The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-20


at Charlottesville dangerous for their
sisters and the sisters of their friends?
No sensible. candid person believes that
the students of the university Will be-
have in one fashion toward young wo-
men In their own towns or homes and
IN different way IN the surroundings
OF the university. The talk OF danger
coordinate college Is poor compli-
ment to the Intelligence OF the young
men of Virginia now at they university
! ana to the characters of all the young
| women who have ever visited the uni
xersity. If the young men have a
: solves. which absolutely prevents haz-
z ing and bullying between man and
man, is II likely that their attitude to
nate college would be marked by any
Thing but courtesy? So much for Ill
! ISOLATION with young ladies. than. the
/ students there now enjoy might be Il
decrease of the ultra masculine vices
OF the university-the drinking. gam
| bling and sexual Vice which the SPLEEN
didly vigorous. but too narrow Honor
, system of the present university does
why, now, should the college for
near future, DO founded u st as eo i tn
nate college OF the University of Vir-
ginia. What of the positive advan-
tagcs? They are two-fold: first. to
the university: secondly. to the women
Of the state If there is founded a
! college for women under State control
yet separate from the university, the
present triple division of the efforts.
Interests and energies Of the State be-
tween the universlty OF Virginia. the
quadruple division. When the V. T.
/ was founded it should have been
ture and Technology OF the University
of Virginia, but the university and the
:;ate were alike Indifferent to the I'm
educational machinery of the com
munity. The state of South Carolina
may we'll be warning to Virginia in
State colleges are five in four different
towns-the university at Columbia;
the Normal College FOR Agrieulturnl
cultural College, at Calhoun. and the
Military College tCitadeD and Medical
CosgS at Charleston The result Is
appropriations. and appeals to local
rivalry. One thing Is always in evi..
nothing is easier than to play off the
interests of the womans college in
the Legislature ms against any or all
To establish the States college for
women anywhere else In Virginia but
where the University Of Virginia stands
already. the second and dearer home
Of thousands of Virginians and Amer
leans. would be foolish and pitiful
anachronism; Establish an annex TO
the university and SO make It's pres
ent false claim to be the capstone OF
the public school system OF Virginia
versity will feel far deeper current
of life flowing to II and from II again
out Into the real people OF Virginia
The people of Virginia, 1t Is to be re-
mcmberod. are more than half OF them
women. who are now quite denied any
right TO pride in the university except
The opponents of the plan for the
co ordinate college for the most part
refuse TO believe that there is neces,
sity for change in the methods. and
aims OF life in Virginia. In spite OF
the whole history OF the state, which
is, one series of retreats on the part
Of privilege to the next before the
oncoming hosts of democracy and
like the men and women of their order
everywhere. still resist doggedly every
extension Of their privileges to the
many. II was In the teeth Of the oppo-
sition OF the privileged order that the
founder OF the University OF Virginia
abolished the right of primogeniture
Church-the exclusive right OF one set
of Virgin!ans TO support their de-
nomination from the taxes
State has been amended to widen the
basis of the suffrage. the conservatives
have stMrdily fought for their priv
until 1850. In the I0s they vigorously
opposed the public school system. In
the same way the present
refuse to see tina, the demands, of wo-
men In Virginia for more education
and freer wider field of activity are
everywhere. If we neglec, this oppor
tunity OF attaching to the university
the nov wasted potential loyalty OF
the feminine half Of the population OF
Virginia, ii may be too late In the
future.
So much for the benefit to the uni
But what of the benefits TO the women
from the university? Why should they
have their college under the SHADOW OK
the university rather than anywhere
else in Virginia?
The University OF Virginia is more
than n collection OF students teachers
anp ' pius the eoncentrated influence
OF former men and their contribution
to the ideal or the c %In,IiIn you IN
the women of Virginia ana the other
Southern States, which will always CON
tribute the great majority OF the STU
dents. bo surrounded by, so many In
fuenccs OF the utmost Importance IN
the development of character ana Inc
promotion of intellectual vigor; the
honor system OF the university. Its de-
votion 10 rigorous. thorough work, its
power to shape Southern public opin-
OF education, are qualities which may
perhaps be matched singly by other
institutions in the state, but which IN
centre of learning in Virginia. and
Without doubt the most famous uni
versitv in our quarter Of the republic
TO exclude the women Of Virginia from
the privilege of drawing their insplra-
ton directly from the same source from
which their brothers have derived
theirs for nearly three generatonss'
would be an act or delinelriate sen
on the part OF virginia. =
L. p CHAMBERLAYNE.
University of South Carolina.
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Nnat Representntive Represent.
TO the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Ns.ir L. INC chief function OF leg