We are not only threatened with a universal era of co-education, but in the opinion of the president of Boston University, as expressed in his recent annual report, a still greater reform is in store for us. The time is not far distant, President Warren thinks, when women equally with men will be called to fill the professorships in our great universities, and indeed will come to supersede men as teachers and investigators in many branches of study. "As a rule," he says, "the old style teaching of languages, history and literature by men has always been mechanical, unsympathetic, spiritless, or in its more strenuous forms merely pedantic, compared with that new and higher type which the native enthusiasm and conscientiousness and insight and teaching gifts of trained women are certain to bring about in the near future." He speaks of "the atrocious text-books and scholastic methods" of the past, for which men were exclusively responsible, and in his opinion there can be no question that the association of women with men, whether as learners or teachers, must work a great improvement in the first of these matters. Although it may be a little difficult to understand the process of reasoning by which this conclusion as to the innate superiority of women as teachers is reached, the novelty of the idea must commend it to thoughtful consideration. It seems, however, a good deal to ask of the conservative scholarship of centuries that it yield itself to the guidance of this new rival without a struggle.