Education: Softies?

In England a resolute band of males seceded from the National Union of Teachers, a few years ago, with the battle-cry : "More pay for men than for women." Feeling this to be rather specious, they later added : "Men teachers for boys," contending that the gentle influence of woman during a young hearty's formative years robbed him of his proper British hardihood, made him a "softie." Last year, Novelist H. G. Wells backed up this contention by notifying the U. S. that "coeducation in American universities is ruinous to youth and is 'sissifying.'...

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