Wants Separate Classes For Girls

WANTS SEPARATE CLASSES FOR GIRLS

One Student Probably Tired of Keeping Up

DON'T LIKE CO-EDUCATION

And Wants Young Women Segregated - A Revival of the Old Feeling of Prejudice

The Daily-News last week published a communication from some rather ungallant, ande-deluvian student, who is probably disgusted with the way young women of the University are taking the front rank in making star recitations. His communication was as follows:

To the Editor Daily-News:

It has long been a question in the minds of prominent educational thinkers all over the country whether co-education as an experiment has not proved itself to be a failure. Has not the time arrived for the great universities to take a step - not backward, for the backward step was taken when women were admitted to equal standing with men in our great institutions of learning - but forward, by at least insisting upon segregation of the sexes in the class-room.

The experiment was first inaugurated at the University of Michigan. We have the questionable honor of being the first great college to admit women to its portals, 'way back in 1870. But deep-seated prejudice and honest conviction are hard forces to counteract, and the growth in the number of women in the college side by side with men has been slow. Only recently has the number risen to such an extent as to be undesirable. But at present in the literary department of the University of Michigan the feminine enrollment exceeds 50 per cent of the whole number of students, and the time has come to call a halt. It is wholly unnecessary to enumerate the disadvantages of co-education. They are known only too well to every one. The great institutions of the East knowing the dangers have never admitted women. In the West the scheme has been tried. But already come colleges are beginning to see their mistake, and Chicago is now trying the remedy of segregation in the class-room. This is certainly a step in the classroom. This is certainly a step in the right direction. As Michigan was among the first to make the trial, so she should be in abandoning it when found wanting.

A.N.T.I.