DePauw University - Mirage Yearbook (Greencastle, IN)

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similar self-love and Worshipful devotion. And so we will admit that our labor has sprung from, and has been animated by, an emotion which those more modest would symbolize as loyalty to our Alma Mater. We have striven by means of our mediocre talents, to perpetuate the memory of the good to be found in the life of our beloved college,- never attempting to criticize the bad, if there really be such. The remembrances of the great minds whose ener- gies have been poured out upon the altar of intellectual life here at DePauw are far too fresh in our memories to permit the slightest animadversion upon the methods and results of their worle. To be sure, we have occasionally criticized in a friendly way nnerisms of our fellow-students, but merely because we realize that N the life which is unexamined is not worth living. And at times we have taleen the liberty to caricature certain phases of Depauw student-life-not because we find ourselves on e, or vested with any particular censorial rights, but rather because we feel that the primary good of the non-professional educational institution of today comes from the comingling and interchanging of ideas and ideals during undergraduate life. lf, therefore, in the pages which follow there be found severities or crudities, we asle only that it be remembered that our effort has been to minimize the importance of the lesser, or individual self, in order to emphasize the qualities which we deem so nd nobler self,- DePauw University. the ma a higher plan excellent in our better a 9

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Cot-zducationz it Large eaningsn 111' FRPXNCIS QIOIIN 1X1'cCONN1E1'.1, Pl't'.YI'lI'C'lIl Dv1'z111af U llI.'Z't'7'SI'fj' YOUNG 1112111 recently wrote to tl1e office at De- x CQ 4 - . Vjfgg 'I 1'auw to learn 11ow l1e co11ld get a coeducatiou. It J s 1 llllil difficult to know iust wl1at the young 111 Ill ll lllllltl 1'v1dLntly l1e was 11ot pcipctiating a X yoke foi his lettei had 111 tl1e 111'1.l1xQ of sci iousncss fo r 'Gad Cuite likely 11e llilfl l1eard about DePauw as a co- 1 14111 1 educational school, and asked l11s question w1tl1out lllllllxlllg of what the word HCOCt1l1CZlt1Ol1U 111igl1t lllCfll1. XVhat does HC0CC1llC21110l1,, 111ea it 111911115 as the word is ordinarily used,--tl1e education ot young vith tl1e SZIINC COIIYSCS ope11 h. lt is to tl1e advantage 11001 i11 tl1is C11St0l1'1Zll'y se11se of tl1e word: tl1e 211111 of the college is 11ot merely to fit 111611 and wo111e11 for the particular Helds which tl1ey are to occupy, bllt to give them It general, fuiidaniental, cultural training. 111 21 W01'lfl bout as ,wmv women as 111011 Zlllil about as lllillly ll ll that tl1e CC11lCZ'tl.1Oll of either men or 11? Of course, we all know what lllCl1 and XV-0111011 at tl1e same institution, 1 to eacl1 Zllltl tl1e same classes ope11 to C216 of DePauw tl1at it is a coedueatioiial sc wl1ere there are a lllCl1 as women, it won c seei ' 1 ' I women would be incomplete w1tl1o11t an l1l1C1Cl'S1ZlI1Clll1g. .at 'cast 112 011161115 of life fiom thc standpoint Joti o a QCIICFZI1 way, of tl1e pr I 1111111 a11d XV0ll'lZlll. As a l1lZ11fCl' of fact. VCU' Cm-Cful 013501 Yel S. mlm said that tl1e general views of life wl11cl1 young people acqune 111 1 TC 1 be 111uc11 ll101'C helpful than tl1e cocdncatio11al school are api' if views wl1icl1 they obtain 'from tl1e 50110018 restricted to 011C sex or the mlm.. of mm-SC, 11101-C may be a great deal of tl1e I'Ol11Z1l1tlC i11 tl1e relation of 111C young man Zllltl tl1e young XV0ll'1Z1ll i11 college, but tl1e ro111a11tic aspect is apt to be 11111cl1 l1ealtl1ier wl1e11 tl1e yo1111g 1112111 a11d young 0101111111 are ineeting together day by dai' than wl1e11 they meet only upon social occasions. The social meeting is hedged about by all sorts of conventionalities, so tl1at it is 1101 possible for tl1e young 1112111 clearly to understand tl1e yo1111g woman or tl1e young NV0lllZll'l clearly to llllt1Cl'!-21211111 the young 1112111 if tl1ere is only a forinal social meeting. ln tl1e coeducational school, 011 the other hand, the young 111a11 gets a chance to see the yOll11Q wo111a11 i11 something else tl1a11 a party dress, a11d with so111e ll12lllllCl'S other tl1a11 l1er party manners. The y0ll11Q' woman, too, gets to see the young man about as l1e is. llc lllay look very handsoine at 10:00 p. 111. at the formal society function. but l1e may be a complete llunker at 10:00 a. 111., a11d tl1e yo1111g XVOIHZII1 gets a chance to find this out. lf IIOXV it be said tl1at 0110 objection to coeducational schools is tl1at so lllilllv 1T1Z1.l'1'1ZlQ'CS come from t11ese schools, all we C2111 say is that we do 11012 1ill0XV Zllly 0111C1' way i11 which young 111e11 211111 women C2111 001110 to a just lllll1Cl'S1ZlI1t11llQ' of o11e another tl1at is so comniendable as meeting day by day i11 the class room. it is 1101 of coeducatioii, 11owever, i11 this restricted sense that 1 wish to speak. Coiedncatioii literally means something more tl1a11 tl1is: it 111ea11s tl1e education of people 1'0,Q'C1111Cl', or i11 groups. Really this is tl1e o11e true kind of education, To be sure, tl1e selmlm- nmgt 11Z'tVC his 111011101115 when 11e withdraws to l1is study and to his laboratory. 'To be sure, tl1ere are some things that- C2111 only be