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Some say that it is too soon to pronounce upon the success of the experiment of co-education here; but, if the opinion of the women themselves, and of the teachers who teach them, is to be accepted, the experiment in the present season is as successful physically as it is intellectually. The women are as strong and hearty to all appearance, and have not found their sex an obstacle to their activity and comfort in study.

-- Rev. C. H. Brigham, in Christian Register.

LOMBARD UNIVERSITY.

THE testimony from Lombard University, Galesburg, Illinois, is as follows: --

The whole number of graduates is sixty-nine men and forty-five women, of whom twenty- eight of the women have graduated during the last six years. There have been no permanent invalids. Nine men and three women have died. Twenty of the women have married, eleven of whom are mothers. The president, who had been here eighteen years, thinks -- and, so far as I know, his opinion is the opinion of all who have been connected with the institution -- that the women are as healthy as the men. It frequently happens that girls improve in health after coming here; and I have heard two or three of them say, after graduating and returning home, that they should be stronger if they could come back and again have regular work and a definite aim.

OBERLIN.

FROM Oberlin, Professor Fairchild says: --

A breaking down in health does not appear to be more frequent with women than with men. We have not observed a more frequent interruption of study on this account, nor do our statistics show a greater draft upon the vital forces in the case of those who have completed the full college course. Out of eighty-four who have graduated since 1841, seven have died, a proportion of one in twelve. Of three hundred and sixty-eight young men who have graduated in the same time, thirty-four are dead, or a little more than one in eleven. Of these thirty-four young men, six fell in the war, and, leaving out those, the proportion of deaths remains one in thirteen. Taking the whole number of graduates, omitting the theological department, we find the proportion of deaths one in nine and a half; of ladies, one in twelve, and this in spite of the lower average expectation of life for women, as indicated in Life Insurance Tables.