South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 48, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 17 February 1921 — Page 7

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Compare This Easy and Graceful Hiph Kicking by Miss Nina Whitmore with That of Walter French, the Famous Athlete and Right Half-Back of the Rutgers College Jc-am.

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KADEL & HERBERT

to be blotted out of the co-ed institution?

Will the next decade Fee th' re-establishn'icr.t of separate education for the men and women of the nation? Or ii the clan.or that college men are raining a;:ain.t the preier.ee in their alma mater of their .sisters merely the empty vaporir.s of minds seeking such an outkl from the cramped and cabined pursuit of higher education ? "We don't want pirls in our college!" rour3 the choru3 of undergraduates at Cornell and other bitf co-e(i institution.-. "They make us elfemicato. They cause a deterioration in our athletic cahbrc. Must the glorious record achieved in football and baseball in the past be dimmed because of this in-seep of women? Out with them! Let thei po to Barnard, Vr.ssar, where they will. They exercise the wrone; kind of inlluer.ee and really do not belong anion;' us." Lest anyone be so benighted as to picture this K-rl they are tring to put out as one in

Eombre parb with steel spectacles and i i l i . i i i.i .,

ünu ueror rat ana mannen tjoines. tne a:com-

panyin;' pictures, snapped in the habitat of th fair interloper, were secured for this pa-e. To look at them closely one miht .suspect that the old green-eyed monster prowis aboat the cot o' niphts of these college boy.-,. r)r instance, who would no; kick with this fair kicker V She kr.ew

Barnard College GirJs Play Real Baseball. Here Is the Babe Ruth of the Barnard Girls' Team Slamming a Hot One on the Nose for a Home Run.

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Girl Students in Northwest Colleges Are Taking to Lacrosse with Dash and Vim. The Photograph Shows an Exciting Play Near the Goal Moutö.

herself to kick. And kick she dM, far above the inark set by the envious one in gridiron accoutrement whose ciTort was quite feeble compared with hers. Look at the action picture- of these irl college students. The objects that look like dum mies in the picture are plump and pretty e;irl being passed over the heads of lines of their fellow students in the gcr.tb? game of "pass tho buck." Do the boastful stud, nts oi the "for men

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receive the sort of education that men, who aro more enthusiastic about the education of the malo j-cx than they are about higher opportunities for women, can give her. On the other hand, in a college exclusively for women everything is done from the viewpoint of women. A higher education of a cultural sort is atTorded the students, but special attention is given to developing initiative, responsibility and keenness of vision, tnd the results are remarkable. "A creat manv men. even educators, look

ous? And see tho action in that lacrosse ;-:ur.e upon the higher education of women from the

herewith depicted. The Indian? themselves in distant Canada never disclosed mere pep and vigor in this, their native game. And as for baseball! That leather pelUt t'.attened against the girl student's bat .-eems jut .bout as happy as or.e impinged against the mighty ash of tha great Babe Kuth ar.d no more so. Hut here are some of the grave charges mad against co-eds at Cornel!: They go to movies with the men. They go coasting on sleds with. tm men. Trey waik with them o nights in Forest Home Walk. They win places on the co'Iege organ. They attend .juiet little "house parties" piven ty the men. They join in student parades.

They sing the college songs in ferryboats! They wr.i-.t to be at'ilitlc mar.acrr-

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The "Pro and Con" of It

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One such is Dr. of Goucher Colone of the six

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first-class women colleges of this country.

says: "In the co-educational in.-titution everything Is dene from the viewpoint of men, and women

point of view of something that might be beneficial for them in the event of their having to earn a living a sort of glorification of the finishing fchool idea which permeates the South. The proper method is to atTord a cultural course in the fundamentals of education to prepare them for life in general and give them a broad vision io that whether they become business women, wives and mothers, or first one and then the other, they will be able to perform their functions fter the bighest ideals and with the greatest ellieier.cy. "From such colleges as the one of which I em the president, women go forth, as do men, into the professional life. There is a great demand for college ettacatcd men, particularly in fecial service problems of reform and civic righteousness and the whole line of social service all over the country is demanding college tramed women. We find them also as helpers in r.cdicinA doing very important research work, rnd among our best statisticians are the graduates of women's colleges," fx women have an infinite patience with" details which has never been attained by their brothers.' The learned 1'resident Guth to the contrary, Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard ha3 ideas of her own on the subject. She say.: "The engineering and law schools are the only professional schools r.ot open to women and, while there ha3 never been any desire on the part of our students to enter the former, we have numbers of girls each year who would like to enter the Columbia law school. "We feel that Columbia has one of the bet law schools in the country and we aro naturally Anxious that women should have the advantage of the training. Law faculties are naturally con

