Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1951 — Page 40

mendation. According to spokesmen at Northwestern University, which is celebrating its 100th birthday this year, it required social evojution as well as educational progress to change the longskirted collegian of great-

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jeans-clad coed of 1051. Chance figured largely, too,

in the annals of this particular

‘ university. It was only a happy

circumstance that a courageous young man named William P. Jones chose a certain June day a century ago as his date for breaking ground for his new

school for young females. Oth-’

erwise, it’s likely a greater number of years would have passed before a woman graduating from college in Evanston, Ill, could expect a honafide de-. gree rather than the academfeally worthless “laureates” that had been bestowed theretofore. x ~ o » ON THIS DAY, also, was laid the foundation stone for Northwestern University, and when Jones “borrowed” the speaker and the assembled crowd from across the grove for his own dedication ceremony, the first link was forged in a chain of events that led, 14 years later, to the absorption of the little school as the wom-

an's branch of the university. ;

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Since 1869, coeds have been a part of the campus scene at Northwestern. Their changing role is aptly demonstrated by a study of women's athletics through the years. At first, a sedate stroll in full dress took care of exercise requirements, Later, after 1876 when the uni. versity’s first gymnasium was erected, the young ladies—still enveloped in their long skirts engaged in mild Indoor athletics. Middies and bloomers were adopted by the daring about 1914; but it wasn’t until the 1930's that the donning of shorts allowed sufficient freedom for seriously competitive sports. Perhaps of greater significance, however, is the manner in which the coeds have held their own in matters of intellect. Phi Beta Kappa, a national honorary society based

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ALTHOUGH women were not admitted until three years later, they set records from the beginning. In 1892 four women and nine men were elected. The following year an equal number of men and women qualified, three of each. Since there were at that time a great many more male than female students enrolled at the university, these records seem propoftionately more important. Today's young coed, examining the outmoded fashions and quaint ideas of those who occupled the dormitories before her, may very well view the various stages of educational development with more gratitude tHan understanding. This, according to Florence

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