Word: girton
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...more closely the dramatic style in Greek tragedy. The chief parts were played by young men of marked athletic beauty, and the costumes, although not as accurate and well draped as those in our "Oedipus," were good. The part of Pallas Athene, was played by a graduate of Girton College, who gave a charmingly earnest and dignified impersonation of the solemn-eyed goddess. On the whole, the play was performed in a very satisfactory manner, and the students are to be congratulated on presenting a work of the highest interest and impressiveness...
...expected that the presidency of Girton College will be given to Mrs. Fawcelt, the widow of the Postmaster-General of Great Britain...
...Girton College is very pleasantly situated near the university town of Cambridge, England. The buildings occupy two sides of a quadrangle, tastefully laid out into grass-plots, flowerbeds and trim walks. These buildings contain fifty-five suites of rooms for students; suites for the mistress and three resident lecturers; eight lecture rooms, a dining hall, a small chapel, and an isolated hospital suite. There is also in another building, which stands by itself, a laboratory and a gymnasium. The college was founded about fifteen years ago, in a private house, with six students in the catalogue...
...Honors Examinations" of Cambridge University, are open to students of Girton, and of the one hundred and thirty-seven ladies registered at the college, from its beginning to June, 1882, sixty-two had taken "Honors," and twenty had passed examinations qualifying for the ordinary...
...Annex" is on very much the same plan as Girton, but we are sorry to say, without as firm a footing as yet; but when the Annex has fifteen years of history behind it, who can say that it may not rival this most flourishing of ladies' colleges in England...