CONSPICUOUS SUCCESS.

There can now be no doubt about it. The Harvard Annex is an undoubted success. The triumphant announcement is made, as the final clinching argument, which can not be gainsaid, that three of the undergraduates are engaged to their professors. The most perverse opponent of co-education and the higher education of women can not continue incredulous after such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex. If such a result had been confined to the experiment entered into with such fear and tremboing at Cambridge, it might be considered something phenomenal out of the natural order of things, and therefore worthy of no particular attention except as a curiosity. But it happens that that same result may be seen wherever women have been admitted to men's colleges. In the few co-educational institutions of the East and the numerous ones of the West the same thing has been repeated over and over again. Given, a marriageable professor in the faculty and one, or several, or many pretty and charming "co-eds"-as the young women in those institutions are termed in the college slang of their student-brethren-and no matter how much they are on learning bent, nor how many "missions" their zealous souls have decided to take up, there is sure to be a wedding. It is a fate as inevitable as to-morrow, and the marriageable professor-to say nothing of the "co-ed"-cannot escape it. The law is so fixed that it works equally well the other way, and a prepossessing lady in a professor's chair of a co-educational college is equally sure to be captured and carried off to matrimonial lands by an enamored student.

Whether or not the inevitable operation of this law had been observed by the promoters of the Annex, they have succeeded in opening a new matrimonial market for the superfluous woman of New England. The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women, under whose protecting wings the Annex has flourished to its present stage of success, has done more to solve the perplexing problem of super-abundant women and decreasing marriages that is distressing social philosophers, than all the theorizing and sad predictions of which the talking folk have been guilty.-[Globe.