COEDUCATION IN SWISS UNIVERSITIES. 



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Up to the present year, since 1833, the number of male stu- 

 dents matriculated is about 7,300 in round numbers, of whom 988 

 more than one eighth have taken their degree. Since 18G4, 

 the year when women entered the university, the number of 

 women matriculated is 484, of whom 57 more than one ninth- 

 have taken their degree. The women graduates are classified 



Medicine 



Philosophy I . 

 Philosophy II. 

 Jurisprudence 



Other 

 lands. 



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From the establishment of the university up to the present 

 date ; the whole body of graduates may be thus classified : 



In addition to the examinations taken, each graduate prepares 

 a thesis upon an assigned subject, and these publications are of 

 no small worth. A study of the subjects convinces one that in 

 this way the results of a vast amount of original investigation in 

 science, literature, and philosophy have become common prop- 

 erty. And there are also many other publications, not only 

 from graduates, published after the final theses, but also from 

 those who have taken partial courses publications of consider- 

 able interest and importance. It is impossible to follow these 

 young women through their after-lives and describe their vari- 

 ous services to humanity. The one jurist, Mrs. Kempin, of 

 Zurich, is perhaps the only woman in America now giving lect- 

 ures in a college for woman students of law. Miss Helene Web- 

 ster, a graduate of 1889, now holds the chair of Philology in 

 Wellesley College. And so one might name others. But, from 

 an investigation of their university life, one can judge whether 

 the enlarged vision supposed to result from higher education 

 probably followed in their cases, and whether the privileges were 

 wisely bestowed. 



In the first place, knowledge that the university doors stand 

 open leads to the formation of earnest purpose and to a wise dis- 

 posal of hours and energies in the early years of life, while char- 

 acter is forming a good foundation. The work of these young 

 women in Zurich, after admission to the university, proves this. 

 Professors testify that their conscientious fidelity to tasks imposed 



and their earnestness manifest an influence not only on the char- 

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