servative. Harvard i? still excluding women, but Yala has recently admitted them. "The Barnard faculty recently adopted a set of resolutions and presented them to the Columbia law faculty. I understand that they are now carefully considering the matter. The admission of women will come sometime, of course. I hope soon." At Columbia, in the School of Journalism, women are quite welcome. "We haven't any problem of co-education here,"

faid Prof. Edward C. Cooper, pushing back a pile of manuscripts full of today's freshest news. "We have it, you understand, but it isn't any problem. "Any antipathy on the part of the men for the women students? Certainly not! I might venture so far" as to assert that the men like the women students. In fact, the whole school enjoys the contribution of the young women. "Our men students come from all part3 of the United States, some of them quite mature, with considerable newspaper experience. And they all get on with the feminine contingent very pleasantly. Our girls are a clever, nice lot and carry their end of work as worthy individuals, with never a thought of leaning for help on the men." She Has the Law with Her "Is this matter of co-education for undergraduates necessarily a geographical thing?" Prof. Walsh in the Columbia School of Architecture, was asked. "Or do you allow those students unencumbered by a degree to work along with the men?" "Yes, we have undergraduate students," Prof. Walsh answered. "No. I don't think co-education is geographical. The western universities, where co-education is so distinctly successful, started at a time when co-education seemed entirely natural. There were no traditions to tho contrary. "But the eastern colleges for men, which had been established for 50 or 100 years before there was any petition for women to enter, naturally couldn't change their traditions over night. When we recall the little group of old New Yorker3 who founded King's College in 1754, we can sea that Columbia has come a long way from the early idea. "But in architecture there isn't any discrimination, in the profession, between the sexes. Some of our women graduates have gone into tho profession by themselves and made a corking success of iL And they get cn well with tha men in classes. "Most women from, our school here go into interior decorating. But the men, while they objected at first to the introduction of women, saying that they would have to manicure their language, now like workirrg with them." But thce who support the agitation to driva the women out of what they say used to be

"he -men" colleges, have another obstacle to overcome, quite an impediment, too, as impediments go. This is the law. Particularly pertinent is this problem to the wemen student haters at Cornell. In 1873 the trustees of this institution accepted a not inconsiderable gift from Henry W. Sage with the express understanding that the college should open its doors to women who fhould receive instruction "as broad and as thorough as that now afforded the men." Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dixon White, founder and first president, accepted this pact. Now how could the institution break free from those iron bonds cf honor? Yet the seniors at Cornell continue to cry out against the idea and these arc some of their published sentiments: "Co-education has no defence; any attempt to justify it degenerates into an apology. It was an

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"Passing the Buck." This Form of Racing Is Popular Anions the Girls in French Colleges. The Three Girls Held Horizontally Do Not Seem to Mind This Strenuous Handling:. The One Who, When Passed from Hand to Hand, Reaches the End of the Line First Win? the Race.

accident; it is cheap and therefore is a failure, accepted where cheapness and expediency hold sway. In fairness to women in search of higher education and in fairness to men it should be and in due time win be abolished. "Women should be provided with proper schools of their own and rot dragged through tha co-educational process. It has absolutely r.o association with women's rights as some small minds are inclined to imply. It should be properly associated with women's wrongs, or more clearly, wrongs to womei.." But as long as co-education is at Cornell and ''cannot at onco bo turned out," the undergradu

ate leaders recommend limiting the proportioning cf women students until a separate women's college can be created. There "ire "0 per cent, more women In the college of liberal art.; at Cornell r.ow than there wer in the wholo university 10 years ago. "With women cn all of the publications excepting the Widow," continues the tirade, "with women leading football rallies ar.d ringing Cor-

;s on New York ferryboats, th

e real dan-

ger is r.ot with us yet. The real danger is that unss fomrthmg is dorn? we shall never be ablt to check the idea that Cornell is a woman' college instead of a 'he-man' institution."