sary to be gone through is
not such as it is with us; if it were, the difficulty of retaining the
young men at college would be much increased. To show that such is the
case, I will now just give the difference of the acquirements demanded
in the new and old country to qualify a young man as an MD.

+======================================================+============================+
YEnglish Physician YAmerican Physician Y
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y1. A regular classical education at college Y1. Not required Y
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y2. Apprenticeship of not less than five years Y2. One year's apprenticeshipY
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y3. Preliminary examination in the classics, etcetera Y3. Not required Y
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y4. Sixteen months' attendance at lectures in 2.5 yearsY4. Eight months in two yearsY
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y5. Twelve months' hospital practice Y5. Not required Y
+------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
Y6. Lectures on botany, natural philosophy, etcetera Y6. Not required Y
+======================================================+============================+

If the men in America enter so early into life that they have not time
to obtain the acquirements supposed to be requisite with us, it is much
the same thing with the females of the upper classes, who, from the
precocious ripening by the climate and consequent early marriages, may
be said to throw down their dolls that they may nurse their children.

The Americans are very justly proud of their women, and appear tacitly
to acknowledge the want of theoretical education in their own sex, by
the care and attention which they pay to the instruction of the other.
Their exertions are, however, to a certain degree, checked by the
circumstance, that there is not sufficient time allowed previous to the
marriage of the females to give that solidity to their knowledge which
would ensure its permanency. They attempt too much for so short a space
of time. Two or three ye