President Angell's report to the board of regents, of Michigan University, notes an increase of thirty-six in the attendance of women during 1886-7, and a relative gain in numbers with respect to the male student. They now form nearly seventeen per cent. of the whole. He bears witness to their capacity to meet the severest tests of the common discipline, and says:- "The advantages derived from the University courses have proved as helpful to the women in their lives subsequent to their graduation as to the men." Of both sexes, he says: "The number of farmers' children exceeds every other class." "Harvard University now distributes to students $67,000 a year, a sum larger than our total receipts for students.- N. Y. Post.
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