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A GREATER WORK proposed that qualified women be admitted to College classes; his colleagues defeated the motion. In the same month, the College Monthly observed that "co-education seems to be meeting with more and more favor." More than one hundred colleges had already adopted it and it was the progressive thing to do. A year later, the faculty advised the board of trustees that there were women in the preparatory department who were qualified to become College students. What should be done if any applied? Hay presented his motion again; John W. Rice offered the time-honored substitute motion to delay by appointing a committee to seek more information "from all accessible sources"; and then a majority of trustees decided that the time had come to act. Hay's motion prevailed. The first woman student in the College proper, Beulah M. Tipton, was not enrolled until the fall of 1888. She was not the first to complete the course. That honor was shared by Cora E. Hartman and Margaret R. Himes, both of whom were graduated in June 1894. By June 1904 some sixty-seven women had been enrolled and seventeen of these had received bachelor's degrees. More than half of the women students who entered before 1900 dropped out after one or Most of the seventeen women students enrolled for the 1902-1903 year posed for this picture. 30