Excerpt from Shooting Stars as Observed From the Sixth Column of the Times Vassar College, as every one knows, contains a vast collection of girls of all sizes, weights, and colors of hair. Those who control the institution have an intense horror of the co-education of the sexes, and permit no male students to cross the threshold, or even to enter the front gate of the college. The girls are strictly secluded from all young men, and the members of the Faculty are united in a determined disbelief in the existence of all cousins and brothers. It has just been an nounced that Since the 14th of September last the Vassar students have sighted two hundred meteors. Now, in view of the utter dearth of young men at Vassar, and the known uses/of meteors, the question arises, How were these two hundred meteors observed? The question is one which comes home with tremendous force to the parents of the Vassar young ladies, and which can not be lightly set aside by the Vassar Faculty, who are directly responsible for the method in which the Students pursue the study of astronomy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.