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Women And The University--reply To "observer."

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
January
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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. mm : - Ai'icr ronding the communlcaüati In your I iftire 21st tast-, on the subject ofadoen ti) the privileges of the Unlverslty, I was puzzled to decido what vvere tho exacl views of lts author. Dldho ■ that women are a nulsance andonty ■ i because man can not get aloug without them, and that wc Bhould, therefora, refuse thera all the blgher privileges of society and of culture, orthat thoy ure such formidable rivale ofman In his present tyraunlcal sphere thftt it is daugerou them a foothold on the .ame platform wlth himself? Evldently he do iza the faot that woiuan s endowed 'wlth au intellect and a will of as high and perfect an order , ind that nature has not only made her a companlon to man, bul. has also made lier his eqnal ia hing pertalning to t!ie ftner and liigli:;■ qualltles of uur nature, in order that her coinimuionshlp may be agroeablo and serviceable. A terrible thing he tainks it would be If a woman shoutd flll a professor's chalr, If a woman fltted tbr the positlou could U: secured lbr snch an honored placo lu the Unlyerslty oí Michigan, I claim that there is DO ceaSOD why she shoald not Ijc cbosen and honored cqually vii!i those men who aru now the iucuiii bents otsucli oiiiccs. If Mr. "Observer" can define any 1 shoald be glad to hare liim di' pr ï oar correspondent is fo!l of apprehenslon that the Unlverslty will be "overrun by women," and yivep, as his rcasou for such appreheuslon "the lucreusing ra'uks of 'women of the age' - giis who are restless ander the natural and divine law ol'womanhood, who paut for uotoriely," and then prophesieu that thls ís the class that will "come dowu upou the Univcrsitj-, Assyriaa fashion, Ik HIcg tliñ wolf on thefolil Thcir coiiorts all gleamuii; with purple and gold. He asserts that ''eeping np the standard to tiie present grade" will be 110 protectiou tlwH7i üïirl in thp tivt cmitillfr iets tliat thelr ñames wlH be chiefly regiaered In the "least agrseable list," who ihe Unlversity without takiiig any egree." "Oh, consisteney thou art a evvol." Why dicl not our "Observer" exend his öbservatlons a little further bcfore rashly roacliiug liis conclusious ? llow itlablc it would be for womeu to enter a Jnl verglty whose courses of study are aranged witli particular reference to the Hies of meu, and not iollow exactly iiy course that Is prescribid for graduaion ! Even though there sliould be 110 peeial provisión made for the wanta of voiücu in the Uuiversity, there would be nany true womeo who would recognize the aloe ota tour years' discipline In the more liilicult studies, and Who would gradúate vitli honor in the different departments ; ut the people may rcasonably expect tliat he Rcgeilte will as soon recognize and proride for the wants o!' oue c'.ass us those of nnothcr, and lf the nnmbers or women are reat enongo and thelr necessltles pressing enough thelr wants will be attended to as speedlly and as cheerfnlly as the wants oí iny particular class are at present, and and uew branches will bu pro■iiird for without in the least lowerlng the iresent standard of scholarshlp. Is not this the spirit of the resolutlun adopted by heRegentsV They recognlze uo distiuction in sex ainong those permitted to enter ; thcir purpose is to furnlsh to all the facilltv.'s vrhlch lie in thelr power for a liberal educatlon, and it would be contrary to the spirit of the Unlversity charter, and cun tradictory to thelr own dsclarationa il one class or stx (rere provlded for while another were allowed lo suffer from utglect. "Observe r" lamenta further that therc are men connected wlth the fcculties of the Univerelty so alive tothestirringquestions of the day as to bc kuown to be commltted cithcr to oue side or the othor of the "wcman question." He WOUld have our professors a set of bigots, or elsc a class of pastive, i-iuliUerSiit eharacters, who do not have or expresa any opinión of thelr own on the mQSt vital questious whieh are agltating the people. lie can "only wrlte sadly" of the fact that live "roitssors of the Uulyerslty are willing to beknown as those who favor woman suffrage. Hevvould not have iny so radical. I eau "only write sadly'' that thzrc are all the rest ho aie commltted to the other side of the ques tiou. Who lius the more reascu to be "sad r Surely H is strange, lf true, that the Unlverslty is to bc "scattered and peeled" [whatever that may be] "at the whiiu of n coterie oí ultraists and dreamers who have cast off theguidaucc of reason and reIík'iüu," il' "to-day she takes her place with the co-called colk-jrcs which are mcrely High Schools,'' simply because her borders are extended a little, and she bas become a little more worthy the name she bears. This is not so. The step taken will tend rather to en noble and elévate her charactcr, and from the date of that resolutton dawna the greatest renown and most snbstantlal glory that she will ever enloy in her history. FAIR FLAT. Cotrntissioner Delano estimatea that it will oost 815,000,000 to collect the internal revenno the current iiseal jrcnr.

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