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but those operated on strictly pious principles. We will per
mit no engineers, miners, or electricians to develop our coun
try unless they know their catechism. Their university train
ing is pernicious, let us give their work into the hands of the.
elect.
This principle should.be applied to our law courts} our
hospitals, and óur politics,, indeed to any of the fields of activ
ity to enter which requires long years of higher education.? It
is a poor law that cannot be based on fundamental application.
Co-eds and the
Franchise
In à recent meeting of the Women of the
of Càlifornia resolutions were
passed to combat the plan of the men for
the disfranchisement of the women. It was agreed that 'the
women take hereafter vigorous part in the affairs of the stur
dent body, arid interest themselves in its executive control.
These are interesting manifestations of the feminine mind bent
on getting its rights. The situationjn California is not dis
similar to that of other cp-educational .colleges. Women are
given equal privileges in the start and equal opportunities for
public service. . Ä languid interest is takenfor a time, which is
latter absorbed in the maddening revolutions^of the social
whirl, or in the maintenance of. popularity. Student body af
fairs occupy the smallest, fraction of feminine attention. Final
ly the real workers get tired and think up some plan to throw
out the drones. The-men, who as a rule comprise the form
er class, propose to disfranchise the women. The women
then rise mightily in wrath and indignation. But it is usual
ly their own fault. : Of course, many of the men are 'idlers
too, but the main workers have no time for discrimination.
This is the inevitable end unless the women interest them
selves actively and intelligently in student-body affairs. " In
a few months elections will be upon us. Let the trouble
in California be a warning against neutral, half-heartedness
on the part of the students at,: large, and the feminine under
graduate in particular.
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