Ladies In College

At a recent educational oonference in in Boston, President White, of Cornoll, is reportad as aaying ; " 1 most thoroughly boliovo that the edueation of tho Mz her i wtjll worth trving, and I will briefly teil you soino of tho reasons. In the first placo, ] visited Oberlin College, which has partiaps been as mach laughe l ;it as any college in this land. It has bod bU ragaries. It lir.st dured to do that moet frightful thing - to edúcate white men and black men togother. I went and suw them togethur, and I never s.uv any body conduct thomseves botter than that body studente, numbering fcwo or threo hundied young m:i and young woinen, ín their largo dining-half; and those who know anything about cducatinn know that that is a remarkably good test of the civilization that obtains among them. - Then in tli abiSty, Dr. Clarke has said that he would havo :i vom;m do anything she oould do. N"oW tho oloanest und the clcarest and th igof Tacitas tlwtl hcard at Oberlin College was trom ;i xroiaeea, :nulanybody that can read Tacitas well shows pretty good evidonce of a stroug, cloar mind. Againi at tin1 TTniversity t' Michigan there is a lystein, there boing no dormitory. Thera tho professor of civil engineering, Professor Vfood, told me that for söveral years he had beon In the IkiIjíl of offering a prize ter problema in (!:.■ higher mathematica. For yearg flipy had not been solved, hut tliis yearit liad beien Bolved by a voman, and the ' tii tony generiil'y was tliat the women8tood as' well as tho men. Prof. Winohell, who has charge of the botajay, Bowod : 1 1 ■ a carefttl Bohedule which hu hul prépáred t show which stood tho bighi -i, and in Kis department tho young women excelled. At Antioch C a Gernmn rècitation, I saiv i workdonobyu woman. 1 saw excellent work il(ine in other dlrections in tl nauiéd. At I dustrial University of ihe State of tllinois the same thi ding tlièir owa i yiróll. :y of Wïsconsin O'. the same: listili oiiy. At the BO-called Northwestern Dnivcrilty, at Evanston, Illinois, ñ'ear Chicago, and also at tho Iowa Únivewityi which Ididnot visit,. there is o testimpny. Nowlwon't claim that young in the young mi a. Mr. Whitoaaid thai the gentlemen who went with liini, and who propose I to make the ü't, carne b " - cellcd uu d in the powi ca of acquirément, bui he did not loc Sight of the faat that the youag womenwero ringled out, wbile the yonng menwexe taken as they ron. uittel tl::: t.i'f young womon wen; apt to devoto themsel ves so cíirncstly to suvly a.i to injtire thoir bealth, thus confirming tii ju-igraent of Galdwin Sraith tli. tl competitivo prizes were dangirous whore young men and young women aru gatbernd togethor. Prof. Angel], of tlio Micfaigan Uiiivcr-iily, who was prepared tothink unfavorably of the system at the start, had hegun to liko it. The yoang . woiiü n did nol w . gether, and tho young men werc müru ;ittentire to the young romen of the place to th.ir ii llow-students." Mr. Ed. M. Shelton, of tl." olaaa of '7i, i-gricnltural College, lias just been appoiritod Saperinfenclenl i the Model tnJbpkn, for Uk; promotion of the agricultura! sduoation of tbe "Japs." II" iri nov. ;■-■.; in :,' in i , ,lc;t inj; stock for this Model Farm: the bost Morgan and Hamil nu Devon c-it■il"-: as l S -;i ti ulo wn, Linpoln au t Merino i ; also iiiipvovcd agricultural iiuplcmenta, seeds, groins.