Inter-Mountain Republican | 1909-02-27 | Page 1 | Wesleyan Drops the Co-Ed Plan

WESLEY AN DROPS THE TilE ED CO-ED PLAN University Uni Uni- Hereafter the M Methodist Will Admit Only Male Students New York Feb 26 Thirty 6 Thirty elderly edery gentlemen sitting behind closed doors vote ote decided by an almost unanimous abolish education co-education at Wesleyan University to After 1909 1009 the tho fair co- co co cod d must go Co elsewhere for tor her education undergraduate under grad Thirty years u ago o tho the first unto woman students came to the Methodist university Since then they life lire of Middletown Middle Middle- of ot the have been b cn a part is la the town Conn where student students students stu stu- forty woman located There are dents dent thero there at present This important question consumed 80 so much time that the board did get around to the qU question of allowing the tho students to dance dunce in the gymnasium gym gym- Dancing has hag been going on n nat m mat at Wesleyan for some time in spite the toe discipline of or the the fact that of ot church forbids this form of or orI amusement Methodist The Tue students ma may take nice I to their theil petition to to use their answer I ending ending end end- In the resolution the gymnasium co education for what Is la tho the college cot col ing without the fair co lege Thero There dance was some ome consolation fo for foJ the woman however In the following re report report re- re G- G I port the establishment establish The rho committee on college collese for w wo women ment for a 0 separate recommends that such college b be men by this board as soon as 18 s e established funds are provided provider and necessary the Including matter of oC details that the of the thc amount of oC the consideration to such an establishment necessary money committee committee com corn special referred to a be to report at the annual meeting In June