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...girls - think that after a college course is completed, when people are earnestly studying some special course and have an object in view, then men and women will study together better than separately. The sentiment might vary greatly in different years, but I think I have told you the general opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CO-EDUCATION. | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...with Mr. Sears. The make-ups of Messrs. Hammond, Minturn, Mandell and Clark were capital. Mr. Lyman and Mr. Clark made quite an impression on the audience. The chorus was very good. The management, Messrs. Dorr. Lyman, Warner and Denniston, are to be congratulated upon the excellence of the general arrangements, to which was largely due the success of the evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. P. C. THEATRICALS. | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...cannot be said that co-education simply as co-education is a failure, nor can it be claimed that it is always a success. It would seem as though the better opinion would be that the advisability of co-education cannot be decided upon general grounds or from a preponderance of evidence in its favor, but that each case must be judged for itself. Where the conditions seem to be altogether favorable the experiment may well be tried, but in other cases the most careful conservatism would be the wisest policy. The president of Vassar very well says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...near future as a constituent part of the university with a suitable endowment, seems more than probable. Thus it is that it well behooves every student and graduate of Harvard to form as well as he can his opinion as to the advisability, not of co-education in general, but of co-education at Harvard. It is a reassuring thought that Harvard's policy, while it has always been progressive, has been at the same time wisely conservative, and we may be sure that hasty, ill-advised and radical measures will not be taken. But the mere introduction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...subject for debate at the Harvard Union tonight cannot fail to excite general interest throughout the college. An excellent opportunity will be given to sound the opinion of the students in regard to the advisability of compulsory prayers. Both sides will be heard, and undoubtedly there will be a large attendance. The subject is, "Resolved, That compulsory morning prayers at Harvard should by abolished." The disputants will be, Messrs. Prentiss, '84, Root, '85, for the affirmative, and Messrs. E. A. Hibbard, '84, Hobson, '86, for the negative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/19/1883 | See Source »