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

/ reason that men do. Largely because
they have the largest facilities. In
the great c~oeducat!onal State colleges
In the West they get everything prac-
tically free. The Girl in the East does
not have such advantages.
THE problems OF higher education
for women in the Eastern States and
in the Western States are very diner-
ent, have always been different. The
| Western States had the experience OF
the East as a background or which to
improve when they began to plan
their educational institutions. Be-
cause OF this developed the coeduca-
tional colleges. They are great IN
! stitutlons OF learning. Nobody can
contradict that.
when the higher education OF Jul
girls became a problem in the Eastern
! States the effort vas to get for them
institutions as nearly as possible K
those already founded for their broth
ers. We have the segregated woman's
| college in the East because II Is
the best we can get.
But YOU must not think that the
Is all on the side or the
c~oeducational college. Though ONE
are admitted to such colleges. they are
the last to be considered. II Is al
ways the last dormitory. the last gym
nas,um, that Is given to the m
I don't mean the latest. mean that
the women are not provided for until
after the men have been supplied. III
you vii, notice you will md that a
woman IL the last to get a position IN
the faculty. .
AT a woman's college It 10 all
for women. They do not get the leav-
ings. but the whole. 1t Is quite true
that many branches tina should al
ways have been taught in women's
colleges have either been left out or
taught specifically. The same fault
can with justice be found with mems
colleges. Now gradually this faui'
is being remedied. As an instance oil
what | mean we will take physical
education. OF course that should al
ways have been 2 part OF a girls col
lege training. II is now.
practically every woman's college
requires a physical examination, a
study Of hygiene and a high STANDARD
OF health Of students. l do not know
of any other social institution thai
offers n woman anything comparahl,
to the medical department Mt Nassar
There they have a corps OF physicians
who examine the students, train then
in hygiene, keep them under theil
ayes for four full years, the foul
wears that are about the most cr.ti
cal Of a girls life. Think of wha'
, such training means to n girl. 1t II
bound to raise the standard.
"Dietetics ought to be a part o
every curriculum Of every woman
! college. Why not men as well al
women? At Columbia we have tn
, school of practical arts, which ! ono
, described as n ~coeducational schoo
inhabited mostly by VIII!
should girls be forced to study suci
subjects n more tina men?
] speaking of this subject ono
! said that I believed men might recap
: ture women for the kitchen II the,
I allowed the to train for It ant
: treat It as laboratory work. And
still believe It. Cooking. household
= work, understood and carried on
! scientifically, ceases to he drudgery
; The worker instead Of being a drudg
3 becomes an investigator.
. "There Is now In all women's col
!. leges a very practical move for al
I applied arts. Domestic science. ceram
les. interior decorating. horticultur
! and various branches Of hoNsehol
s economy arc all included in the cur
riculum OF the Connecticut College 10
Women. Perhaps I should add tina
= such courses are being offered by man
9 other women's colleges.