During almost thirty years that he has been president of college faculty meetings, he has never _once_ heard, from any member of the Faculty, any intimation that the girls in the class were in any way whatever a drag upon the class. They invariably keep up, and oftener come out ahead than they lag behind. Nor is this more characteristic in one branch of study than another. Languages, science, philosophy, they grasp as clearly, strongly, and comprehensively as men; and as the result of his observation and of his experience, which, he says, in co-education in a higher course of study, has perhaps been greater than that of any man in the world, he thinks that while it is just as much better for men to be so educated as it is for women, the result to the latter is to make them more practical, more natural, less given to effeminate, rather than feminine affectations, and more readily adaptive to anything life may demand of them than any class of women he has ever known. Also, in the particular of health, he has carefully observed the effects of close and continued study, not only during the course, but in subsequent life, and he will risk his reputation for truthful statements, in saying that he believes--that he knows--the most careful statistics would show among the women who are college graduates, whom he has known, a higher standard of health than among the same number of women from any class of society--working women, fashionable women, or women of merely quiet, domestic habits. And yet, "every well-developed, well-balanced woman who is a graduate from our colleges has actually performed one-fourth _more_ labor than a man who has stood by her side, and she is entitled to one-fourth more credit." A girl should be as free to choose for herself as a boy is. She can never truly know herself, nor be known by others, as the power in the world, greater or less, which she was ordained by God to be, until these thousand restrictions that limit and dwarf her intellectual life are removed. "Let her make herself her own To give or keep, to live, and learn, and be All that not harms distinctive womanhood."