The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-27
Committee Ends Public
Hearings and Will Sit
in Judgment.
HOSTILE FEELING
MELTED BY SPEECH
DR.. Alderman Explains What
Constitutes True Coordinate
Education, and Regrets Bit
terness Occasioned Among
Friends and Alumni of
University Over Bill.

AS a net result of the last public
hearing on the question Of establishing
coordinate college for women at tho
University OF Virginia. the rift be.
tween the warning factions stands no
ticeably lessened, with tho possibility
of an adjustment of their differences
on basis cmbodying to a certain ex-
tent the Ideas of both sides. at leas,
within the range of probability. The
important speakers before tho Senate
Committee on Public Institutions ano
Educat ton last night showed a decided
tendency to give considerati ton to the
objections raised by the opposition, and
raised hopes that what mas developed
into bitterly contested question now
bids fair to proceed to an equitable
solution.
The spirit OF relentless hostility
melted when President Alderman, in
a speech marked by deep feeling and
tempered with deep concern over tho
division that the question has occa-
stoned among friends and alumni told
what In his opinion constitutes tue
coordinate education and what added
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the University OF Virginia in taking
the step under discussion. His speech
carried conviction and placed the op-
posing faction at once on the defen-
sive.
VIII Report TUESDAY.
Inc committee. owing to the Lutte
ness of the hour, voted TO adjourn
without going into executive session
to take action on the bill The pub
lie hearings were declared ended, and
when tho committee meets next Tues
day It will discuss the measure and
report it's findings to the Senate.
Speculation as to the committees
probable action took many forms The
preponderance of opinion was 10 the
effect that it will rcp,r. tho hill favor
ably with minor amendments Others
inclined to the belief that while a
bare majority of the committee is in
favor of the BILL questions of tinan-
cial nature will operate to make them
recommend that action in the matter
tie held over for the next Legislature
Defines Co-ordlnatc Educution.
Prefacing his address with an eX-
preston of regret that the question
had given rise 20 so much pain and
controversy between friends equally
loyal 10 the university, and that he
was thus compelled to take stand
which must TO some degree be at va
rlancc with the opinion of many OF the
L.. al
addressed himself to an elaborate defl-
milton of Co ordinate education. 1t was
the term around which clashcd the Wild
est difference of opinion in the recent
controversy. and the one which most
needed full explanation. At the morn
Ing meeting the hope was expressed by
Eppa Hunton. Jr., the leader OF the
antis, that Dr. Alderman would at tho
evening hearing. state fully to the
committee just what he regarded as
true coordinate education
The coordinate woman's college nj
the University of Virginia, il it is
constructed i'll accordance with Dr.
Alderman's description, Will be located
at some distance from the university
buildinGs-not less than a quarter OF
mile away, and not more than a mile
1t will have d separate and distinct
existence.
Separate buildings.
The woman's college will have com
pletc plant of its own, including, bes des
the dormitories. such academic build
ings as lecture halls. recitation halls,
society and club rooms. dining halls
and gymna stun. II will have its own
corps of teachers and officers, and in
every way, except in such respects as
in The opinion OF tho officers of the uni
versity may be beneficial to both ele-
ments, will be wholly aloof and dis
tinct from that part of the university
devoted to the instruction and care
of the men
With such plan for base. DR..
alderman looked confidently to the
institution Of learning for the educa-
ton OF Virginia women which will
create n distinctive atmosphere for
Itself and al the same time do no vio-
lance N ~ Of
institution planned By Thomas Jef-
fcrson.
Not Cocducution.
DR.. Alderman aSSdilcd the statement
advanced by many OF the speakers OF
the other side that even liz such an
institution would in the beginning be
free from the most objectionable fea-
lures OF coeducation, 1t would be only
n question Of time before frank CO.
education would suppiant H. IT was
not true To the trend of modern edu-
cation Even in the large Western
universities, he declared. where the
cOcJucational idea Is carried out in
Its fullest. the cver-increasng ten
dency is toward segreSa tion-toward
greater and greater separation be-
tween the sexes.
1T would be a sinful thing.r he said.
TO sink hundreds of thousands of dol
lars into the establishment or sep
present condition OF the States
iinanccs. wham we have ready at hand
a priceless educational plant, a great
part Of which can he devoted to this
purpose.
Il believe that with this proposed
CO. ordinate college once realized, the
usefulness or the University of Vir-
ginia would be Increased one hundred
fold. II is time to get rid of the idea
that.thc university Is retreat, or an
asylum, or an. Olympus. It Is moving,
not static. The motto of. the univer-
sity is not uniInenessi as many seem
lUsthink but service"
CDR. Alderman reiterated tho state
ment made by him OH Il former ucca-
SIGN that he. as we'll MS the faculty.
we're unaiterably opposed to cocd1cu
lion. With such the case with tho
,srsat4 body OF alumai opposed 10 co.