es to extend their privileges
to women, if they desire to do it.

The time-honored precedents are at present against the plan, but the
practice of these highest authorities will soon turn opinion in its
favor. The lack of funds to educate women, the rapidly growing feeling
that men and women are at present too much separated by social customs
and differences in tastes, and the belief that it would promote a higher
moral tone among men, are uniting to produce a strong current of
interest and feeling in favor of the system. Young men at the English
universities rarely overwork. Popular feeling, fashion, respectable
sentiment--call it as one will--is all against considering health
secondary to anything. A few evenings ago I chanced to be talking with a
university young man, who was at home for the holidays. I asked, "About
how many hours do your good students work?" The reply was, "Rarely more
than seven. A few of the hardest reading men--those aiming at
fellowships--who do not take more than two hours for exercise, work a
little longer; and they work longer just before the examinations." When
I smiled at the evident contempt thrown upon the "two hours for
exercise," he said, "You do not think two hours enough for exercise, do
you?" In all the best English schools, either for boys or girls, the
plan is to work with vigor, and play with vigor. There are hours enough
for sleep to secure good rest; then work is arranged to give variety,
and confined within moderate limits of time, so that if a pupil does
extra work, he does it by extra intensity.

After leaving school, English girls in the upper and middle classes give
more time to society than American girls do; that is, society is the
regular evening occupation, and in the day-time there is little to do
but to recover from the previous evening.

But society is relieved of a large part of the excitability that attends
it with us. The wealth and social position of the family and the
ingenious tact of mammas, as a rule, win the husbands, and the daughter
needs only to be in sight. It is not at all rare to go to an evening
party and know no one but the host and hostess, and as introductions are
rarely given, one has only to look about and go home when she is tired.
At a dinner-party she is told the name of the one who leads her to the
table, but she is always at liberty to talk as little as she likes, and
she offends the social taste if she talk very much. English mothers of