"Coeducation has been a success"

It has been said that a nation is best measured by the position of its women. We can with equal truth say that our church is best measured by the character of its women ... Since co-education in general and at St. Olaf in particular has been a success, [and] since it is the duty of the ... Church to give its young women a higher education ... let co-education at St. Olaf be permanent.

— Viking 1905, pp. 29-30.