Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — The Weekly Panoraima. [ARTICLE]

The Weekly Panoraima.

The Problem of Coeducation. In all that Is said at university commencements this year nothing will merit more serious attent on than the references to coeducation wh ch occir in the annual report read by Dr. Bonbrigbt at Northwestern. The Evanston Institution is not one from which we should expect to hear any doubts a* to the advisability of the system. It has been thoroughly comml tel to it, and one of its most conspicuous exemplars. Yet Dr. Bonbright exclaims: Is the system of coeducation in Northwestern University still on trial? Perhaps! The facts here, as at Stanford, seem to show that it is a system which cannot be kept in a state of equil.brlum, because the phenomena of the high schools are repeated at the universities. Thq latter tend to become gi ls* colleges. In ten years, for e*ample, the girls’ attendance at Northwestern has increased from 36 per cent to nearly 50 per cent, and this year there are more young women than y ung men in the graduating class. The general tendency has been incr ased by the policy of encouraging gifts for dormitories for the young women in preference to the young men, and Dr. Bonbright suggests that the girls’ enrollment should be limited by the capacity of the dormitories. -