The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-04-10
Paper Says Only Female Kif1-rati
Would Take Advantage Of
Opportunity.

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co-educational school.
Further. the article states that Il,
has been determined TO put q bill
through the Legislature next winter
along the lines OF the @Strode bill OF
; the last session. Professors Orlnonu
stone and Bruce T. Payne arc quoted
IS saying that there is no doubt about
the General Assembly adopting the
report OF the Educational Commissl H.
While President Alderman himself is
said 20 have made categorical state
n1ent hat the question Is practically
settled
quoting an alleged occurrence at
Washington State college u Jew days
age, when Goods were roughly han
| died, College Tories SAYS that .,he
respectable families Of yirg nix. would
such possible treatment b. send'nr
them TO a 'co-ordnatc school for NO
men"
Certain II viii BECOME Inv.
The article follows:
In the quiet Of the committee room
from which it will emerge as law at
the next session of the Virginia Legis-
lature in November, the CO educational
bill for the establishment Of a Co
ordinate woman's school at Virginia
is biding disclosure until the an
nouncement Of the completed project
brings an opposition, unavai!ing be-
cause too late. Letters from Richmond
graduates and inquiries among alumni
in & position TO know bring the GER
tain news that in less than a year the
Strobe bill will have become incxor-
ably fixed on the statute books and
the cause OF ed cation in Virginia
undone TO that extent. Investigations
nearer home substantiate these unau-
thentic reports. Professor Ormond
stone. Professor Bruce r. Payne and
a half-dozen moro members of the
faculty interested in the scheme say
positively that there is no doubt in
the world about the Legislature adopt
ing the favorable report of the Edu-
cational Commission. Finally. Presi-
dent Edwin a. Alderman a member of
this board, makes the evidence unim-
peachable by his categorical statement
that the question is practically set
tied.
Co-Ordinate Woman's School tD
1t is proposed by the Educational
Commission, and in this it seeks It's
whole justification, 10 give the female
students free access TO the university'S
educational utilities without making
Virginia coeducatlon, and in an IN
terview published in Topics SIX weeks
ago, Professor Stone declared that
even handed justice demanded the con-
ferring Of equal rights upon the wo-
men. This argument for greater eff
cinecy and economy by Capitalization
is the main plea of the Co coordinate
school" propagandsts, and precedent Is
cited to show that the plan is feasible
at Virginia At Oxford there are the
women's colleges Of Somervlle. Lady
Margaret and ST. HuGh's; Radcliffe
College is the better half of Harvard,
and Barnard of Columbia; The IL.
Sophie Ncwcomb Memorial College is
the women's school Of Tulane. and
the Western Reserve University or
Cleveland is said to be split into two
departments without any difficulty. 1t
is claimed that the coordinate school
places, and that the plan is feasible
at Virginia
If the attitude of the students at
this university Is sought By the CO.
ordinate school party. 1T will be found
that there is not man here but who
speaks Of the proposition with bitter
ness. and believes that Its Iulnlmcni
would destroy all Of the traditions anu
higher Ideals for which the University
OF Virginia has always stood. rhe
longer a man has been here, it has
been found. the more ardent is he in
his opposition Wherever the subject
Is brought up on the campus, angry
spirits begin to rise and coeducation
comes in for a severe arraignment.
An Academic DISTINCTION.
II is claimed by the student body to
a man and by a large majority OF the
alumni that the distinction between CO.
education and coordinate womans
school is distinction without a differ
ence. While the women would live
on the Frys Spring Road or at Ivy
or some other place apart from the
mems dormitories they would use the
lecture rooms, study under the same
professors, and rub elbows with the
men students going TO and from lee
ture. They would exert a delnoraliz-
ing influence upon the university by
their presence alone, for it is not be-
lieved for an instant that anything but
female riifraff would take advantage
OF the opportunity if offered. There
are too many refined scminaries in Nir-
ginia for the Gentlcr sex to need in
struction along with men. The Wiz
ginia man would have his own opin-
ion Of the woman with such a lack Of
modesty s to put herself on an equal
footing with men. free from all re.
striction. uHseXed into depreciation
Of womanhood BY the allurement OF
"woman's rights" Virginia students,
and the class Of men this term In
cludes, will not live as students side
by side with this dismal brood.
The obstinacy Of the student body
in this coeducat!on matter will make
Itself felt. as no advantages have
been made toward giving further IN
formation about this Ubiquitous bill.
there has been talk Of mass-meeting
for full discussion OF the subject.
Four years ago. Morgan p. Robinson
called mass meeting for the preser
walton of Virginia traditions It has
been suggested that the time is ripe
for another meeting of protest.
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