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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY ,13, 1921 on Want o So Declare Male Undergraduates, "Because Co-Eds Make Colleges Effeminate," But DO They I lege I llr -.-.w-. . -v I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I 1 I I I I IH. 1 IIIItlltlllllltlllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Tn-Ci-rJat-- - f. I -"- & V N. i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i t l i t i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i 1 1 1 1 i i i i i - , ,x ::.:::.-. :-x v . m .:-... - . . i--iti. ; - . I I I I I I I i i I I I I 1 I I I I 1 I 1 I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I i. x jPav.-.-m . w v':-i...vJl B:7- -..v. -f--. "' 54 "'r' tndemt la ortkwet coliegea are trnkin to lacrosse wltfc dash and Tim. Tie photoirrapk shows in - . V j C-t-1 ' fv ereltlna; play near the goal month. jP f Photograph by Kadel & Herbert. i , dia? ' w rr : ft ' . v II i ' - ' - 'III evervthinr Is dons from the view- tamiy not! I might venture so far - Sjg pkS - " t1J' A U J I ft - AV(V VV t V as to assert that the men like the I U tf ftSht. 4f?l 1 C- l XL i H . r-, .v-rr v ;,v f f ship fe I fcj; ri Baraard eollece s;irls play real baseball. Here Is the Babe Ruth of the Bsr aard s;lrls team slammlaar a hot one on the aose for a home run. BT ETHEL THURSTON. S CO-EDUCATION doomed? Is the feminine face and form and charm and gentle -influence soon to be blotted out of the co-ed Institution? Will the next decade see the re establishment of separate education for the men' and women of the na tion? Or is the clamor that college men are raising against the pres ence in their alma mater of their sisters merely the empty vaporings of minds seeking such an outlet from the cramped and cabined pursuit of higher education? men hissed. And they hissed again when co-eda were mentioned in a song. "Kegular enakes," hissed a co-ed. The "Pro and Con" of It. The opponents of oo-educatlon have many supporters outside their own number. Some of them give weighty arguments. One such is Dr. William Westley Guth, president of Goucher college at Baltimore,' Mi, which is one of the six first-class bmen col leges of this country. He says: "In the co-educational institution evervthincr Is dons from the view- We don't want girls In our col- point of meni and women receive the 1 chorus under graduates at Cornell and other bi co-ed Institutions. "They make , us effeminate. They cause a dcteriora tion in our athletic caliber. Must th glorious record achieved in football and baseball in the past be dimmed because of this inseep of women Out with them! Let them go to Bar rard, Vassar, where they will. They exercise the wrong kind of Influence and really do not belong among us. Lest anyone be so benighted as to Picture this girl they are trying to put out as one in somber garb with eteel spectacles and "psyche" and derby hat and mannish clothes, the accompanying pictures, snapped in the habitat of the fair interloper, were secured for this page. To look at them closely one might suspect that the old green-eyed monster Prowls about the cot o' nights of these college boys. For instance, why not kick with this fair kicker? She knew herself how to kick. And kick she did, far above the mark set by the envious one In gridiron accou trement whose effort was Quite feeble compared with hers. Look at the action pictures of these cjirl college students. The objects that look like dummies in the picture are plump and pretty girls being passed over the heads of lines of their fellow students In the gentle game of "pass the buck." Do the boastful students of the "for men only" institutions indulge In sport more strenuous? And see the action in that lacrosse game herewith de picted. The Indians! themselves In distant Canada never disclosed more Pep and vigor in this, their native game. And as for baseball! That leather pellet flattened against the girl student's bat seems just about as happy as one impinged against the mighty ash of the great Babe Ruth and no more so. , But hers are some of the grave charges made against the co-eds at Cornnell: They go to movies with the men. They go coasting on sleds .with the men. They walk with them o' nights in Forest Home walk. They win places on the college or gans. They attend quiet little "house par ties" given by the men. They join In student parades. They sing the college songs in pub licon ferryboats! They want to be athletic managers. These are the charges. The results re almost beyond credibility. Why, recently, when the picture of Sage college, a woman's dormitory, was flashed on ths screen in Bailey ball, Cornell, would you believt it, th sort of education that men, who are more enthusiastic about the educa tion of the male sex than they are about higher opportunities for worn en, can give her. On the other hand, In a college exclusively for women everything is done from the view point of women. A higher education of a cultural sort is afforded the stu dents, but special attention is given to developing initiative, responsibil Ity and keenness of vision, and the results are remarkable. "A preat many men, even educators, look upon the higher education of women from the point of view of something that might be beneficial for them in the event of their having to earn a living a sort of glorifi cation of the finishing school Idea which permeates the south. The proper method Is to afford a cultural course in the fundamentals of edu cation to prepare them for life In general and give them a broad vision so that whether they become busi ness women, wives and mothers, or first one and then the