experiment here
successful."
Galusha Anderson, president of Chicago University, wrote: "Our
only law here is that the students shall act as gentlemen and
ladies. They mingle freely together, just as they do in society,
as I think God intended that they should, and the effect in all
respects is good. I have never had the slightest trouble from the
association of the sexes."
Chancellor Manatt of Nebraska University, for four years engaged
in university work at Yale, in answer to the questions as to
whether boys would be driven away from the institution, replied:
"This question sounds like a joke in this longitude. As well say
a girl's being born into a family turns the boys out of doors. It
rather strengthens the home attraction. So in the university. I
believe there is not a professor or student here who would not,
for good and solid reasons, fight for the system."
President Warren of Boston University, lately the recipient of,
L200,000, wrote: "The only opponents of coeducation I have ever
known are persons who know nothing about it practically, and
whose difficulties are all speculative and imaginary. Men are
more manly and women more womanly when concerted in a wholly
human society than when educated in a half-human one."
President White of Cornell wrote: "I regard the 'annex' for women
in our colleges as a mere make-shift and step in the progress
toward the full admission of women to all college classes, and I
think that this is a very general view among men who have given
unprejudiced thought to the subject. Having now gone through one
more year, making twelve in all since women were admitted, I do
not hesitate to say that I believe their presence here is good
for us in every respect."
Professor Moses Coit Tyler of Cornell said: "My observation has
been that under the joint system the tone of college life has
grown more earnest, more courteous and refined, less flippant and
cynical. The women are usually among the very best scholars, and
lead instead of drag, and their lapses from good health are
rather, yes, decidedly, less numerous than those alleged by the
men. There is a sort of young man who thinks it not quite the
thing, you know, to be in a college where women are; and he goes
away, if he can, and I am glad to
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