steward's office and pay their bills, and then present themselves for classification, and then for the recitation. Here they meet only men, who have no responsibility beyond the recitation hour. The system is said to work well, but it is difficult to see any reason why it should. A week ago I received the catalogue of our most famous and successful state university, to which I have given a little attention. I found the statement that the University is open. to all, without distinction of sex. I turned to the summary and found 1,882 students in attendance, in all departments, but no mention of any women. I opened to the list of students, and still found no indication of any women, except that the names catalogically arranged presented an indiscriminate mixture of Johns and Janes and Williams and Marys, leaving the reader to settle the question for himself as to the proportionate numbers. I undertook the solution of the problem, but found it beyond my capacity. Are the names Frank and Marion and Myrn and Hollie masculine or feminine? Allowing for these unknown quantities as well as I could, I found two hundred and sixty or two hundred and seventy young women registered at the University. I turned to the pages giving the names of the faculty and found among the hundred and nine professors, assistants, and instructors, the names of four women, three of them connected with the medical department, one in the hospital, and two employed for the special instruction of the young women in anatomy and related branches, and the fourth an assistant in microscopical botany. I find no indication, from beginning to end, of any other provision for special instruction or counsel, or guardianship for these young women. They do not seem to be dealt with as young women, except in the one particular of separate instruction in the dissecting room. I refer to this university as the most conspicuous example of the later forms of co-educational arrangement, and as likely to establish the method for state universities. The plan at Oberlin stands very distinctly over against 453 this. The young woman coming here is received by the principal and assistant principal, is advised and directed in the selecting of her boarding-place, and suitable arrangements at this boarding-place are secured in advance; her selection of studies, and classification are seen to by these same advisers, the office of the principal is open every day for the answering of every question and relieving of every perplexity. Once in two weeks the young women meet the principal for such suggestions and instruction in the way of conduct and character as may be helpful. In the class-room, during the earlier years of her course, the young woman meets some lady teacher every day, whose bearing and character prove a help to her. Every teacher recognizes her as a lady, by placing her name with other ladies on his roll, and addressing her as Miss when he calls upon her for recitation. In the general catalogue she is made account of by having her name stand with those of other young women, and by being counted in the general summary. Her class standing is never published so as to bring her into competition with others of either sex. Only in the appointments for commencement is the idea of classstanding ever suggested, and then, young men and young women are not brought into comparison with each other. We do not and cannot afford to stimulate competition between the young men and young women by publishing their marks at home or abroad. It is obvious that such special provision for young women involves a corresponding expense, but it is vastly less than would be required to establish a separate college for the young women with all the adequate advantages and appliances. There must be a lady principal, whose personal character and influence shall give her command. of the situation and, where large numbers are gathered, she must have an assistant of similar character and influence. There must be a dormitory building furnishing pleasant rooms and an attractive home for young women, where the office of the principal shall be found, and which shall serve as the centre of influence for this entire department. We have not found it necessary at Oberlin to provide dormitory arrangements for the six hundred young women in attendance. The three buildings devoted to this use accommodate about one hundred and fifty; and there is no requirement upon any one to take a room in them. They are found to be so pleasant and inviting that the rooms are all engaged at least a term in advance. The remainder of the six hundred are distributed among the families of the place, which open their doors to receive them. In these families they come essentially under the same regulations as in the halls provided for them. The lady principal is in frequent communication with the matrons in these families, and secures their hearty co-operation and sympathy in the work; an advantage which it might be difficult to secure anywhere but in a college community. But a school of this kind tends to gather about itself families that are in cordial sympathy with the general order. In this respect Oberlin has been greatly favored. It thus appears that the experiment of co-education is going forward in different institutions under quite different conditions, and its success in one form may not establish its success in a very different form. ARTICLE IV. NOTES ON DR. RIDDLE'S EDITION OF ROB- BY THE REV. CHARLES LEAMAN, OF THE PRESBYTERIAN MISSION PRESS, [Continued from Vol. xlvi. p. 304.] THE APPEARANCE TO THE WOMEN. ANOTHER quite necessary change from Robinson's order of arrangement is in the appearance to the women. (See Editor's note.) In no portion of the harmony is it more necessary to follow what is suggested, by taking the accounts in their natural sense and giving the testimony of each account its full and strict independent value, than in this portion. By following these suggestions the account of Luke xxiv. 1-9 does not appear to be a giving of an account of the same party of women, or of the same visit to the tomb, as that of Matt. xxviii. 1-7 and Mark xvi. 1-8. ther is it best to put this visit spoken of by Luke after Neithe appearance to Mary Magdalene (Editor),—for both parties were very early at the tomb, and most probably very near the same time, and with scarcely a doubt, both before Peter and John. Mark says, "very early they come to the tomb; " Matthew, "as it began to dawn;" Luke," at early dawn, they came unto the tomb." Although from this it seems evident that they came unto the tomb about the same time, yet it is not necessary to suppose that they came together, or that they met at the tomb, or before or after. The account of Luke indicates strongly that the appearance he is narrating is a different one from that given by Matthew and Mark; and the differences are so many and so marked, except in time, that, with all the other incidental confirmations, it is by far most probable, that they arrived, and saw separate visions of angels, in quick succession, on that first and great day of the new creation, at that early dawn; and went severally to make their independent reports to the astonished disciples: Mary Magdalene, without seeing the vision, when she first saw the stone was removed and tomb empty; then the other Mary and Salome would shortly see the vision, and run speechless; and then, following shortly, the other women came, and saw another vision, and, with quite a different message, returned, and told all these things unto the eleven and to all the rest. None have yet seen the Lord, as is evident from the record of Luke of the appearance to the two disciples, who left Jerusalem "probably early in the afternoon." (Andrews.) These two disciples said that "certain women...... had also seen a vision of angels, and certain of them that were with us went to the tomb, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not." If, then, the party of women spoken of by Luke only saw a vision of angels, it is clear, that Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, that is, the women spoken of by Matthew and Mark, had not yet seen the Lord, for Mary Magdalene and the other Mary are among the women mentioned by Luke as having only seen the vision. At noon, then, the report of the vision by the women is all that is known in Jerusalem, either from the women mentioned in Matthew or Mark, or in Luke, or from the report of Peter and John, all of whom had been heard from before the two had left for Emmaus. (Luke xxiv. 22-24.) If this be agreed to, then, again, it is evident there is no appearance until after the visit of Peter and John to the tomb; and, if so, none certainly till after the one to Mary Magdalene, whom they left at the tomb, as quite certain |