co-ed is wrong
...hat they could make no definite decision and so they left the matter entirely up to the Board of Trustees. By the Fall of 1893 coeducation was brought up continually in the Faculty Minutes and Reports of the Faculty to the Trustees. In June of 1894 the Faculty reported to the Trustees their position on coeducation at Beloit: ...the institution would be stimulated and its membership largely increased, if next September women should be admitted quietly and without ado. The whole trend of education, especially in the West, is toward coeducation, in this region we are looked upon as educational outlaws, while we maintain our present attitude toward this question. The Faculty admitted that the Beloit tradition of a "virile" education for men would be hard to change but "if there [were] women who [were] willing to work for this kind of education, who [would] prize it sufficiently to do a man's work to gain it, why not give them the chance?"29 And so the Faculty recommended the opening of the college to women. Student Opinion The students of Beloit College had as many diverse opinions regarding coeducation as the Faculty and Administration. From the 1870s to the 1890s the students voiced their opinions in public debates and speeches as well as in campus publications, such as the school newspaper, The Round Table. One early reference to the subject of coeducation is from November 1873, in The Beloit College Monthly, which preceded The Round Table. The writer mentioned with pride that Beloit and Racine were the only two colleges in the West that had not admitted women. Then, in October 1875, a student professed that coeducation is 'natural'. By 1877 there was a substantial debate among the students regarding coeducation. The Round Table published an ongoing debate between two young men who signed their editorials as "A.B.C." and "X.Y.Z." This debate lasted from Febr...