other, they will be able to perform their func tions after the highest ideals and with the greatest efficiency. Prom such colleges as the one of which I am the president women go forth, as do men, into the Profes sional life. There is a great demand for college-educated men, particularly In social service problems of reform and eivlo righteousness and the whole line of social service all over the country is demanding college trained women. We find them also as helpers in medicine, doing very im portant research work, and among our best statisticians are the gradu ates of women's colleges, for women have an infinite patience with details which has never been attained by their brothers." The learned President Guth to the contrary. Dean Virginia C Glider sleeve of Barnard has ideas of her own on the subject. She says: "The engineering and law schools are the only professional schools not open to women, and, while there has never been any desire on the part of our students to enter the former, we have numbers of girls each year who would like to enter the Columbia law school. "We feel that Columbia has one of the best law schools in the country, and we are naturally anxious that women should have ths advantage of the training. Law faculties are nat urally conservative. Harvard is still excluding women, but Tals has re cently admitted them. "The Barnard faculty recently adopted a set of resolutions and pre sented them to the Columbia law faculty, I understand that they, are now carefully considering the mat ter. The admission of women will come sometime, of course. I hope soon." At Columbia, in the school of jour nalism, women are quite welcome. "We haven't any problem of co- tducation here," said Professor Ed ward C. Cooper, pushing back a pile of manuscripts full of today's fresh est news. "We have it, you under stand, but it isn't any problem. "Any antipathy on the part of the men for the women students? Cer tainly not! I might venture so far as to assert that the men like the vomen students. In fact, the whole school enjoys the contribution of the young women. "Our men students come from all parts of the United States, some of them quite mature, with considerable newspaper experience. And they all fc'et on with the feminine contingent very pleasantly. Our girls are a clev er, nice lot and carry their end of wcrk as worthy individuals, with never a thought of leaning for help on ths men." "Is this matter of co-education for under graduates necessarily a geo graphical thing?" Professor Walsh it. the Columbia school of architec ture, was asked., "Or do you allow muse Biuoenis unencumbered by a cegree to work along with the men?" "Yes, we have undergraduate stud ents," Professor Walsh answered. "No. I don't think co-education is ceo- grapnical. The western universities. where co-education is so distinctly successful, started at a time when co education seemed entirely natural. There were no traditions to the contrary. 'But the eastern colleges for mnn. which had been established for 50 or 100 years before there was any Detl- tion for women to enter,- naturally couldn't change their traditions over night When we recall the little group of old New Yorkers who fnnni 4 tif4S!''IS' Photograph by Ka-Jel & Herbert. "Passing the buck." This form of racing is popular among the girls In French colleges. The three girls held hori zontally do not seem to mind thia strenuous handling. The one who, when passed from hand to hand, reaches the end of the line first wins the race. King's college in 1754, we can see that Columbia has come a long way from the early idea. "But in architecture there isn't any discrimination, in the profession, be tween the sexes. Some of our women graduates have gone into the pro fession by themselves and made a corking success of it. And they get on well with the men in classes. 'Most women from our school here go into Interior decorating. But the men, while they objected at first to the introduction of women, saying t.-'.at they would have to manicure teir language, now like working with them." . .But those who support the agitation to drive the women out of what they cay used to be "he-men" colleges, have another obstacle to overcome, quite an impediment, too, as Impedi ments go. This is the law. Par ticularly pertinent is this problem to the women student haters at Cornell, m 1S73 the trustees of this institution accepted a not inconsiderable gift from Henry W. Sage with the express understanding that the college should open its doors to women who should lecelve instruction "as broad and as thorough as that now afforded the men." Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dix- Photo by Underwood & Underwood. Compare this easy and spacefill hitch kicking by Mhi Mna WhKmore ivlth that of Walter French, the fa mous athlete and WkM hnlf-hark of the Rutgers college team. on White, founder and first president, accepted this pact. Now. how could he institution break free from those l.-on bonds of honor? Yet the seniors at Cornell continue to cry out against the idea und these are some of their published senti ments: "Co-education has no defense; any attempt to justify it degenerates into an apology. It was an accident; it is cheap and therefore is a failure, ac cepted where cheapness and ex pediency hold sway. In fairness to women in search of higher education and in fairness to men it should be and in due time will be abolished. "Women should be provided with proper schools of their own and not d.