The current Nation contains a very sensible article on the higher education of women, which cannot fail to interest all students who look upon this question with impartial eyes. For however we may attempt to disguise the fact, the question is becoming more and more a vital one for educational institutions. The recent attempt to introduce women into Columbia College is but one of the many indications of the feeling at present pervading the country Although we cannot believe that the experiments at Ann Arbor and Cornell have as yet received sufficient trial to prove the ultimate success of a system of complete co-education, still such institutions as the Harvard Annex and Girton, young as they are, have proved that the opposition urged to the higher education of women must soon be a thing of the past. The general impression seems to be that Columbia will make some sort of provision for women, and we hope soon to be able to welcome at least a Columbia "Annex."
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