Investigations made by the :University of Wis consin, and in 1893-94 by the University of Virginia. have shown that in coeducational in stitutions, according to testimony gathered in the United States and England, women equal or even surpass men in excellence of scholarship. Up 189$ per, cent. of the women taking examinations for matriculation at the University of London had passed, as against 53 per cent. of men for the same period. Nor has the percent age of withdrawals from college on account of health been greater with women than with men. Investigations into the health, etc., of college women are given under COLLEGIATE EDUCATION FOE WOMEN. In the \Vest, where coeducation is practically universal, no evil consequences have sprung from it. and there is but slight demand for separate schools. The main objection of both male and female students to coeducation is that it implies more restraint than exists where the sexes are apart. Of the many arguments for coeducation. doubtless that of economy has been most effective. It is noteworthy that in a report of the -Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women the fact that the Uni versity of California had a preponderance of women students was taken as a sign of the need for a separate college. Indeed, it may be said
that having won, in most cases, their contention for admission to institutions for men, the advo cates of higher education for women are turning their attention more and more toward separate schools, and that the privilege of separate edu cation is. particularly in the East, coming to be sought and preferred by women rather than by men. Consult: Clarke, Sc.r in Education (Bos ton, 18731; Fairehild, "Coeducation of the Sexes." in Report of United States Commissioner of Education (Washington. 1898), and Circular of Informatim), No. 2 (1883). on coeducation in the public schools: A. Solman Smith, "Co education of the Sexes in the United States," with bibliography, in Report of United States Commissioner of Education (Washington, 1891 92) ; "Coeducation," in Report of United States Commissioner of Education (Washington. 1894 95).