Dr. James B. Angell On Co-education

DR. JAMES B. ANGELL ON CO-EDUCATION

An anti-segregation magazine article by Dr. James Rowland Angell, son of President Angell of Michigan, who is professor of experimental psychology at the University of Chicago, is attracting considerable attention. The article, entitled "Some Reflections Upon the Reaction From Co-Education," appeared in the Popular Science Monthly.

Many arguments for co-education are put forth, and the article also contains reference to the contest against the adoption of the proposed innovation at the University of Chicago, which was carried on by Prof. Angell and others. He says:

"Far and away the most serious problem which co-education has to face is unquestionably that involved in maintaining proper social relations between the sexes. Like all other influences making for the higher education is necessarily opposed to the view that woman's only function is maternity, and that her only proper attainments are either of a domestic or sexual character."

In conclusion Prof. Angell quotes statistics to show the reaction in universities, and says:

"Co-education will not be discarded upon any purely doctrinaire considerations of sexual functions and capacities."

The University hospital has just given out its report for the past year, ending June 30, 1902. Compared with preceding years, a great increase is shown. For the past year the total number of hospital days was 66,218, equivalent to 2,200 patients each spending one month in the hospital. In 1899 the number of hospital days was 25,582; in 1900 the number was 27,414, and in 1901 there were 57,673 hospital days.