The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-30

ters to c~oeducational universities. or at
least to semi-coedncat!onal ones such
as Harvard and Columbia, where they
will have some opportunity to meet
superior young men.
"t2) The State or private berefac-
tor TO provide all mems colleges with
closely affiliated women's colleges and
all women's colleges with closely af-
hliated mems colleges and to provide
all women's colleges with strong de-
partments for the teaching Of domestic
science In the broadcast sense Of the
term. In case OF refusal OF the insti-
| tuition to accept such provisions, dis
elimination in the distribution OF
funds might we'll be made In favor Of
the more soundly organized institu-
tons.
When the attention OF DR.. Frederick
II. Sykes. president of the Connecticut
College for Women. was called to the
report Of the Pittsburg University In
vestigators he smiled tolerantly.
"In discussing sta tistics.' he replied.
might II not be we'll to begin by in
curing the object OF the women-why
those girls went to Wellesley College?
Wellesley. as we all know, has pro-
duced q grea, many very nne teachers.
Twenty years ago. indeed up to a few
years ago. teaching was about TIE
only field open to An educated woman.
And up to q very short time ago
teaching was an unmarried woman's
profession.
THE college woman Is, or can be
when she chooses. self-supporting. Be-
ing self-supporting o n Of
the reasons for marriage. Tho col
lege oma don't have to marry to
be supported. I believe It to be true
that educated women demand better
conditions in their homes. but I do
not believe II to be a matter to be
deplored. Why educate either men or
women II It didn't tend to raise the
standard?
up to a very short time marriage
meant that a woman must give ur
her profession. her career. Slowly and
most unwiilingly the world Is begin
ming to become accustomed to the Idea
Of the married woman working. Some
times i wonder just how many mer
would marry II they had to give uI
their business. their professions. Ye'
'fN "ohAN ~ "S a hatt
course from a m Instead o.
thinking OF 1t as self-sacrlfce on hel
part. many people appear to thinl
that she should be glad OF the chance
why can't they be fair to intelli
gent women-give them the sam,
chance that they do men?
However, II these Investigator
are only troubled about the girls II
the woplen's colleges, the segregated
colleges. they need not worry. Their
are three times as many women il
the coeducatlonal colleges as in tn,
segregated institutions. The colleg,
census shows that there are Nor
!. than Nifty thousand m In coedu
%cational institutions. against some
thing v g eighteen thousand in WON
ems colleges. ] don't think we nee,
, TO worry about race suicide as lonI
as this proportion of three to one re
, mains unchanged, even II we accep
the statistics given by these two In
vestigators.
mo. / would not class either Bar
nard or Radcliffe as a coeducatlona
= institution. The Barnard student doe
no; meet the Columbia man in a elias
room, and the same Is true OF tn
Harvard man and the Radcliffe cir
: The women's annex is for the sake O
economy. It Is an effort to give tn
girls a chance to get the edncatione
advantages provided p for the boy
: without admitting them to tho fu
fellowship n the college.
why do many women prefer @
educational oollegesr For the sam