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EDITORS OF MAGENTA: -
Reading in your number for January 16 a letter from Cornell University, which stated that "many" of the young women, students of that institution, failed to keep up with their classes, I addressed a note to President White, asking for more detailed information. I rely on your love of fair play for the publication of his answer.
A GRADUATEDEAR SIR, - I have heard of but a single instance, among the young women at our University, of inability to keep well up with the class. As a rule, the young women average about ten per cent better on the examination papers than do the young men.
The one young woman who took a degree at the last Commencement stood easily among the first fifteen in a class of a hundred.
But the young women have done better than that; they have raised the average of conscience and manliness and decency more than ten per cent.
As to health, they seem quite as well as the young men; certainly, they present a smaller number of excuses,
I remain, very truly, yours,
AND. D. WHITE.
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