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 the mannerisms 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 End ourselves on a higher plane, 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 excellent in our better and nobler self,- Depauw University- 9

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Coedueation: it Larger Meanuigsn lk' l7R.XXClS ,lt 7llN hlCC1hlNNlfLl. PI't'SI.l71t'1lf Dt'Pt1zm' LTlI1iI'CI'Slif-X' k,1DQ,SQ,J YOUNG man recently wrote to the officelat De- Lx A lgauw to learn how he could get a coeducation. It 15 rather difhcult to know just what the young man 6 3 had in mind. Evidently he was not perpetrating a ci X7 joke, for his letter had all the marks of seriousness. f'K6j'Uf!'i Quite likely he had heard about DeI'auw as a co- educational school, and asked his question without thinking of what the word coeducation might mean. lVhat does coeclucation mean? Of course, we all know what it means as the word is ordinarily used,-the education of young men and women at the same institution, with the same courses open to each and the same classes open to each. lt is to the advantage of DePauw that it is a coeducational school in this customary sense of the word: the aim of the college is not merely to Ht men and women for the particular Fields which they are to occupy, but to give them a general, fundamental, cultural training, In a world where there are about as many women as men and about as many men as women, it would seem that the education of either men or women would be incomplete without an understanding. at least in a general way. of the problems of life from the standpoint both of man and woman. .-Xs a matter of fact, very careful observers have said that the general views of life which young people acquire in the coeducational school are apt to be much more helpful than the views which they obtain from the schools restricted to one sex or the other. Of course, there may be a great deal of the romantic in the relation of the young man and the young woman in college. but the romantic aspect is apt to be much healthier when the young man and young woman are meeting together day by day than when they meet only upon social occasions. The social meeting is hedged about by all sorts of convcutiiinalities, so that it is not possible for the young man clearly to understand the young woman or the young woman clearly to understand the young man if there is only a formal social meeting. In the coeducational school, on the other hand, the young man gets a chance to see the young woman in something else than a party dress, and with some manners other than her The young wonrm too frets to see the yonncf man . 5 f- -5 . 5 party manners. about as he is. He may look very handsome at 10:00 p. ni. at the formal society function. but he may be a complete tiunker at 10:00 a. m., and the young woman gets a chance to Find this out. If now it be said that one objection to coeducational schools is that so many marriages come from these schools, all we can say is that we do not know any other way in which young men and women can come to a just understanding of one another that is so commendable as meeting day by day in the class room. lt is not of coeducation, however, in this restricted sense that I wish to speak, Coeducation literally means something more than this: it means the education of people together, or in groups. Really this is the one true kind of education, To be sure, the scholar must have his moments when he withdraws to his study and to his laboratory. To be sure. there are some things that can only be