Believing In Fair-play We Admit To Our
coiunms, lo-uay, a coiiimuiiication in response to "OusERvnu" who bad hls say - and a vcry good say, too - in tbi Aitcrs, concerniug the proposed admlssion of women to the Unlveralty. We may, pcrhaps, pertlneotly advisc "Pais Plat" that the .correspondent to whom he replies, probably has as high and exalted au idea ff womanhood as any ofher special champions, the "modem progressives'" and that liis fainily and lifo associations may not liave been siich as to prepare lihn to fully ■appreciatc that terrible thrust at the "tyrannical sphere" of men. Preraislng this Much we leave "Ouserver1 to his fate. - Wc must protest, however, against knyof oar ownsins ofomission er commission being charged over to "Obskrvei:.' The "Assyrian" quotatlon was iroin an Augus editorial - edltion of the 14tli- and Hot from our correspondent. We must also iall the attentiou of our readers to the suggestions of'FAiK PtAT" that a chango of coursus must (öllow to accommodate woMen, - the vcry clamor we predictetl would (ome noxt. Admission to the Unlversity udits present conrees is not what is want fcd. That is only the entering weeïge, when tho wedge is dri ven home it will bc "a theel wlthin a wheel," a Female College Tfithin the Universlty. But in numbers "Pub lJr,Y'' probably sees prosperity, tfueth'er the standard be high or low. Wc liad supposed that to day Amherst, wltb 182 BtndenM, ranks higher aniong institutions of learuing and educated men thau Oberlin with her 1,486; and th.it Brown, Tvith but 200 studcuts, is more thau the peer of Kaox College, 111., with its female attacliment and largo numbers. The reasous for this are patent, and we may refer to thein anothcr time. And if the Michigan Dnlverslty is to let down her courses and standard to Oberlin and Knox sbe must be eonteut to take rank with tliem. "We, thercfore, hope ihat the Regents wlll beware of auy new conrses, - ezcept the practical ovas we look the libertyto propose in our former artlcle. Our down the-river frienda at 'Godirey's Station on the Potowatomla Trail, ■alias Tpsllanti," aro now running over fnll, e'namost to the pointfof baratlng. In brief this is the cause of thelr glorlflcation.- Theyhave made a contract wlth the Pere Marqnetto and Toledo and Northern Hailroad Coiupanieï, wliich f they can comply J thelr part rnsnres the building withiu eightecn montlis of the road from Toledo through Vpsüunti to Holly. "We belleve that stock and municipal aid to the amonnt of $450,000 Is to be procured within three months, or by the löth of April, conditioncil on which the Pere Marquette is to lron and stock the road when the bed is made "(ady. Report also saya that our Tpsllanti frienda also contract to 'et vrlthln thrce months a decisión from the Bnpreme Court sustaining the constitutionalily oi tlie aid law. l)utof this we cun't spoak from the card. But as tliey have abundance of energy and plenty of conlidence In themselves- twoiltsirableqnalities wheu a big job is to be nndertaken- we are not sui" prised at the report. - An election has already been called for Ypellantl city, for the 81st day of Pebruary, to vote aid in tlie sum of 55,000, ihowiug concluslvely that they mean work' - Meantime our citizens can proflt a littte by the ezample of our Tpsllantl i bors. We need a little more of tiieir unloi and viin. U we have al most "sinned awaj our day of grace" the more need of going to work,- not to throw col.l water on the ipsilanti route, but to push forward our owu project. Tiwfa our niind, at least. On the 9tlf inst., James M. SiiamcUm, of Salera, whlle playlng wlth cliildren of a nelghbor, feil, a kniíe n hls bami entering his throat, serering the maiu Wery and causlag almost instant death Ue was 37 years old. There was a snow slorm Wednesday afternoon, and a runaway, by a ftai . one yesterday alternoon. -Ifyou an disposed to Intímate tha wetwo items or events.ha.ye uo connecUon -don't.
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