uitable clothing for all the exigencies of the
weather.

Their study-life is quiet and happy. Their rooms are in private houses,
usually rented in suites of two, with plenty of light and ventilation,
and with bright, pleasant furniture. The people with whom they live are
very kind, and take a great interest in the young strangers who come
among them. They board either with the family, or in clubs,--as most of
the young men do, and with them; and somehow there is among them little
of that false appetite for indigestible food, usually so prevalent among
young women who are at a boarding-school, or living away from home.

There are no regularly prescribed study-hours, and there is no regularly
prescribed exercise. Most of the young women have rooms some distance
from University Hall, to which they are generally obliged to go two or
three times a day, so that they, of necessity, have considerable
walking--in which some of those here have shown remarkable powers of
strength and endurance.

In fact, there is nothing prescribed for the student, except lessons;
the only authority which the university assumes is intellectual
authority, and nothing is compulsory except attendance upon recitations,
and a proper attention to the prescribed work.

Perhaps the principal cause for the good health of the young women, and
their ability to endure the work they have entered upon, is the fact
that they have an aim in life beyond the mere fact of graduating from a
great university; they believe that there is a future before them, in
which they are to do a woman's work, in a manner all the nobler and
better for the advantages of this higher education, and as they advance
toward its opening portals, the step becomes firmer, the form more
erect, the eye more radiant; they believe, also, that the divine call
has come for woman to be something more than the clinging vine, or the
nodding lily; that delicacy is a word of mockery when applied to health,
a word of beauty when applied to cultivated perceptions, and refined
tastes.

They enjoy their work; they have the confidence of their professors, the
esteem of their classmates, and the love of one another. Their work is
to them more attractive than the charms of society; their Greek and
Latin more entertaining than the modern novel; their mathematics no more
intricate than the fancy-work which used to be considered one of the
necessary things in a woman's education; and most of them have mind