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not to have this construed as excluding from the audience the gymnasium directors, concerning whose presence the most prudish San Francisco society lady, or most sensational reporter, could not possibly conceive an objection. The relation of the California girls to their director, who has been till this year their constant and only instructor, is very warm; and they owe to his assiduous efforts, his sacrifices of time, & strength and comfort, their only chances for physical exercise here. No one else in the faculty has looked out for them at all about it, and I think all college women owe him a real debt of gratitude for the firmness, personal trouble, and high-minded considerateness with which he has stood by the principle of physical education for girls. (The older collegiate alumnae know about it, -- they called on him as an ally, and he responded bravely, and really won over the secondary