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he answered the question whether or
not Wells were going to ~ any voca-
tional courses To its curriculum. AS
President Sykes said. a college must
answer the needs OF the people.
1T may he possible that the women
" the future will demand institutions
quite different from anything we have
to-day. quite different from anything
which the men have. ! am not wise
enough to furesee what il may he. I
do know. however. that the demand
for the change is not sufficiently
urgent yet To warrant making the
many necessary adjustments in a
machinery manufactured to produce
other results. Even the alumna-
many OF whom are earning their own
liNing-do not advocate the introduce
ton OF vocational courses. and. until
they do ! guess We will keep on in the
way We are going now.
You recall. don't you. that the first
women WHO sought higher education
did not want to receive Il through
institutions founded and maintained
only for them? Mary Freeman
Palmer, for instance. insisted upon
studying at Michigan with the men
she wanted To prove her intellectual
ability in direct competition with the
! men. That was the function Of CO.
education-to give women a chance TO
Shot that they have n mentality every
bit as good as that OF the men.
~"coeducation has done it's part. II
has practically been dismissed here in
the Eas'. Here we prefer separate
colleges for women founded on the
same traditions as those for men.
maintaining as high a standard Of
scholarship and, in short. performing
the same functions. What will We
have in the future"
ouc answer he had heard AZ the
very luncheon he had just attended.
II TURKS in every corner of The cur
riculum IF :hc Connecticut College, and
It has been given before in this article:
\ university FOR Women
Does no' the announcement ut this
newest institution say. In incorporate
ing Ia its scheme Of instruction NJ the
outset various branches OF technical
training Connecticut College par
tho way for the establishment Of the
technical schools II viii seek To provide
for the professional training Of women
n the fields of education, applied sci
.nce. and the art? And
did not It's president say. when he Was
making his address 10 the deans and
presidents of the nP'ghhoring colleges
who had come TO wish him well: BE
yond Tho immediate goal Of the coll
lege les another when around the
woman's college arise the professional
ara technical schools which will euuip
women as suoh institutions develop
men, We viii find ourselves in the pos
session Of a woman's university. see
its lofty towers already on the hori-
zon""
iou travel on to Boston. and what
do you find? Another indication tina;
the university idea is taking root. For
Radcliffe. II is found, is perilously near
the acquisition of n school of law.
which would put It in the university
class.
ferilously near. For the new Cam
bridge law school Is housed in its
halls, the students Of legal lore use
Is campus and its books as do is
students, Yet the law school has
no formal, no official connection either
with the womau's college ar with the
university OF which il is now a part.
1t 700 is an experiment. If ii proves
20 he n good one Radcliffe may adopt
j properly and give it its name To
carry through life. II this m to
pass the Radcliffe will begin to he n
university.
Harvard will not adopt il. II prac-
tically threw it out OF the house before
Radcliffe took it in, Not tina II Is an
undesirable, far from ii. but rather
that it IL something so new that no
one knows exactly what to do with II.
Perhaps one should begin AT the be-
ginning and tell how it came into he
ing.
About two wears ~ some twenty
I'VE girls at Barnard, Radcliffe and
Brya Mawr (which. by the way.
claims the distinction OF having con-
tributed more students to the law
schools II he ountry han any other
woman's colicge) circulated n petition
To the universities of the East, asking
them to admit women to their schools
OF medicine and law on the same terms
as the men. This petition failed to
Opcn any of the closed doors at Yale
or Harvard or Columbia.
standing Room only" said the au-
thorities, THE classes are already So
crowded with men we couldn't possi-
bly make room for women students
too" II might have been a little more
truthful II they had said: I'VE don't