The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-22
WESLEYAN GIRLS COPIED H0N0RS
 AND ARE CUT OUT
Youths, Unable to Compete, Compel Abandonment of Go Education at Methodist Col lege
 Girls in This Years Glass Are Reduced to Nine and None Will be Taken When They Go

Midd1etown, Conn, Sept. 21.- All along the hay meadows in the
 early days of Fall
 Where the placid rivers flowing by
 the dingy college wall,
 Swan songs now the @tquaiT' are
 voicing to the mems folk great That the tquai1' will soon be done
 for once and all.
 The final year, save one, of cO-ed- ucation at wesleyan University open ed today. Nine young ladies' ffquails'' in the Wesleyan vernaeular- along with over four hundred men en- tered upon their work for the year, the eightieth in the Uniyersity's his tory.
 According, to resolution passed by the Board of Trustees a year and a half ago, 1913 was the last class that could contain women. However, at the opening of school last year none braved the conditions which beset the skirted seeker of education in Wes- 1eyan, and several women left for oth- CT colleges After graduation in June 1910, the total number of co-eds re- maining in the college was nine. Standing on the porch of the renown- ed Quail Roost'' their class day, the nine took an oath ''to stick togeth- CT to the finish"
 Today, when the chapel bell toI1ed it's first summons the young women were among those present. Four are juniors and five seniors. All hail from Connecticut, and seven from Middletown: Miss Katherine s. Bielby, Miss Margaret A. Dutting. Ruth Snow, Amy Sheldon, Helen c. Willis, Faith of Middletown; Miss Mary Neil, of Cromwell and Miss Theresa l.. Say, of Waterbury.
 The male student body do not re- gret the girls leaving. The ten sfquail'' graduates last commencement carried off all the highest scholastic honors; several making Phi Beta Kap- pa. whether there was any relation between this fact and the boycott of the girls by the men. the men will not admit. But the boycott, in recent very outset, freshmen were forbidden to have anything to do with the cot eds. under threat of dire punishment. boys dances A Wesleyan man would go to any extreme to avoid taking his coed c1assmate.
 Yet, there were some '.dear, dead days beyond recaH'' for the co-eds. That was before they made regu- lar business of Hcoppfng'' all the hon ors. In 1871 the first class of three co-eds was enthusiastically received.
 With the passing of time, it be- came apparent that Wesleyan was not growing in proportion to the other New England colleges. Besides the the exact date is not known but along III the nineties the policy of boycott to get rid of co-education was establish ed. It has come in for harsh treat ment by many publicists who sought MiddIetown for light on the problems of co-education. The trustees soon. took official cognizanee of the dissat- isfaction and adopted the resolution so much desired by the men.
 The year the ban was placed on co-education at Wesleyan the enter ing class of men jumped from 100 to 125. Today. the entering class will number 15o The upperclassmen of the university are naturally jubi1ant over these results, and point to the figures as a complete justffication Of their much criticised plan to 'get rid of the quails.''
 The girls dornitory has been con- yerted into dormitory for men. Soon, no more at Wesleyan,
 as-- will the lady student, Adept in all the wi1es,
 EIectrify each passing man with seven different. snfles! |