physics or asks them why, they say 1t is because the men will laugh at them for not knowing all about 1t. It is the same with men in the courses in which wo- men excel"
 President Hamilton does not think the women have affected the athletic standing of Tufts, except in so far as they have driven men away from the college. which I am very sorry to say they have done to some extent" he added.
 There's one thing. though. that the presence of girls at the college has done," conceded this opponent of CO., education. They have had a great civilizing effect upon the mon of the college. They have made the men dress better By better do not mean more expensive. but with more tidi-