Michigan University Abroad

The Detroit Vree Presa says : The August nnmber of the Trur,:'i; a poriodioal psblished in Loudon, contains m article on our State University, under the huading: " University for xonng Ladies." It also lias an antiquated view ot'thc ground, as thoy were abüut ten years ago, before the Livw building and Ure large addition to tho Medical Department rere built. The editorial rcnmrks weroverv eommcndatory. Professor Moses Coit Tylec hns furnishod an article on the fpminiho element in the institution, which we make the folio wing extract.: "The Ever-Fominine dra wet h on,"said Goethe. Thono is.a tincture of. futurity in his rlirj;st', which, .sofiir as our Univcrsity is. ecncei-ncd, must now give way befora the heroie forco of the nealized present. Tho "Ever-Feminine" taketh up its abode among us. The most numerous masculine oommnnity 9f students in America has boen expoaed, sinco Januury last, to all the horrible risks of 1 eing present at lectur.es and recitations with wonir:i, and that, too, in studies wliieh an old English poettook ]ains to describe as "unmeet for imbecilities." I venture to say. that no revolution in afIV.irs evr crept in so noiselessly, or ever wrought its efiects with so mueh peaee, :is this has dono with us. Had a erowd of strong-brained ladies rushed in upon us the minute the doors were thrown open, it might have been different. As it was, tho new regime was representod for sevoral months by but one young Lady, who most fpitunately was well fitted, both by soholanhip and by manners, to con:ili:itc for the new order the approbation even of mlnntdnt niinds. True. she was more than a nine days' wonder hcre. Not oven Joyce Heth, or the Mermaid, I fancy, was ever stared at more vchcmentlv than was our first lady sophomoro for awhilc. But she bore it admirably, kopt quietly about her work, made capital recitations whenever cnlled upon, and enftbled tho most ohduratc of us, in a few nionths, to conquor our prejudices. So, the battlo was won for her whole sex. Aecordingly, when along with a thousand young men there appeared on the ground ahout thirty young women, who distributed themselves arnong the three dopartments of Law, Medicino, and Literatura, thr"frcsh water" of our inland college lite was scarcely disturbad by a ripple. The whole affair, thus far, is a triumphnnt exemplifioation of the niorits of the . jnire principio in the solutiou oí' a vexing educational problem. But how about scholarship ? t have only to say that on uil hands comes in testimony front our professors that, on these grounds, better recitutions have never been made, and in tho severest studie?, than havo been made by.-the ladios. So far are they from injuring scholarship here, that by their earnestness and tidelity they are, if anything, stimulating it ; and their presenco is beginning to give to all utterances in the class-rooms just that delicacy, that civil, chaste, and humane tone, which the recognition of women among the readers of books has been giving to English literature during tho lasthundred ycars. Upon the whole, though few persons in our faculties desired the arrival of tho girls among us in this capacity ; though in fact, most of the professors aeceptod the siuation as inevitable ; vet I am unable to hear of one of them who now regrets it. We do not affirm that the new experiment has proceeded far enough to be entirely conclusivo. For ourselves, we shall stil] wait and watch - but no longer with iny fear. Meantime, the general opinión upon the present state of the case is f lirly convoyed in tho verdict whieh I heard trom the lips of one of our mostthoughtful and most conservativo men: "ïhe joming of women among us," s.iid lic, " is not only a success, but a success to a dejree wholly unexpected." Unless, there:'ore, some now unseen flaw shall appear n our machinery, it certainly threfttena So conduct the idea of co-education to a mecess that will bo contagious ; and liould this be the case, I do not seo what Dower can avert from the generations of non the calamity hinted at in Young's Jiost ungallant lines: " Is't not onough pl.-ijciief, wars nud fnmino rise To lush our crimes, but nmst our wivcs tw wiso '. "