The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-28
Women's College Should Be Separate
Not Co-ordinate---A Reply

| perience with coordination, sustaIns
! DR. Macdonald
/ How long will the present trend
! from coordination to co-education
last? VIII 1t Withstand the pressure
which the necessity for economy will
exert as expenses increase and calls
| for State funds multiply?
! Ms to the University of South Caro-
lima.
In citing the experience of South
I Carolina to support her contention.
Miss Mckenney should have made 1t
plain that the proposition considered
there was the combination with the
University of South Carolina of AIN en-
listing women's college with an attend
ance Of 500 students. which was al
ready located in the same town. and
which offered to convey to the Uni
versity OF South Carolina its property
valued at $250.000-very different
from the plan here. The temptation
| to accept this offer can readily be I'M
! derstood In view OF a statement in re-
gard to 1t that this was the first gift
of consequence offered to this insti-
tuition In its whole history of 10
years" While a flaw in the title seems
| to have been the controlling reason
for the defeat OF the proposition be-
/ fore athe Legislature. 1t is also true
lhdt II was UppoScu because money
was needed for public scho.i Is ar6
ether institutions in the STATE. The
report of the debate states that one
| legislator said that whereas 1t would
cost the State nothing to acquire the
college for women. "thc time would
come when the State would have to
make large appropriations to main
tain it, This sounds singularly like
one feature OF the situation now be-
] 90 -, 1T A.
the bait of $4,000 as a donation
hsld out. although In this case the DO
nation is not yet in sight
Coordinate College Not SeIf-Support-
| ing.
| Miss Mckinney altogether fails to
! prove that a coordinate college at
Charlottesville would be self-support-
/ ing by the example of Delaware Col
/ lege. She does not show what eie-
ments are included in the $204.65.
which each of the young women at
! tending that institution costs the
! State. Let US assume that all charges
of every sort have ben included. What
does this prove az 20 the cost at
| Charlottesville AT the University of
! Virginia, in che academic depart
ment, which is to have a parallel in
! the coordinate college, allowing
I every possible credit against the cost
OF conducting this department. each
I of the PTS Virginia students cost a
| little over s316.50 last year. adding
/ nothing for proper share OF fixed
charges OF various sorts.
II the university faculty Is in
creased so as to furnish instruction
at the coordinate college equal to
that furnished the men, ii can be seen
that these young ladies will not be
educated at a net cost to the State
of anything like s204.s5.
The women students from Virginia
are to pay no tuition fees in this col
! lege, and no evidence has been pro-
! duced which leads to the hope that
! there will be sufficient attendance
from other States to materially affect
| the income. whereas we have evidence
that high-grade separate women's
college in Virginia will draw from
other States.
Miss McKenney states that the wa .
mems colleges in Mississippi and
/ Florida are not recognized as
standard four-year colleges and have
practically no patronage from out
side their respective States. But we
are to have standard college, and
/ Randolph Macon Womans College in
4 Virginia. as contrasted with Sophie
Newcomb, coordinate college in
( New Orlean< both OF which draw
2 CnleIiy from southern leFfiloIy'
fully supports my contention. The
former had SO students last session
and drew from thirty-one States and
three foreign countries. with 379 stu
I dents resident elsewhere than in Nir-
giuia whereas the latter, with a
! large endowment and all the advan-
tages of coordination with Tulane.
/ had 343 college students all told and
hut -ffty-seven of these came from
States other than Louisiana.
/ Expense.
The fact that the women's- college
In Delaware has erected an academic
building and dormitory for s125,-
600 does not prove that inexpensive
buildings will satisfy the ladies who