Word: coeducationalized
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The judgment that ministers should be men led America's early universities, which were essentially seminaries, to refuse admission to girls. Coeducation did not start until 1837, when Oberlin let some women in. By the turn of the century, Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler thought the battle...
Yet discuss it further is just what the student daily at all-male Princeton has lately been trying to do. "Coeducation is the solution for Princeton's social illness," argues the Daily Princetonian. Last week the paper got a chilly reply-no-from President Robert F. Goheen. Letting girls...
"To create coeducation at Exeter just because we thought it would be a good thing for the boys," he said, "would be a pretty rum thing for the girls."
Most of Exeter's faculty is reportedly undecided about coeducation. About 60 per cent of the senior class supported it in a recent poll. But the ultimate decision lies with the school's trustees, who will consider the proposal--and where the $3.5 million for the girls' campus is to...
Although the planning committee recognizes possible intrinsic merits of coeducation, its main argument, Irving said, is that "there does not now exist a coed or girls' boarding school of Exeter's size and facilities."