The sun., 1909-02-14
C0GDS NEARLY FROZEN OUT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, MAK,
BAR WOMEN STUDENTS. /, ,
For thirty Years the Men students Have
Enforced . Policy OF Isolsuoa-Tits
Women Have stood High IN schslss-
ship-Trustees to Decide Tnis MohuA.'

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Women Have stood nigh IN schslss.
shlp-Trustees TO Decide rnis MSdtA.
MDDLErowN, Conn. Feb. is.-Thers
will be meeting Of the board OF trustees
OF Wesleyan University before the epd
Of the month at which, 10 was announced
to-day. coeduoation will In all probability
be abolished
For the last thirty years, or practically
ever since the trustees decided TO admit
women TO the university. there has been
opposition to their presence from thu
male undergraduates. In the last few
years the feeling has been 30 stronG at.
times that the men have even voted bog
exclude the women from taking any
part In the various oommencement excr-
cises outside Of commencement itself.
Members Of the Wesleyan faculty have
also objected 70 the women studsntass
Last June Trustee Charles Smith st .
meeting Of the board introduced q reso-
luton providing that after the opsninG
of the college year Of IeOe-i0 no women
should be admitted to the university.
1t Is said that the sentiment OF the board
was In favor Of the resolution. but tfs
president of the board. Henry q. IA.
Ingraham, was abroad and cotton was dt5i
ferred until the semi-annusl meeting til
month : 10 ysfkt
Women first began 10 stady ~ sSaSi'
leysn In the early '7es. In erdN tAet ~ Z
women might not outnuinbef Stbsr f3o3
and thereby convert II into q womcnss
college the board voted TO limit the ntirn-
Der OF women each year TO one-fifth Of tho
entire undergraduate body. Webb Hail
was erected directly across the street
from the campus and the women -
dents who did not reside with theif
there, The dormitory was soon nick
named "Quails Roost" and the women
students referred TO as quails. "t, t.lue
From the start II was decided by the
undergraduates 10 ignore tho women
Once year the freshmen and the goods
meet at the freshman social given by the
First Methodist Church. 1t has become
the custom TO call a meeting Of the entire
student body on the day following, az
which the pain Of isolation OF the women
is broaChed to the freshmen with veiied
threats Of unpleasant oonsequenues ~
freezing out plan. Occasionally some
hafdheaded freshman has undertaken
TO take matters in his own hands and call
at Webb Hall on some coed, but the
punishment meted out quickly by ME
classmates has generally been OF q kind
that has preoluded any further attempt
on his part TO interfere with the working
of the isolation plan.
uniy when the men and wqnen met IN
the classroom were the ordinary cour-
teses exchanged. Stories Of the petty
annoy ances to which the women students
wore subjected BY the men have 80 q
last few years the nYnber q Nomen
entering has been gfaddeily dimt jsking
uBtu less than dozen new students have
ente'a,I eaol fall. t's.t-s y ..g.ts. ~. I'D
MY "a small proportions OF thce4 49, !.
hay" entered have stayed 10 nnssh tlef
college vour ne. preferrin after sncou1fery
ing ,,ls iroet here to tinish tbetr ve!teG3
cc, 1870 at scme more congenial Pt1S4 ;
Among those Who have ststuk " ~ II =
mal0ity have made Phi Beta katp4s e1s
hicl stand society OF the Nuty4y94S s.
by onefof the undergraduates rho (bq Z
that the women had alssoldttDyt uo<ehG &
to OcoEpv their m inds but thoif 9t11[HeItl y
sor ihe, were never distrnctsd ~ - 4ell
tentior Of their male oiasstnatesy y4y 49,
Nam Of the older rnemhets - ~
10 the abolishment Of coednoation.
plan has been outlined TO psqfy t1Q n
VINO nre stil anxious 70 give Won,
p!h iloges OF higher edstcetion 49,
4 haI Is the establishment OF geDayAe&t
college for women. 10 Ia urged ~ ,Aap-S
mort OF this plan that Conneotiont y bs-
hind other New England States in Offering
higher education to women While Mas
sachGsetts has half a dozen women's
colleges, Connecticut has none
II Is stated here that women graduates
from Wes!z-sn have been in great demand
all over the country as teachers. taking
precedence over graduates OF all the
other Eastern women's colleges .'g q