Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-16

that about one-half of the graduates OF
this university, as of all universities, en-
ter business. The other half divide them
selves between law, medicine, the min
istry. journalism. editorship. engineering
and teaching. But 1t is also to be said,
and to be emphasized. that today many
men come to college who would not have
come fifty years ago. The college has
come to be recognized as an excellent
preparation for business. In the former
time only those who had some thought of
entering one of the three more commonly
recognized professions came to college.
Now the men who wish to enter any one
of the professions. outside of the minis
try law or medicine or who wish to go
into business do first come to college.
This tendency is thoroughly wholesome.
1t makes for the success of all CONNER
cial and Industrial affairs. not only in
their lighter. but in their deep relation
ships. For business becomes more and
more a matter Of sound judgment, and to
train the Judgment Is the great intellec-
| tual purpose Of the college.
As to Co-Education.
"Will the American University be CO.
educational and has co-education come
to stay?'
I'VE are coming to treat co-educaton
in more sensible way. II was formerly
thought that any one who did not favor
the education Of men with women and
Of women with men, was opposed to
what is called the progress of women
That prejudice has now passed away.
We have come to recognize that the sep
arate education of men. or oo-education.
or coordinate education, the forming OF
college for women and college for
men in the same university, are simply
methods which may be wise or unwise in
any special place or time The wisdom
or lack OF wisdom of the method depends
upon certain local conditions. i feel that,
on the whole, 1T Is wise for the state
university to be co-educational I also
think that ii is wise for many colleges to
be for women alone. and many also for
men alone Vassar College was organized
10 educate women. The trustees OF that
college would not think ii quite just to
change its force and conditions as to adj
NIT men. Yale College was organized to
educate men. 1t would not be quite right
for the trustees of Yale University so o
change its conditions and forces as to
admit women. There has also sprung up
in the last twenty-five years what have
called the coordinate system. OF that
typical condition Harvard and Radcliffe,
Columbia and Barnard. Brown and its
womens College. Tulane and Sophie
Newcomb College. and also Adelbert Col
lege of Western Reserve University. and
the College for Women of Western Re-
serve University. are the more outstand-
ing examples. For this method, as en-
|
speak in the heartiest way. 1t represents
a university atmosphere. 1t stands for
a relation of young men and young woin-
en-, based upon proper social conditions;
II enrolS as teachers great scholars; 1t
promotes education without entangling al
liances. In the relation of the students
of the two colleges seldom see anything
but that seems to me wise and fitting. I
like for our students to meet together;
they do meet together in a wholesome at
mosphere. One peril OF co-educatfon is
that Ii may become coo-education. James
Russell Lowell once said that he knew his
daughter was engaged because OF the
coo in her voice. I never hear II in the
voices of our girls or of our men here"
Has an Open Field.
What shall the educated woman do?"
she shall do anything she wants to
do. She shall marry II she wants to. and
the American college do want to marry,
and do marry. She shall become
librarian. a secretary. teacher. a nurse.
an author, or a reporter, or an editor. or
a lawyer or a doctor. or anything else
she wishes to become. She shall also
be daughter at home. q not unworthy
privilege. One can apply 10 her what
Charles Kingsley once said. with slight
change, Let her get ready her tool. God
will find her work."
what are the advantages OF western
universities over EASTERN"
The larger share Of the colleges Of the
east are personal or ecclesiastical foundA-
tions. In the eastern states the state uni.
versity has not assumed commanding
place. On the whole, the most command.