isery as
they have cured. Her work in charity would be certainly strengthened by
the training which would give her insight into this.

"ANDREW D. WHITE, _Chairman_,

"In behalf of a majority of the Committee."

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT OF MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOR THE
YEAR 1872.

"The number of women who are availing themselves of the opportunity to
study at the University is nearly twice as great as it was in the year
1870-71. The number registered then was 34, viz.: 2 in the Law
Department; 18 in the Medical Department, and 14 in the Academic
Department. This year the number has been 64, viz.: 3 in the Law
Department; 33 in the Medical, and 28 in the Academic. These last are
distributed in the classes as follows: Seniors, 2; Sophomores, 7;
Freshmen, 13; in select courses, 6. Of those in the regular courses,
eight are Classical students, nine Latin and Scientific, and five
Scientific. Five of those in the select courses are giving their
attention chiefly to scientific studies and modern languages and
literature; the sixth to classical work. Six women graduated in April
with the medical class, one with the law class, and two now graduate in
the Academic Department. In the Medical Department the women have
received instruction by themselves, except in chemistry. In the other
Departments all instruction is given to both sexes in common.

"It is manifestly not wise to leap to hasty generalizations from our
brief experience in furnishing education to both sexes in our
University. But I think all who have been familiar with the inner life
of the University for the past two years, will admit that, thus far, no
reason for doubting the wisdom of the Regents' action in opening the
University to women has appeared. Hardly one of the many embarrassments
which some feared, has confronted us. The young women have addressed
themselves to their work with great zeal, and have shown themselves
quite capable of meeting the demands of severe studies as successfully
as their classmates of the other sex. Their work so far does not evince
less variety of aptitude or less power of grappling even with higher
mathematics than we find in the young men. They receive no favors, and
desire none. They are subjected to precisely the same tests as the men.
Some of them, like the men, have stumbled at examinations; but nearly
all of them have maintained a most creditable reputation for scholarship
in every branch of study which h