be considered, many things that are not as they should be. If
women were trained from their infancy as they might be, and as
they ought to be, there would be no need of arguing. But so long
as the present fetters of fashion and custom are submitted to,
the question will remain unsettled."

Such is the testimony from Mt. Holyoke.

MARY O. NUTTING.

South Hadley, Mass.

FOOTNOTES:

[50] According to the Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1872,
Packer Institute had graduated six hundred and twenty-eight women, and
Canandaigua eight hundred. No other female institutions report more than
six hundred, and only two others more than five hundred.

[51] Exclusive of war mortality.

[52] Exclusive of war mortality.

OBERLIN COLLEGE.

Dr Clarke's experience and success as a physician give him a right to
speak, and that with the tone of authority. He has spoken, and in such
clear and unmistakable words that all must hear, the startling truth,
that American women are sickly women; that proofs of this fact are not
confined to any class or condition, but that "everywhere, on the
luxurious couches of Beacon Street, in the palaces of Fifth Avenue,
among the classes of our private, common, and Normal schools, among the
female graduates of our colleges, behind the counters of Washington
Street, on Broadway, in our factories, workshops and homes," pale, weak
women are the rule, and not the exception. This is the one permanent
impression which the book makes. It is for this reason that we are
thankful. It matters not that the presenting of this fact was not the
author's main object. It matters still less, that he failed in his
object; for, if his theory had been a true theory, and he had succeeded
in convincing the world of its truthfulness, he would have benefited but
a small class of our American people. Only a few women, comparatively,
are found in our colleges and higher schools of learning.

Man often means one thing while God means another. Luther meant to
reform the Roman Church--God meant to reform the world. Dr. Clarke
meant, as he tells us in his preface, to excite discussion, and
stimulate investigation, with regard to the relation of sex to
education; but he has excited a discussion, and stimulated an
investigation, that, unless Ephraim is wholly joined to his idols, will
not stop until a reform has been wrought in our whole social system. Not
only in our colleges and universit