Show SEX IN EDUCATION the university of st bt andrews in scotland opened it its doors to women absolutely on the same conditions as to MOD men this step has baa been widely commented on I 1 and for the most part favorably an eminent scientist named sir james crichton browne has however taken exception and characterizes it Is an ai a downward or retrogressive movement of a disastrous nature in a lecture recently before the london medical society he endeavored to show that women were physically unfitted to enter the lots lito in the higher walks of education his mal main a contention was that the female brain in ie lighter than that of the male that its 1 specific gravity is also alsol less esc and that in t the male the blood supply is ia chit fly by directed to the promotion of intellectuality volition and ideality while in the female it is ie dirt acted to the portions por tiong of the system concerned in the sensory functions A prominent medical man in this country promulgated a theory of a similar character a few years ago and stated that if we were to have highly intellectual and university educated women it ft crould would be at the expense of the physical and mental characteristics which are now esteemed comans womans greatest charms |