literature and history are affected by the same
influences. Women pay clever actors to teach them, not
Shakespeare or Goethe, but how one ought to feel on reading
"King Lear" or "Faust." If the women of society do not read
a book, it will scarcely pay to publish it.

Science is popularized in the same fashion by ceasing to be
science and becoming mere sentiment or pleasing information.
This is shown by the number of books on how to study a bird,
a flower, a tree, or a star, through an opera-glass, and
without knowing anything about it. Such studies may be good
for the feelings or even for the moral nature, but they have
no elements of that "fanaticism for veracity" which is the
highest attribute of the educated man.

These results of the education of many women and of a few
men, by which the half-educated woman becomes a controlling
social factor, have been lately set in strong light by Dr.
Muensterberg; but they are used by him, not as an argument
against coeducation, but for the purpose of urging the
better education of more men. They form likewise an argument
for the better education of more women.

The remedy for feminine dilettanteism is found in more
severe training. Current literature reflects the taste of
the leisure class. The women with leisure who read and
discuss vapid books are not representative of woman's higher
education. Most of them have never been educated at all.

In any event, this gives no argument against coeducation. It
is thorough training, not separate training, which is
indicated as the need of the times. Where this training is
taken is a secondary matter, though I believe with the
fulness of certainty that better results, mental, moral, and
physical, can be obtained in coeducation than in any
monastic form of instruction.

The question whether or not coeducation leads to marriage seems to present
few difficulties to Dr. Jordan. "Love and marriage and parenthood," he
says, "will go on normally whatever our scheme of education."

PREDOMINANCE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS.

Sport is the Great Secondary Interest in
Our Universities, Says Professor
Ostwald, a German Visitor.

Professor Wilhelm Ostwald, of the University of Leipsic, is not only a
great chemist; he is also a philosopher, and his mind is alert to every
kind of human interest. The courses of lectures