e was ill four weeks, and he, seven.

As a class, the 'sophomore girls' are in even a better physical
condition in the middle of this their second year, the hardest year of
the course, than they were at the beginning of last year. One of them,
with charming _naivete_ asserts that she was 'miserable' when she
entered, and her father sent her to the University to 'see if she
wouldn't get well;' and she 'has been getting well ever since.'

The average attendance of the young women of this class upon
recitations, is also fully equal to that of the young men, judging from
the stand-point of the professors; and in the classical sections it has
been better.

In the present Freshman class, there are also seventeen young women,
most of whom are under twenty years of age; as also are most of those of
the other classes on entering. Of those in this class there is little to
be said, as they have been with us but a few months. They appear to be
well and strong. Many of them are graduates from the high schools of the
State, and a large proportion from the Ann Arbor High School. In regard
to his graduates, Professor Perry, the Superintendent of Schools in this
city, gives the following statistics in regard to sixteen young men and
nine young women who graduated last year:

BOYS. GIRLS.

Attendance .96 .96.
Scholarship .85 .88.

It is a fact that thus far the women of Michigan University have
demonstrated a principle of Dr. Tappan's--a former president of the
University--that brain-work is good for the health. If the seeds of
future disease have been in some mysterious manner implanted in their
systems, it is in no sense apparent except to the imaginations of those
who are least acquainted with our girls. The points which I wish to
establish are these: that their health has been as good as that of their
classmates; that those who were in a proper condition on entering have
in no respect suffered a deterioration of health from their intellectual
work; that of those who were not in a proper condition for this or any
other kind of work, and have been obliged to withdraw from college,
there have been only two--a no larger per cent than the records of the
young men would show; that although we have lost one by death, they have
lost several; and that the ordinary brain-work required of the
intelligent, ambitious students of Michigan University, if they are
prepared in all respects for it, is conducive to