ABSTRACT
CO-EDUCATION IN AMERICA. The question of the co-education of girls and boys, youn~ men and women, is quietly settling itself in Amenca. Boston University, Cornell, Oberliri, Michigan University, Colby, and many other colleges have lately published their programme of commencement exercises, and the names of women and men follow each other as a matter of course in essay and thesis. In Cornell University the degree of" Bachelor of Literature" has been conferred on Mise Tilden; that of "Bachelor of Science" on four ladies; that of M.A. upon Mise Foster, daughter of Stephen and Abby Kelly It'oster, and another lady. Similar degrees were conferred upon young men at the same time. Boston University graduated six women as M.D., eleven from the School of Oratory, and one from the Theological Department; in all these departments a much larger number of men were gn..duated. " The Wesleyan UniTersity, in Middletown, Connecticut, graduated four young w'omen; these four women were the first who were admitted to the University. Many fears had been expressed by the men students that the " admission of girls would lower the standard," but these women were all good scholars. Two' were in honours all the way through, the third took two prizes, and the fourth one, and now nothing more is heard among the other.students about a lowered standard.
