Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-13
Trustees Vote TO Create
College for Women.
Medford Institution VIII Aban-
don Co.educaiion.
Change Begins With Fall Tsrm...
Two Separate Departments.

Medford, Mass, April 12.-By u vote
of the trustees of the institution today.
Tufts College ceased to be a co-educa-
tional institution. AS soon as the nec-
cssary changes can be made in the
charter of the institution, new col
lege, to be known as the jackson Col
lege for Women will be established.
Until the necessary charter can be
brought about, the women will be TAX
en- care of as a separate department
of Tufts College.
The action of the trustees was taken
at the close of a lengthy and interest
ing meeting at the college this after
noon, when the trustees adopted the
report of a committee that had been
appointed to investigate the question
of segregating the sexes and which
recommended that such segregation be
made.
The balance of the college year will
sec no change in existing conditions
at Tufts College. When the fall term
opens, however. the womens depart
ment will be in operation. and later u
separate college for women will be es-
tablished. This institution will have
separate offices and a separate facul-
ty, although it is expected that many
of the members of the teaching staff at
Tufts College will also belong to the
faculty of the Jackson College for Wo-
men.
President Frederick W. Hamilton of
Tufts College has been opposed to con-
Quoting the college as a co-educationa1
institution. although he has realized
that women should have equal educa-
tipnol aJvaptnyaS with mon
The committee which has been inves-
tigating the matter. in its report sub
mitted today decided that the interests
Of both sexes required segregation, and
that the segregation should take the
form of q separate college for women.
rather than denying the women admis-
sion to the institution. 1t is the con-
vlcticn of the committee that the change
should he full and complete; that the
women should have advantages equal to
those granted to the men and that they
not only should have a separate depart
ment but should have a separate insti-
tuition with separate offices and separate
faculty.
The committee reported that II was
convinced that class room exercises could
be treated to much better advantage il
sex segregation should be made real
ity. They expressed the opinion that
the women students select courses of
study for which they are naturally
adapted receiving high marks In such
courses to the disadvantage of the men
who are trying to attain general high
scholarship.
The committee, from its own observa-
ton and from conversation with students
and graduates of the college. think that
better results will be accomplished by
separating the sexes. This Is especially
work In the class rooms. the women
have been treated with respect and con-
sideration by the men and there has been
no hostility between the sexes. although
the men have looked upon the women
as alien to the college.
It is also declared by the committee
that the fact that Tufts College has been
a co-cducational institution for several
years has kept many parents from send
ing their sons and daughters to the
Medford institution. No definite state
ment was made us to how the buildings
would be divided to suit the approaching
conditions 1t Is believed. however, that
Some Of the present college buildings
will h. set apart for the exclusive use
Of the women, and that new buildings
will be erected at an early date.
At the present time there are about
$50 students in the undergraduate de-
partment at Tufts College, of whom a
third are women.