and girls are one, and that the
boys make the one," or that "boys' and girls' schools are one, and that
that one is the boys' school." In all those general regulations which
affect both sexes, she remembers that half her children are girls: and
the modifications which have consequently been made in ordinary college
rules and customs, are found to be just as good for boys, and often a
positive advantage. No early bell calls to chapel prayers, but, when the
recitations are over, all assemble for devotional exercises. There is no
standing during these exercises, and the result is quiet, and an
addition both to "the stock of piety," and "the stock of health."
Oberlin furnishes no pleasanter sight than this daily assembling of its
thousand students for evening prayers.

Even in her architecture, simple and unpretending as it is, there is a
recognition of the fact that girls are not boys. With one exception,
there are no recitation rooms on the second floor; and, while the
dormitories for boys are four stories high, Ladies' Hall has but two
flights of stairs.

There is no effort made to excite an unhealthful emulation. Prizes are
never offered, and ranking of classes is unknown. A record is kept by
each teacher, of the daily recitations in his department. If the average
of any student is found to be unsatisfactory, he is informed of the
fact, and an opportunity given him either to prepare for a private
examination, or quietly to withdraw from his class.

The Women's and Men's Departments are entirely distinct, the one being
under the supervision of the Faculty, the other of the Ladies' Board.
This Board of Managers is at present composed of nine ladies, who live
in Oberlin, and, with the exception of the lady Principal, are none of
them teachers in the college. To them the trustees of the institution
have confided all questions touching the discipline, health, and general
welfare of the girls. In doing this, they were, no doubt, actuated by
the common-sense view, that women know best what women need, and that,
therefore, a Board of Managers composed of experienced women and mothers
would frame wiser laws for the government of girls than young tutors, or
even gray-haired professors, with the best of intentions, could possibly
enact.

To the women who have composed this Board, especially to those who were
members during the early days of persecution, much of the success which
has attended the experiment of co-education at O