At a recent meeting of the Yale Alumni Association in New York, Chauncey M. Depew, its newly elected president, said in the course of his address :
"At the late Harvard dinner President Eliot gave the key-note to the alumni of that university by dilating on the blessings of poverty to educational institutions. His plain meaning was that those who have their millions to spare should give them to Harvard, which has so large an endowment now that it cannot be harmed by receiving more, instead of to Yale, which is to be preserved by being kept poor. The question of the co-education of the sexes is attracting a good deal of attention just now. Old Columbia has been shaken to her foundations, and Dr. Dix has been almost driven from the island for opposing the higher education of women. I want to place it on record now and here that the Yale Alumni have no objection to the co-education of the sexes, and if there are any women who wish to join us the treasurer will gladly take their fees and the executive committee will elect them."
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