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Educational Opportunity

One might expect that any girl
faced with the opportunity to attend
Mr. Jefferson's institution
would jump at the chance. While
many of these girls felt that coeducation
was needed, (one pretty
blonde to the contrary however)
they didn't feel as though we,
meaning the male population, were
doing them any favors by allowing
coeducation to come.

The spectrum of girls ranged
from those with coeducational
backgrounds to those without,
from graduates to undergraduates,
and from pro-coeducation to
anti-coeducation. In other words,
these five girls represented the entire
field of thought on the subject.