[Ads-l] Antedating of "Coeducational"

[Shapiro, Fred]

coeducational (OED 1881)

1858 Louisiana Courier 21 Oct. 2/2 (Newspapers.com)

Some of our northern cousins-in-law have just struck upon another nugget of social wisdom ... that the system of the separate education of young men and young women is wrong from the lowest root to the topmost branch. ... This new quickstep in the gigantic march of Yankee progress is a suggestive theme, but we will leave it here, awaiting the result and practical workings of the co-educational movement.

Fred Shapiro

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