University of Virginia Library

Anti-Coed

Concerning the CD's most recent
editorial attempts to agitate
the co-education question, I would
like to make the following observations:

Those who find the social limitations
of an all-male school unbearably
frustrating should never elect
to attend such a school. Conversely,
those, including myself, who
find day-to-day contact with the
opposite sex inhibiting to full
academic involvement, should constitute
the student bodies of all-male
schools. The distressing outlook
is that those over-zealous exponents
of full nationwide coeducation
may soon deprive the
students in the latter category of
a school they can attend in "happiness."

Second, the March 6 article related
to this subject states, "American
colleges and universities
are yielding... to the pressure
of women eager to assert their
rights to equal education, to dispel
the myth of intellectual inferiority
-and to find the best husbands
they can." The women can assert
these rights at a preponderance of
American colleges. The intellectual
capabilities of women have never
seriously been questioned by all-male
schools and, in fact, the
women's schools themselves-the
"Seven Sisters" being the prime
example-radiate an aura of intellectual
superiority. And I doubt
that by going to school with men
the young ladies can find the best
marriageable material. For to say,
in support of this, that "80 per
cent of the Cliffies marry Harvard
men" is only to point out
the facility, not the desirability,
of such marriages.

Co-education, contrary to your
editorial pronouncement, is still
very much debatable.