ood seed now sowing all over this broad land shall
come to glad fruition.

Meanwhile, Vassar is doing what she can to promote the health and
usefulness of American women, by giving to her students the wholesome
stimulus of regular, organized activity, which has for its definite aim
their preparation for the serious duties of life--duties which trained
faculties carry with steady poise, growing strong under the burden, but
which press with sad and crushing weight upon unaccustomed powers.

ALIDA C. AVERY.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

ANTIOCH COLLEGE.

Of the men graduates of Antioch, 13-1/2 per cent have died; of the women
graduates, 9-3/4 per cent. This of course does not include the war
mortality or accidental deaths.

Three of the men are confirmed invalids. No woman graduate is such.

Of the woman graduates, three-fourths are married, and four-fifths of
those were, two years ago, mothers, the families varying from one to six
children. Only one-half of the remaining fourth are graduates of longer
standing than 1871.

It is proposed to make out statistics which shall show the comparative
health of those women and men who have been here two years and upward,
as it has been suggested that possibly only the stronger could bear the
strain of the whole college course, and that the weaker ones dropped out
by the way. It is perfectly safe now to assert that this is not the
case.

Yellow Springs, Ohio.

LETTER FROM A GERMAN WOMAN.

FEBRUARY 6, 1874.

DEAR MISS BRACKETT:

I gladly comply with your request to give you such information as I
possess concerning the education of young girls in Germany. What I have
to say is, however, more particularly applicable to the southern
portions of that country.

Girls generally attend the public school from the age of six or seven to
eleven, where they occupy themselves with the more elementary branches;
afterwards they are placed in a seminary or "Institut," in which they
remain until sixteen or eighteen. The German girl of that age, if not a
member of the titled aristocracy, is seldom taught at home, except in
music, and perhaps in drawing; private instruction being indeed too
expensive even for the best families; neither is she sent to a
boarding-school, if a moderately good day-school is at all accessible.

In my school days neither Latin nor Greek were taught, and only the
elementary branches of science; from reliable sources I hear that the
present curric