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Show A CHICAGO PROFESSOR ON CO-EDUCATION. Professor Thomas of Chicago university, uni-versity, writing of "The Mind ot Woman," makes tho following interesting inter-esting statements: "Even In America few of the great schools are coeducational and in those which are so many of the instructors claim that they do not find it possible to treat with tho men and women on precisely the same basis, both because be-cause of their mental attitude toward mixed classes and the Inability ot the women to receive such treatment Men and women still form two distinct dis-tinct classes and are not in free communication com-munication with each othor. Not only arc women unable to be communicated commu-nicated with directly, unconventionally unconvention-ally and truly on many subjects, but men are unwilling to talk to them. I do not have in mind situations j Involving In-volving questions of propriety or delicacy del-icacy alone, " but a certain restraint, originating doubtless in matters relating relat-ing to sex, extends to all intercourse with women, with the result that they are not really admitted to th6 intellectual intel-lectual world of men; and ihere Is not only a reluctance on the part of men tc admit them, but a reluctance-7-or, rather, a real inability on their part to enter. Modesty with reference to personal habits has become so ingrained in-grained and habitual and to do anything any-thing freely is so foreign to woman that even free thought Is almost of the nature of an immodesty In her. There Is even a phrase that a woman who thinks is as disgusting as a man who paints." |