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dence, any one of our courses of study may be completed by a young woman of fair ability without undue draft upon her strength. None of the many objections, which are still raised against the co-education of the sexes, have thus been found in practice here to have any force, The admission of women has led to no new difficulty or embarrassment in the administration of the Institution. It has certainly brought to a large class the benefits of such an education as otherwise would have been out of their reach, and has awakened through the State and the country, and even in foreign lands, a new interest in the University."

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for the Librarian, Bookbuyer and Bookseller.

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MAN

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220 STEAM AND STEAM ENGINE-LOCOMOTIVE. By Henry Evers, LL.D., Plymouth.

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