er intellectual labors, or that, under the
same conditions, the same results would not have followed from any kind
of work. She was, and had been for a long time before entering, in a
very bad state of health, and was utterly unfit for study.

Thus far, the health record of the women of this class has compared
favorably with that of the men, and there is, at the present time, no
physiological reason why it should not thus continue even 'down to old
age.'

The class of '75 had, on entering, eleven women. Of these, one has died,
an apparently healthy girl, who passed from us in the second year of
her college life, shortly after her return in the autumn. We do not know
the cause of her sickness, but we do know that it was not the result of
overtaxed mental powers, since it occurred but a little while after the
long vacation of the summer, and the disease was one which had carried
off a number of members of the same family in former years, viz.,
typhoid fever, alike unsparing of age, sex, or condition. With this
exception, this class has been remarkably healthy, and with but a slight
exception is, at the present time, perfectly so. Their attendance on
recitations has been uniformly good, above the average of the classes,
and they have done excellent work. Of these, two were sixteen years of
age on entering, one was twenty, and the others varied in ages between
sixteen and twenty. Concerning one of the former, President Angell had
some misgivings when she entered, as she did not seem to be very strong;
but she is now in her third year in the University, and her mother
informed the president not long since that the health of her daughter
had improved since she came to Ann Arbor, and that the nervous headaches
by which she had been formerly troubled had entirely disappeared.

Among those who matriculated with the class of '76, were seventeen young
women, two of whom were in poor health at the time, and physically unfit
for work. One was ill for some time last winter with rheumatism, and
compelled to suspend her labors, and the other was obliged to leave
college. The former is now teaching, and will probably return, and the
other has resumed her studies, but is far from being well. One of the
number, who is from the Sandwich Islands, was sick four weeks with
inflammation of the lungs; but her brother, who is one year in advance
of her, was also sick in his freshman year with the same disease, the
only difference being that sh