fit him for the harder, sterner duties of life, to
which ladies should never be driven except in
cases of exigency. Because women are not
taught quaternions and metaphysics, it does
not follow that their opportunities arc inferior,
any more than it follows from the fact that
women are not admitted’to West Point or An
napolis, that their qualifications are inferior to
those of men. They are simply so physically
and mentally constituted that they should not
be called to perform certain duties in life. Of
course there are geniuses in both sexes. They
should be educated for what their gift adapts
them, regardless of sex. Genius makes its
own rule in such cases.
It is a serious question also whether, excep
tions aside, the full college curriculum in some
of. its abstract and severe branches does not
put too heavy a strain upon the health and vi
tality of young women without any compen
sating advantage. She cannot afford to risk
her health in acquiring a knowledge of the
advanced sciences, mathematics or philosophy,
for which she has no use. We cannot disre
gard the continual cries of warning from phy
sicians on this subject, Too many women
have already made themselves permanent in
valids by an overstrain of study at schools and
colleges. Talk of the sweet girl graduate,
you will find that most of them who go through
a college course, graduate with a weak consti
tution.
Another serious question in educating the
sexes together is, whether at the average sus
ceptible age of American college life, say from
seventeen to twenty-one, it is promotive of
female delicacy and refinement to be mingled
with the average collegian in classes, for four
years, in the ordinary experiences in and around
class-rooms. For ourselves we say emphatic
ally that it is not. It is a matter of personal
opinion however, and others may think differ
ently. We have no grounds for debating the
question.
Most of these difficulties can be obviated by
having separate classes for ladies. But few
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institutions can afford to employ this double
set of instructors, some minor difficulties are
also modified where the girls can be at home,
as in colleges situated in large cities, or meas
urably so in colleges where they come into
proximate conditions of life, On the whole,
however, we think it far better to have sepa
rate colleges and different courses of study for
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each sex
Scene I. A mirror reflecting a son.
Scene 11. A good looking-lass. Window
drops—reflections at your leisure.,
Who " faked ” and exported that cray-fish
aquarium ? •
A whist club has been organized with a
membership of fourteen
The trustees appropriated fifty dollars toward
furnishing the gymnasium with apparatus!
Four of the members of the Senior Class
contemplate taking a law course.
Miles and Swank are the best whist players
in college; that is, when they play together
tliev are
Some one suggested we call the Annual
Mag—nettc
“ Horry" wants to know if our village,
twenty years ago, was run with horse-power
and Jews’-harps, No, my dear boy,, please
read the J'kkk Lanck
They say that Price figured in a novel pan
tomime in Lover’s Lane, near reservoir hill.
Surprised yourself, eh, Price!
There has been added to the zoological de
partment a bear, a monk, and an elephant,
Where are those fine young mustaches we
took such pride in last term ? The look of
mature years has fled, and the boyish face ap
pears again. Oh, fate!!!
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