State Superintendent of Public Instruction Henry H.Van Dyck demolished its last hope when he demanded with outstretched arm and pointed finger: "Do you mean to say you want the boys and girls to room side by side in dormitories?
To educate them together can have but one result!" The Binghamton Daily Republican said: "Miss Anthony vindicated her resolutions with eloquence, force, spirit and dignity, and showed herself a match, at least, in debate for any member of the convention.
She was equal if not identical.

Whatever may be thought of her notions or sense of propriety in her bold and conspicuous position, personally, intellectually and socially speaking, there can be but one opinion as to her superior energy, ability and moral courage; and she may well be regarded as an evangel and heroine by her own sex." The woman who advocated co-education in those days was indeed in a "bold and conspicuous position." The resolutions were lost by a large majority.

Even if every man present had voted against them, there were enough women to have carried them had they voted in the affirmative.
The Republican said: "If the lady members had voted so as to be heard we know not what would have been the result; but their voices, to say the least, have not been ordained by the Creator to be equal or identical with man's, and are drowned by his louder sounds." Mrs.
Stanton's opinion can best be learned by an extract from a letter: I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them.

The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better.