Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-20
ODD INCIDENTS IN AMERICAN
 HISTORY
THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF wo-

THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF Wo-
 MEN.
 When to few daring minds the con- victions came that education was a righ. of personality rather than of sex, and when there was added to -Slis growing sentiment the pressing demand for eG- ucated women. as teachers anu es leat- CTS in philanthropy, the simpIest nlN<ns of equipping women with the needful preparation was found in tha existing schools and colleges.
 In nearly every state west cf the Alleghenies, universities had been founded by the voluntary tax of the whole population. Connected with all the more powerful religious denomfnr- tons were schools and colleges, which called upon their adherents for gifts and students. These democratic institutions had the vigor of youth, and were arnbi- uous and struggling. Why asked the practical men of affairs who controlled them, should not our daughters go cn with our sons from the public schools to the university which we are sacrificing to equip and maintain?'"
 It is not strange that with this and much more practical reasoning of a similar kind, coeducation was establish ed in some colleges at their beginning In others after debate and by radi- cal change in policy. When once the chivalrous desire was aroused to give girls as good an education as their brothers Western men carried ont the principal unf1inchngly From the kind ergarten to the preparation for the doc torate of philosophy educational op- portunities are now practically alike for men and women.
 The number of colleges of arts ana science empowered by law to give degrees, are nearly all the state uni versailles, and nearly all the colleges .1n- der the patronage of the Protestant sects
 In the west coeducation certainly had greater 3urrency than elsewh ere | at first. But it originated. at lease so | far as concerns superior secondary training, in Massachusetts. Bradford Academy, chartered in 1894, is the old i est incorporated institution in the 1 country to which boys and girls were l from the first admitted, but it closed 1 its depa rtment for bovs in 1S36, threa | years after the foundation of coeduca- | tional Oberlin, and in the very year when Mount Holvoke was opened by Mary Lyon, in the large hope of doing l for young women what Harvard had I been founded to do for young men | just two hundred years before. Ips- 1 wich and Abbot Academies in Massa. chusetts had already been chartered to educate girls alone.
 In the short period of the twenty years after the war the four women's | colleges which are the richest in en, l dowments and students of any in the | world were founded and set in motion l These colleges-Vassar, opened in 1885 | Wellesley and Smith in 1875 and Bryr l Mawr in 1S85-have received gifts Q, every kind and are educating thousand, of students. Then came an increas
 ing demand, especially from tea acher! for education of all sorts. In an sttemp to meet a demand of this sort tn, Harvard annex began in 1879 to provid,
 a few women with instruction iron members of the Harvard faculty. i Barnard college, in New York, is aI annex of Columbia only Tn a sense, fo not all her instructions is given b' Colunbfa's s teaching force, though Co
 lunhia will confer degrees upon he
 graduates The new woman's col,es at Cleveland sustains temporarily tn
 same relations to Adelbert colleg
 though to 3. still greater extent sh provides independent instruction.
 The Cleveland College for Wome1 at Cleveland, Ohio, was first opened fo
 instruction in 1888 a department o 1, Westren Reserve University. At th same time the trustees of the uni