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Rh The striking success of university coëducation in Switzerland calls for a few words of notice. Mrs. Gœgg writes:

The number of women who have pursued studies at Geneva has steadily increased every year. In 1878 the university of Nuefchatel was thrown open to women, while the university of Zurich has long had a large number of female students. Professor Pflüger, of the university of Bern, writing to me in April, 1883, said:

The rector of the university of Geneva wrote, February, 1883:

We shall now glance at the situation of woman in the three Scandinavian countries, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Sweden stands first, just as Germany does among the Teutonic nations, and France among the Latin nations; in fact we may perhaps go farther and say that of all Continental States, Sweden leads in many respects at least, in the revolution in favor of women.

The State, the royal family, private individuals, and, above all, women themselves have all striven to outstrip each other in the emancipation of Swedish women. Normal schools, high schools, primary schools, the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, both at Stockholm, dairy schools and a host of other educational insitutions, both private and public, are thrown wide open to women. The State has founded scholar. ships for women at Upsala University and at the medical school of the university of Lund. Numerous benevolent, charitable and