| Show AS S TO JO It Is Ii all right occasionally occa to see IH our ourselves selves ns nil others see ee us and anI nd an nn opportunity opportunity of ot doing so Is given when shen hon visitors tors tore give their Impressions of the coun country country try tn Miss Mini Elizabeth Phillipps Hughes Hughel Is III a it 1 noted English I woman who frankly toll told an on American audience that she hod found that there thre Is 18 a II reaction In Inthis Inthis this country against education coeducation co In our schools Ithe was WAil Wa by bythe b bythe I the h government to study stull edu educational ilu 1 conditions In Japan n and nM she Is Pt well wall qualified to speak liNk on en n school hool matters We had the Ih pleasure of ot meeting her hr while In this city elt on n her tier herway way wa westward and found her to be a n avery nar aVary very Vary ar Intelligent and critical women woman of ot great gr experience In educational affairs According to the she IM Mid kilt It was all a gre great t blow blo bie to her to find that In III this country a strong re me reaction action against co has ee co ne and nil she he Immediately Imme went flIt to work to discover the time reason for or She found rould that this the tb college coll women do not take col eal college lege Ige work ork very ery If seriously but give much time to social enjoyment They TM are ase further young and ami Immature In thought The Tb secondary tc are lire not net thorough cad ami the young rIMIng women enter college too young fer fir ltd lii Ir liberties The TI lady hail had studied be the girls In III a number of colleges II awl sl 1 i throughout tIde this country and a for tor ts be inott pert found that they do not show ho trained minds they t at II ate not no u uThe The Ifo do not swan mean w ea much to 10 them therm es a they the should She was also aile alarmed awl ad 4 at the bark hack hackward ward wave war 11 which seeks INk to limit Umit the tile number of ot worn women to be at atthe atthe the hl h b shows show that mm mn object to the tIM P of women itu nu nuI 6 aU I ami ate was s t that Utis will obtain until nut women In are art more mare in or w s a r bus lous In their work On the time subject of fraternities In tho the schools Miss lIu Hughes Hushes had this to say I Y which Is well worthy of ot se ou thought My Iy attention Is particularly directed to the Iho schools at of this coun country countr country try tr that Is In where tho the best Improve Improvement meat ment will be mantle made But Hut there Is ono one thing thine that thAl I notice In them which 1 I I think cannot be too strongly con condemned anti that thal Is the Increasing number of ot fraternities Tho The time lime In III secondary schools Is too Important to tobe tolie be loll dissipated and then thelle organizations a tox tux upon and nn hill l body boily 1101 They rime fhe brinK brIng too much social life for boys boyo antI and girls of tho the age I find lind In th se schools school To fo have fraternity diversion during this period veriod means macalma n 0 waste of time n it waste of energy and frequently the time formation of acquaintances I have lae wen Hlen jailed Jaded boys bos mid girls gIns In these theMe clashes whore they should hould be and alert and I Investigated IlIve ed eI when It the tha Pupils did not know kilo that they were tere under observation In one city ell I attended a n party anti and all was grieved and shocked at what I saw This social life lite Is absolutely disastrous to good school work ork At tIme the party varty of which I speak I saw nw n it freedom of ot both Loth speech and action which was waa anything but ad 1111 admirable mirable and atmil many anany young girls were wore entirely and some camo quite n ft I distance Those In authority cannot look Into tho the matter of frater fraternities In III secondary schools any liny too soon SOOIl Debating societies and organizations for tor the purpose ot of mental Improvement we the lady imly Ind does not nut con can condemn when conducted e under the super supervision supervIsion vision of at the direct or Indirect but hut club with no other object than amusement she thinks are arc detrimental to school work rork We believe there Is 18 much In this that thatIs Is true There Thore Is la reason for tor the fact that young oung women or most of at them do not college work serIously And why houll they the unless they enter the temples of or science for or tIme the purpose of ot becoming distinguished lawyers doe doc tow tars preachers preacher etc which most of them do not The Time ambition of the tho ma majority m Is III attuned f with tho ho position of ot queen In nn an American home by hy the side elde of at n a good true truo husband The Time wo women women men by IJ this tune time have found that their chances of at fulfilling the time measure of ot their creation Is not made le better botter by their delving In dusty volumes ton for the knowledge bequeathed b to lo the tIme world worM by b sages unit they prefer not to soil loll their little hands hand that way wn America Is III the very vel home of lion Ion and If there Is 18 u n reaction against t tIt It t It Is for tor good and sufficient reasons whether these be bo clearly clearl understood or or not In his practical country theories may be tested but If It they are found they will not bo ho adhered to o for or ever Jut hut IB is there really a reno rene tion against coeducation Or docs does It only appear so jO oto to the tIme casual observer |
