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...later she saw him again, on the street in Edinburgh. But she hid in a doorway until he was safely by. The Author is a niece of "Ian Hay" (Major John Hay Beith) who wrote the War best-seller The First Hundred Thousand. After graduating from Cambridge's Girton College and teaching in a girl's school in Kent for several years, Authoress Beith has been living with her parents in Derbyshire, writing and discarding novels. Her family knew she liked to read Galsworthy, play lacrosse and tennis, but they never suspected she was a writer; when they...
...mere presence of females at Oxford and Cambridge universities was for many years considered preposterous, most irregular. Certainly the young ladies at Somerville College and Girton College would have to look sharp, behave themselves suitably. Last week it became known that Girton, at least, was letting up on restrictions. Abolished was the chaperon system by which Girton girls could make visits and go to dances only in pairs. They may now visit alone in college rooms or lodgings. They may receive young men in their common rooms until 10 p. m. instead of sending them home...
Most of the young men of Oxford and Cambridge continue to be supremely indifferent whether the young ladies of Somerville and Girton are locked in at 6 p. m. or roam the town until dawn...
...good that perfection comes to be demanded! Hence this comment upon "one Mrs. Henry Sedgwick" (issue of Feb. 23, page 17). You refer to Mrs. Henry Sidgwick, widow of Henry Sidgwick, the famous English philosopher, sister of A. J. Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour), principal of Girton College, Cambridge, till 1910. She is probably the most experienced member of the Society for Psychical Research, a purely scientific organization with which she lias been intimately connected since its inception. Aside from her connections, she is, by right of her own achievement, among the most eminent of living women...
...petition ends with a mention of the system pursued by several of the largest universities. Columbia, which confers its degrees directly upon the graduates of Barnard College, and the University of Cambridge, England, which admits the women of Girton and Newnham Colleges to the identical examinations of its own students, and confers very specific certificates of degree. In Oxford the same course is followed, while the University of London confers degrees upon women without restriction...