berlin is due. The
President of the Board, Mrs. M. P. Dascomb, has been identified with the
interests of the institution almost from its founding, and was for
seventeen years Principal of the Ladies' Department. A sketch of her
life may be found in _Lives of Eminent Women_. But an impress of her
life is left not only in the characters of the 620 women who have
graduated, but in the thousands who have studied for a limited time at
Oberlin. She is to-day as energetic, as enthusiastic, as untiring in her
devotion to sound education as when we first knew her twenty-two years
ago. Her elastic step has yet promise in it. Her cheerful outlook upon
life has the quickening influence of a June sunshine after a May shower.
Many in that last day will rise up and call her blessed.

It will be seen, from what has been said, that Oberlin, outside the
recitation-room, has two distinct codes of rules, one for the girls and
one for the boys. They differ widely. Boys are prohibited from smoking
and drinking--no such restrictions are placed upon the girls. Experience
has shown that late study-hours are injurious to the health of
girls--and we have never seen it stated that they were good for
boys--consequently, girls are required to retire at ten o'clock. "Now,"
says some one, with finger upraised, "if boys can study more hours than
girls, they must accomplish more work, and have better lessons; then the
boys are wronged by making them recite with the girls." In answer, we
say, the simple fact is that they do not have better lessons; and, in
proof, we ask any one to examine the class-books of Oberlin for the last
ten years. There are as many available hours for study between sunrise
and 10 P.M. as any one, boy or girl, can use to advantage.

In the Ladies' Hall there is an experienced nurse, whose duty it is not
only to care for the sick, but to look after the general health of all.
Special instruction upon various subjects is given the girls in the form
of weekly lectures, or familiar talks, in which health, and how it may
be preserved, is a leading topic.

Dr. Clarke, in great perplexity, asks doubtfully "if there might not be
appropriate co-education?" We answer that there has been, for forty
years at Oberlin. Not in just the sense, perhaps, in which he uses the
term; not in so appropriate a way as it might have been, or, we hope,
will yet be, when an improved condition of her treasury shall enable her
trustees to carry out their wise