674 Women In U. Of M. Last Year

INCREASE OF NUMBER SEEKING SIMPLY CULTURE.

The U. of M., the Pioneer of Co-Education, Leading in This Work

In regard to co-education, Dr. Angelí spoke as follows in his annual report today : The number of women in attendance was as follows:

Department of Literature, Science and the Arts - 594
Department of Medicine and Surgery - 51
Department of Law - 4
Department of Pharmacy - 6
Homoeopathic Medical College - 9
College of Dental Surgery - 10

Total - 674

The large number of women who come to the university are preparing themselves for teaching, though there is an increase in the number of those who are simply seeking culture without the intention of entering the ranks of the teachers. Few factors ïave been more instrumental in the improvement in our public schools, specially in the west, than the opening of the doors of the colleges and universities in which men are trainers, to women. For they have thus been enabled to obtain the same education as men, and both they and the public have come to have confidence n their fitness to give instruction in secondary schools. When we remember how largely the teaching in our high schools is given by women, the importance of this fact is apparent to us all.