and the young student cannot afford quivering nerves or small
lungs or an aching head any more than bad taste, rough manners,
or a weak will. Handicapped by inheritance or bad training, she
finds the plan of college life itself her supporter and friend.
The steady, long-continued routine of mental work, physical
exercise, recreation, and sleep, the simple and wholesome food,
in place of irregular and unstudied diet, work out salvation for
her. Instead of being left to go out-of-doors when she feels
like it, the regular training of the gymnasium, the boats on lake
and river, the tennis court, the golf links, the basket ball,
the bicycle, the long walk among the woods in search of botanical
or geological specimens,--all these and many more call to the busy
student, until she realizes that they have their rightful place in
every well-ordered day of every month. So she learns, little by
little, that buoyant health is a precious possession to be won
and kept.

It is significant that already statistical investigation in this
country and in England shows that the standard of health is higher
among the women who hold college degrees than among any other
equal number of the same age and class. And it is interesting also
to observe to what sort of questions our recent girl graduates have
been inclined to devote attention. They have been largely the
neglected problems of little children and their health, of home
sanitation, of food and its choice and preparation, of domestic
service, of the cleanliness of schools and public buildings.
Colleges for girls are pledged by their very constitution to make
persistent war on the water cure, the nervine retreat, the insane
asylum, the hospital,--those bitter fruits of the emotional lives
of thousands of women. "I can never afford a sick headache again,