Newark post., 1914-02-18

First-The building Of a sapa
rate college for women, differed
and controlled by women, which i.
the method largely in use in thu
Eastern States, where the women:
colleges owe their existence to pri
vate philanthropy.
"Second-The opening Of al
State institutions to women anC
men alike, the method Of the Wes
tern States and largely of Europe
"Third-The establishment of 6
woman's college Independent in es
sentials and with personality and
an atmosphere Of it's own, but CO.
ordinated with the State university
under it's supervision and control
and deriving from such affiliation
enormous advantages in economy
of administration, equipment, in
struction and tradition. The col
lege is to be equal in rank with any
standard college, and hence it is to
be coordinate and not subordinate.
II am opposed to the first plan
because | do not believe that pol
icy of complete segregation is the
best way to give to women the
training which they will need for
their fullest life in the century to
come.
81 am opposed to the second
plan because | do not believe in the
co-education of the sexes between
the period marked by the close Of
the high school and the attainment
of the bachelors degree. n n *
'There remains the third plan,
which commends itself to my judge
ment as the wise thing to do be-
cause if a genuine coordinate col
lege can be established the weak
nesses Of segregation can be avoid
ed on the one hand and disadvan-
tages Of co-education on the other.
"The coordinate college is COM
paratively a new educational struc-
ture because it is the result Of the
latest and best experiences Of man
kind. It's conspicuous examples
are to be found at Oxford and Cam
bridge in England and at Harvard
and Columbia, Tulane, Brown,
Western Reserve, in America Rut-
gers has recently decided to carry
out such an institution; Vanderbilt
University through it's relation with
the George Peabody College for
Teachers, is establishing practical
ly such connection, and will be in
position to serve in a very large
way the men and women of it's re-
gion; the University of the South,
at Sewanee, | am informed, is con-
templating such an addition to its
life.
"This new educational form,
therefore, has been tested and
found trustworthy. Some advan-
tages to society and to women
themselves of the coordinate col
lege are these: (D economy Of
force, (2) unity of effort, (3) a bet
ter understanding between the men
leaders and the women leaders in
social effort. -
Mrs. Munford, chairman of the
women s committee of II, thus
states their aims
'It is believed that the plan pro-
posed will provide educational op-
portunities for our girls equal to
those furnished our young men;
that it will conserve and multiply
the traditions and sentiments which
cluster around our State univers-
ity; that the scholarship of this in
stitution will serve new and in
creasing field, and that the Univers-
ity Of Virginia will be strengthen
ed and invigorated by this oppor-
tunity for service and further en-
deared to the hearts Of the rank
and file of the people of this COM
monwealth.'
She quotes the words of Thomas
Jefferson himself in describing his
plan for the founding Of the uni
versity.
"A system of general instruction
which shall reach every descrip-
ton OF our citizens, from the rich
EST to the poorest, as it was the ear
lest, so will ii be the latest of all
he public concerns in which the
atest of all the public concerns in
which | shall permit myself to take
IN interest. Nor am l tenacious to
he form in which it shall be intro
iuced. Be that what it may, our
descendants will be as wise as we
ire, and will know how to amend
md amend it until it shall suit
heir circumstances. Give it to us.
n any shape.