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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871
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351 timony is that the presence of the young women has an excellent effect upon the young men, making them more mannerly, tractable, and ambitious. Dr. Welch, at whose institution in Ames, Iowa, there are fifty young women, declares that they are a most valuable adjunct in the management, with which he would not willingly dispense. Testimony is unanimous that there are fewer scandals of any sort in these colleges than in those where either sex is domiciled alone. And as to capacity for scientific learning, and also for many branches of actual work in the orchards, forests, green-houses, nurseries, and market-gardens, the young women everywhere equal and rival the young men. The experimenium crucis in college affairs, and one worthy of the great West, has, however, been made in Illinois and Iowa. The entire government of the College in each instance has been relegated by the Faculty to the students. The result has been that the colleges were never better governed. The students arrange for themselves a sort of semi-military organization, with a court somewhat like a court-martial, which tries offenders and pronounces the penalties for infraction of the laws of the organization. The Faculty has only to applaud the judgment thus far evinced in such trials and sentences, and the occasions for any trials at all have of late become very rare. But one fact need be added to complete the conspicuous novelty of this system of college government. The "dourt" in the Iowa College consists of five young men and two young women.
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