In the western states it will be observed there are, excluding Roman
Catholic colleges and seminaries, out of 195 colleges 182
coeducational and only 13 colleges for men only. All of these except
3 are denominational; 6 belong to the Lutheran, 1 to the Dutch
Reformed, 1 to the German Evangelical, 1 to the Episcopalian, and 1
to the Congregationalist. The other 3 are, as we might expect, in
the most eastern and the earliest settled of the western states; one
in Ohio, Western reserve, which teaches women in a separate women’s
college; one in Indiana, Wabash college, one of the three most
important colleges in Indiana; and one in Illinois, Illinois
college. Roman Catholic institutions apart, in 14 states and all 3
territories every college for men is open to women (the one
university of the territory of New Mexico, not included in the U. S.
education report, is open to women). In the southern states and
southern middle states there are, excluding Roman Catholic colleges
and seminaries, out of 161, 125 coeducational and only 36 colleges
for men only. Among these 36, however, are the most important
educational institution in Maryland, the Johns Hopkins university;
the most important in Georgia, the University of Georgia; in
Louisiana the two most important, the Louisiana state university and
Tulane university, and in Virginia the very important University of
Virginia.[8] Roman Catholic institutions apart, all the colleges in
the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and West Virginia are
coeducational. In New England and the northern middle states out of
64 colleges, excluding Roman Catholic colleges and seminaries, only
29, or less than half, are coeducational. The colleges for men only
include (with the exception of Cornell) all the largest
undergraduate colleges in this section—Harvard, Yale, Columbia,
Princeton, Pennsylvania. Maine and Vermont are liberal to women, 2
colleges (3 if we count the limited coeducational college of Colby)
in Maine and 3 in Vermont being coeducational, but the total number
of students in college in these states is very small (in Maine only
843 men and 189 women; in Vermont only 301 men and 99 women). The
leading colleges of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania are closed, and in Massachusetts only 2 are
open and 7 closed.[9]
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