rees, but a
subordinate arrangement with "diploma examinations, so far and so
fast as the resources of the college shall allow."

As soon as the subject became known, the newspapers of the city
took up the question. As the public furnishes the means and the
students for every college, the public were vitally interested.
Ministers preached about it, and they, with doctors and lawyers,
wrote strong articles, showing that no "annex" was desired; that
parents wished thorough, high, self-reliant education for their
daughters as for their sons; that health was not injured by the
embarrassment (?) of reciting before young men; that young men
had not been deterred from going to Ann Arbor, Oberlin, Cornell,
and other institutions where there are young women; that it was
unjust to make girls go hundreds of miles away to Vassar or Smith
or Wellesley, when boys were provided with the best education at
their very doors; that, with over half the colleges of this
country admitting women, with the colleges of Italy, Switzerland,
Sweden, Holland and France throwing open their doors to women,
for Adelbert College to shut them out, would be a step backward
in civilization.

The women of the city took up the matter, and several thousands
of our best names were obtained to a petition, asking that girls
be retained members of the college; judges and leading persons
gladly signed. The trustees met November 7, 1884. The whole city
eagerly waited the result. The chairman of the committee, Hon. I.
W. Chamberlain of Columbus, who had been opposed to coeducation
at first, from the favorable reports received by him from
colleges all over the country, had become a thorough convert, and
the report was able and convincing.

President Angell of Michigan University, where there are 1,500
students, wrote: "Women were admitted here under the pressure of
public sentiment against the wishes of most of the professors.
But I think no professor now regrets it, or would favor the
exclusion of women. We made no solitary modification of our rules
or requirements. The women did not become hoydenish; they did not
fail in their studies; they did not break down in health; they
have been graduated in all departments; they have not been
inferior in scholarship to the men. We count the