and
another, a first offender, to sixteen years for the same
offense. A study of codes on one hand and of sentences on
another reveals an amazing amount of contradiction and
confusion, not to say rank injustice, in the application of
penalties. For this inequality and injustice the
indeterminate sentence furnishes the necessary relief.
Instead of making the code-maker or the judge decide when a
man shall come out of prison, it puts the main
responsibility of deciding that question upon the prisoner
himself.

DOES COEDUCATION FEMINIZE COLLEGE?

Thorough Training, Rather than Separate
Training, is the Need of the
Times, Says President Jordan.

President David Starr Jordan, of Leland Stanford Junior University, has
ever been a strong advocate of coeducation. At the present time, when the
system is being so severely criticized in so many quarters, his defense of
it, which appears in _Munsey's Magazine_ for March, sounds a note of
reassurance. The article is an answer to an attack on coeducation--in the
February issue of the same magazine--by President G. Stanley Hall, of
Clark University.

To the charges that the character of college work has been lowered by
coeducation, and that it offers difficulties or embarrassments in the
class-room, Dr. Jordan replies with categorical denials. The argument that
the presence of women tends to "feminize" the universities is, he grants,
more serious. But he then enters into the following distinctions:

It has been feared that the admission of women to the
university would vitiate the masculinity of its standards;
that neatness of technique would impair boldness of
conception; and delicacy of taste replace soundness of
results. It is claimed that the preponderance of high school
educated women in ordinary society is showing some such
effects in matters of current opinion.

For example, it is claimed that the university extension
course is no longer of university nature. It is a lyceum
course designed to please women who enjoy a little poetry,
play, and music, who read the novels of the day, who dabble
in theosophy, Christian science, or psychology, who
cultivate their astral bodies and think there is something
in palmistry, and who are edified by a candy-coated ethics
of self-realization. There is nothing ruggedly true, nothing
masculine left in it.

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