Until Bryn Mawr opened in 1885 with a large staff of young unmarried
men, it had been regarded as almost out of the question to appoint
unmarried men in a women’s college; now they are teaching in all
colleges for women. The same instructors pass from colleges for men to
colleges for women and from colleges for women to colleges for men,
employing in each the same methods of instruction. Some years since
one of the professors at Smith college received at the same time
offers of a post at the Johns Hopkins, at Columbia, and at Bryn Mawr;
and among the professors the most successful in their teaching at
Princeton, Chicago and Columbia are men whose whole experience had
been gained in teaching women at Bryn Mawr.
Footnote 28:
The following data have been furnished me by the courtesy of the
presidents or deans of the colleges concerned, except the data of the
H. Sophie Newcomb memorial college, for which I am indebted to
Professor Evelyn Ordway. These data are for the year 1900; the numbers
of instructors and students have been obtained from the catalogues for
1898–99.
Footnote 29:
In one instance only—that of Evelyn college in New Jersey—has an
affiliated college, once established, been compelled to close its
doors. Evelyn, however, partook of the nature of a private enterprise
school, and was begun on an unacademic basis in 1887. A certain number
of Princeton professors consented to serve on the board of trustees
and give instruction there, but it was, in reality, a young ladies’
finishing school with a few students (in 1891, 22; in 1894, 18; in
1897, 14) pursuing collegiate courses. Music and accomplishments were
made much of, and in 1897 the college came to a well-merited end.
Footnote 30:
Radcliffe and Barnard are the only two of the affiliated colleges that
appear in the U. S. education reports in division A of women’s
colleges. The students of the other three are reported under Brown,
Western reserve and Tulane respectively, thus giving these colleges a
false air of being coeducational in their undergraduate departments.
The endowment and equipment of these three affiliated colleges,
although entirely independent of the colleges to which they are
affiliated, are given nowhere separately.
Footnote 31:
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