William Jewell College - Tatler Yearbook (Liberty, MO)

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Coed Courts Disaster Wearing Four Fraternity Pins In the l870's, not many colleges or universities in the United States would admit young women as well as young men. Ida Tarbell, who later became one of our greatest women journalists, relates experiences at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. Allegheny did not ofcourse admit women at the startg but the ferment caused by the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment, making it clear that only men were to be regarded as citizens, stirred the Allegheny constituents mightily. Allegheny's chief patron . . . was the Methodist Church , . . . Leaders among Methodist women had been abolitionists, aggressive temperance advocates, and now they became militant suffragists. Their influence began to tell. Ccon't p. 53

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n 1870, with misgivings in not afew minds, the admission of women to Allegheny was voted. This was the same year that the University of Michigan opened its doors to women, and two years before Cornell. In the six years before I entered ten women had graduated. When I came there were but two seniors, two juniors, and no sophomores. I was a lone freshman in a class of forty hostile or indifferent boys. The friendly . . . professor charged with the care of the young Ladies put it that I was 'cLost in the Wilderness of Boy. gig s ? 2 From the first I was dimly conscious that I was an invader, that there was abroad a spirit of masculinity challenging my right to be there, and there were taboos not to be disregarded .... The sloping green of the campus below Bentley HallCcon't P. 75