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Day
21
Month
January
Year
1891
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In an open letter to the Regents of Michigan University, an appeal is made tb.at.the women graduates oL the University should be sometimes drawn upon for instructora at the University. The serious consideration of the Regents is asked for this subject at their next meeting. It is claimed that an institution cannot be really co-educationai "until it is co-educatiug - until men and women both and together fonn the teaching f orce and influence of that institution - until the girls in the university can be brought into asaociation with superior, cultivated, scholarly, accomphshed women in the faculty of teachers as well as men of the same grade of scholarly atlainments. And thus it seems to hundreds of men and women in our State. Xow that lumdreds of girls are in the university and the experiment is before us, it does not seem right or proper, nor for their best good, that they should be almost entirely sbut out, for the space of four years, trom all association with womeo who shall stand to them somewhat in the relation ui an older, wiser friend or mother, as well as teacher. In short, ït seems wen ana proper and needful that among 115 professors and instructora, nearly 400 young women should claim that soine proportirm of these teachers should be women." The friends of the movement do not aak that any professor of the university be displaced to make room for any woman, but that the new appointments which the growth of the university necessitates from time to time shall be of nenien. In connection with this the scheme of the Detroit Womon's Club is particularly interesting. They propose to found a professorship in Ann Arbor University to be fllled always by a woman. There are several larae pledges to start with, eme man offering

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Ann Arbor Courier