Word: girton
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...taken for granted that none of the lady spectators will be able to follow the text in the original. Classical literature is being very extensively cultivated just now among our female students, not a few of whom have shown themselves as learned as Lady Jane Grey herself. At Girton College, established at Cambridge, like Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford, for the training of girls in the learning of the universities, there is also to be a performance of a Greek play. It is understood that the "Electra" of Sophocles has been selected for the occasion. Not only will women alone...
...young ladies of Girton College, in England, are about to act a Greek play in one of their own buildings, no member of the male sex being admitted to witness the interesting performance...
...Girton College, near Cambridge, justly occupies the place of honor in England's renowned universities. The distinguishing feature of Girton College is that it purposes to give exactly the same education to young women that the University of Cambridge gives to young men. The commencing of the movement for its establishment may be said to date back to 1865, when the university first threw open its higher local examinations to young women as well as to young men. With a few alterations the routine of life at Girton is very much the same as in all the ladies' colleges...
...them in the various colleges. In Great Britain the University of London offers degrees to women in every course but medicine; the University of Cambridge in all courses. The Royal University of Ireland is open in all its branches to women students, and the institution and success of Girton College in England is well known. In addition to these facts, President Barnard of Columbia College says in his annual report, that no one can have failed to remark the growing interest in this subject in New York city during the past year. He thinks that Columbia College must soon admit...
...that we are not acquainted with any book produced by any man at either university which does so much for the popular knowledge of ancient art as this work by a student from one of the Cambridge colleges for women." The author of this book is a graduate of Girton College for Women, and the Academy reviewer (a university man) proposes its immediate introduction into the preparatory studies for the universities - for the Cambridge classical tripos, now, with the mathematical tripos, first open to women...