-agged through the co-educational process. I; lias absolutely no associa tion with women's rights as some small minds are inclined to Imply. It should be properly associated with women's wrongs, or more clearly, wrongs- to women." But as long as co-education is at Cornell and "cannot at once be turned out," the undergraduate leaders rec ommend limiting the proportioning cf women students until a separate women's college can be created. There are 60 per cent more women In the college of liberal arts at Cor nell now than there were In the whole university ten years ago. "With women on all of the publica tions excepting the widow," continues the tirade, "with women leading foot ball rallies and singing Cornell songs on New York ferryboats, the real dan ger Is not with us yet. The real dan cer is that unless something is done we shall never be able to check the idea that Cornell is a woman's college Instead of a 'he-man' Institution." NEW GERMANY IS CAPTURED BY CULT OF NAKED WOMEN DANCERS Clothesless Terpsrchoreana Skip and Wriggle at Private Parties as Latest Cultural Achievement and , Aesthetic Movement in the Teuton Nation. "Nature cabarets, "dieles" and "Amerlkanische TT OPEFUL Prussia has got one , trou I I consolation for the vexations f Dancers" (equally bare) and "Beauty bars." in the profiteering Kurf uer- Vers, illM an1 tli. Dnsan, . ,, . , ... . . . . . . . ,. . vuitcij twuo woma De Darer were I stenaamm pari oi v est uerun, wnere Spa. It is Naked Dancing Die Nackttanz! Ladies' naturally. Naked dancers hop, sprawl and squirm In bad, writes Edward L. Bryne from Berlin to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Berlin's cabarets and "dieles," and naked dancers, too mod est to show their blushful actual selves to a blushless, gloating, Ger man public, scintillate and dazzle from moving-picture films. Naked dancers skip and wriggle at private parties. Smart war profiteers trot them on', to their friends after bright little dinners, as the latest cultural achievement of kultur and the aes thetic movement in .the new Germany. It's good business. Naked Celly de Rheidt, naked Pussy semole, the "In dian Naked Dancers" and ten other it possible) are the best-paid artists on the Prussian stage today. Nat urally ! Serious theaters are empty in Ber lin; solemn Professor Max Relnhardt has abandoned his because he. can't mAke its ends meet; and one famous Munich playhouse w'll close next month. Bare skin is the only prof itable medium of art in the new Germany. Big Profit In Bare Sklna. It is profitable because, of course, nobody would dream of dancing naked in a rusty middle-class old theater where citizens, already sucked dry by Erzberger's emergency levy, pay a mere 20 marks for a threadbare seat. One dances naked only in brand-new. high-flying- restaurant, you pay a hundred marks to stick your nose past the door, 200 for an indifferent dinner and 400 for a bottle of French champagne made in a fa mous vintage year of Brandenburg parsnips, sweetened with sugar pro duced from sawdust soaked in nitric acid. And because she dances only for such small, superior public bare Fraulein Celly de Rheidt draws as much cash in an evening as would cover Rhelnhardt's deficit for a week. Of course, they don't dance abso lutely, absolutely naked; but there is less than a suggestion of clothing. Further, psyche-like Celly and all other naked dancer; of the highest flight affect the esoteric and aesthet ically suggestive. Therefore they dance as a rule only in pale green. pal azure or pals lilac light. They affect green most of all. That makes them look colllcky, melancholy, spir itual, post-impressionistic and degen erate, if not proper. Prancing Celly recalls the livery pictures of the Ba varian, Frank von Stuck. If she pranced In ordinary hard limelight or In the rosy, Aurorean twilight sung by Swinburne and Baudelaire, she would look pretty and simple; .people would be shocked and the crowd which can afford to pay 400 marks for French champagne made of Prus sian sawdust would wax so vast and tumultuous that the police would have to keep disorder. But the police never meddle. Every Berlin poster-pillar sports the eftigy of bare, silly Celly or bare Pussy Semole or some other sinful, skinful dancer. Even prudes do not protest. The reason is that they have been philosophized into acquiescence by the professors, who have evolved out of naked dancing a high art and still higher science. Prussia is a land of professors. Professors Kant and Schopenhaur moralized It; Professor Nietzsche demoralized It, and Profes sors Adolph Wagner and Gustav Schmoller drove It to war. And now, weary of politics, poison gas, air raids and kultur, the pro fessors have taken up frantically cachet of scholarship. Intensity and mystery, exalted It into a cult. The revolution changed things. To day one can dance In public as naked as a candle flame and no police chief dares a word. naked dancing, given It an academic ! poaal, Health Probe Proposed. WASHINGTON. A proposal that the American Legion and the United States public health service together undertake the physical examination of all the ex-service men in some one state has been made by Dr. Haven Emerson, the new chief medical ad visor of the bureau of war risk in surance. This census would serve as a basis in estimating the total num ber of disabled ex-service men in the whole country. Dr. Emerson proposes to hold the state census as a preliminary to a thorough physical examination of all the 5,000,000 men and women who served in the army, navy and marine corps in the world war. If the project is carried out It is said that it will require practically as much time and money as the war time draft, which involved the labor of many thousand draft officials and cost $30,000,000. The legion has not yet announced its stand on the pro