, thirty-eight.

Of those in the Law and Medical Departments I can say comparatively
little. The general impression is, that they have endured the work quite
as well as the men; and it is a fact, that a number of the women who
entered the Medical Department, with four lectures per day to attend,
and all the work of the laboratory and dissecting-room to perform, have
steadily improved in health from the time of entering until leaving;
while those who were well at the beginning of their college work, have
in no case suffered a deterioration of health from their intellectual
labor. One of these women, Miss Emma Call, of Boston, graduated last
year, the first in her class.

Thus far the women-graduates from this department have generally taken
positions in their profession which they are filling with usefulness, if
not with honor; and in which, as far as powers of endurance are
concerned, they are showing themselves able to compete with male
physicians. There seems to be an impression prevalent among them--and
perhaps it is not peculiar to their sex alone--that the physician should
be the physiological educator as well as the healer of the race, that
his or her duty is to teach people how to use the "ounce of prevention"
as well as the "pound of cure," and that, through the mutual labors of
the two sexes, more than in any other way, is to be brought about the
long-desired, and much-needed, health reform.

Although it may yet be too early to form an estimate of the effect of
this system of "identical co-education" upon the health of the women who
have graduated from this University, we believe that there has been only
one case of protracted illness, and there is no reason for asserting
that this was caused by intellectual labor--at least, in this
institution, since the lady was here only six months--having taken her
previous course elsewhere--and is a graduate from the Law Department.

Of those who have graduated from the Literary Department, we have
positive information that as yet they have suffered no "penalties" from
their "severe and long-continued mental labor," and they were, on
graduating, as well as on entering. One woman who matriculated with the
present senior class, took the whole course in three years, went forth
in better health than when she entered, and is at present the principal
of the High School at Mankato, Minn., while another is still prosecuting
her studies, and contemplates taking a course of law.