THE
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<!fbttnrtal It takes three schools to make the University of Richmond; no one of them has a right to monopolize either that name or the rights and prerequisites pertaining to special prominence. There was a time perhaps when we were not equal, when man went out into the world or to college and did things, and woman stayed at home and made things all right for him if he did them wrong. But that idea is out of date, to say the least - there are three entities here that should stand together and make of the whole man, woman and the University, the latter last because it can only exist through the co-operation and responsibility of the two former. Calling an institution a certain name does not make it what it is called. There has been too much shirking of mutual duties and unwillingness to share mutual pleasures and good-will in the past of this school. People have even gone so far as to state positively that co-operation within our own boundaries was impossible, but it cannot be that this is really so. Westhampton complains that Richmond College is unwilling to allow her her just part in University activities, in work and in praise due for work; Richmond College men feel that the girls do not deserve more than they get because they are prone to leave everything undone until some future day and hope that in the meantime the boys will do it. The Law School thinks - and it is natural - that they are not considered by the other colleges as part of the University system, that they are rather out of things. These are very deep-rooted prejudices and strong barriers in the way of real friendship and understanding that will make for closer unity. It is indeed a difficult situation and one that must be approached with patience and a regard for the opinions of others. It is, however, one that has run on long enough, and has been sufficiently deplored, for everyone to agree that it is time to change. Why cannot we do something about it now, and pave the way for real and true co-operation this year and through the years to come?