Assert whatever you will as to the mind of woman at work and some unimpeachable authority will rise up with experience that contradicts you.

But the same may be said of the mind of man.

The mind--_per se_--is a variable and disconcerting organ.
But admitting all this--certain generalizations, on the whole correct, may be made from our experience with coeducation.
One of the first of these is that at the start the woman takes her work more seriously than her masculine competitor.

Fifty years ago there was special reason for this.

The few who in those early days sought a man's education had something of the spirit of pioneers.