Administrators Disagree On Women's Education

Four college administrators disagreed strongly last night on the problems and purposes of education for women in today's "rapidly changing" society. The panel discussion, held in New Lecture Hall, was sponsored by the Harvard Law School.

According to Alice G. Pannell, President of Sweet Briar College, "the basic need for women's education in the 20th century is to realize the problems of the age of science and space." She called for American women to cooperate rather than compete with men and cited the importance of women "in reducing the manpower shortage."

"We must use women far more effectively than in the past to meet the challenge of Russian scientific achievement," President Pannell asserted.

An oupposing view was presented by Harold Taylor, President of Sarah Lawrence College. He criticized the description of women as "manpower," suggesting that women's education should not yield to "the demands of public opinion."

Discuss Co-education

Part of the forum hinged on a discussion of the relative merits of co-education and separate education, with opposing view-points offered by two members of the panel.

As chairman and moderator, Mildred McA. Horton, former president of Wellesley College, expressed the opinion that women's opportunities are inhibited on a co-educational campus. "Some of the most ardent believers in equal opportunity think education is better on separate campuses," she commented.

Differing sharply with Mrs. Harton, William E. Stevenson, President of Oberlin College, replied that co-education "is education for life." He added.