Self-surveys by colleges and universities . have rejected segregation so far as attend-ance at most private colleges is concerned and at practicallyevery publicly supported institution, as in every high schoolwhere city funds do not permit equal facilities for bothsexes, is no reason why segregation should not be adoptedwithin a college wherever separation of sexes will benefitmen and women alike or either of them. Nobody expects a coeducational institution to have mixedclasses in gymnasium work. Only now and then does anyone suggest mixed classes in sex hygiene. No serious ob-jection will be
Self-surveys by colleges and universities . have rejected segregation so far as attend-ance at most private colleges is concerned and at practicallyevery publicly supported institution, as in every high schoolwhere city funds do not permit equal facilities for bothsexes, is no reason why segregation should not be adoptedwithin a college wherever separation of sexes will benefitmen and women alike or either of them. Nobody expects a coeducational institution to have mixedclasses in gymnasium work. Only now and then does anyone suggest mixed classes in sex hygiene. No serious ob-jection will be raised to experiments which will answerseveral questions now troubling students of college instruc-tion : 1. Is it true, as many teachers of English maintain, thatmen students are so self-conscious in English coursesthat they avoid such courses rather than exhibit towomen students their efforts to improve self-expres-sion? A^... /... 2. Is it true that for similar reasons women evadeclasses where success depends upon discussion, as in. Sex segregation via iiitcrcsl scKrcKili (;ililoriii;i Coeducation perm lis sex segregation too How Certain Courses Affect Sexes 321 economics, political science, sociology? How men and women elect subjectscan easily be learned. Whether their reason forevading subjects is the presence of the other sex canbe learned partially by comparing electives in educa-tional and coeducational institutions, but best of allby experimentation within each Is it possible that even where in a large lecture sec-tion sexes are advantageously combined they wouldbe more profitably quizzed on these lectures in sepa-rate sections? 113. The Junior College Two different conditions are being called junior college:a segregated college of under classmen within a college oruniversity which for administrative and instructional pur-poses draws a line between the comparative immaturity offreshmen and sophomores, and comparative maturity ofjuniors an
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