Though all the above particulars were not known to me at the time; yet I knew sufficient to make me regard with intense interest the great city that lay before me, where university life was carried on under such novel conditions. Novel to me, I should say. for the system had been in operation for thousands of years. Buildings could there. be seen, venerable both from the associations that clustered around them, and from an antiquity rivalled by no edifice now existing, except, perhaps, the pyramids. That extensive pile to the right, its numerous domes glittering with their coverings of ualin of various hues, was the great Travud Uergol, or College of Electric Science. That still more extensive series of edifices on the outer verge of the city was the Muetra, or Medical College for Women, to whose portals husbands might escort their wives, but were not permitted to enter.
Rich by the bequests of many generations of grateful alumnæ, this college was endowed to superfluity with all that could further the important object for which it existed, and offered all its resources, without charge, to the thousands of fair young brides, who, as students, thronged
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