Hanover College opened on the first day of September, with eighty students present. The number has rapidly increased until it already exceeds that of any other year for five years previous. This large increase speaks well for the Faculty and management of the institution, while the regular attendance and unusual industry of the students can not but be gratifying to the professors. The presence of more than a dozen young ladies is a feature that especially characterizes this year. The perfect deportment and high class standing of this portion of students must be pleasing to the friends of coeducation. If the experience of the future is as favorable as that of the past, the objections of those who doubt the propriety or practicability of coeducation, will be fully answered and the experiment be pronounced successful. No change has been made in the course of study and very few restraints placed on either sex, but those rules which are laid down must be strictly obeyed. Hanover College, after an existence of more than fifty years, and having sent out over five hundred graduates, many of whom are prominent men of our country, by the admission of ladies, shows that she is still up to the spirit of the age. Standing in condition financially and numerically better to-day than for years previous, with her superior advantages as regards health, scenery, and the pursuit of the study of the sciences and with the return of prosperity to the country, this College can confidently look to the future with bright anticipations.