Excerpt from Seventeen Years in Harrisburg: A Look Backward
It occurs to me in closing this fragmentary talk that there is one other thing that ought to be mentioned as further demonstrating our progress during the last seventeen years. I refer to the system of education. When I came to Harris burg there were two high schools - one for the boys and another for the girls - and it is not so long ago that you can not recall the storm that was created by the suggestion of co education in the High School. 'but co-education came and who is there to-day who would return to the old system. A school ought to be like a home, where the boys and girls see much of each other and where the refining in uence of the sister is observed in the character of the brother. There is no good reason to be advanced for separating the girls and boys of the same age and attainments. There has been a long stride forward also in the character of the school build ings as in the character of our residences. May we not hope that the school authorities will now give the same considera tion to the health of the children as they give to their studies so that there may be no cramming and the girls and boys may develop physically as well as mentally.
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