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...then it might be advisable to allow its petition. Not, it is to be hoped, should co-education ever be admitted at Harvard to the extent that it holds at Cornell or at Ann Arbor, but perhaps under some modification of the system prevalent at Oxford and Cambridge in Girton and Newnham colleges. On the grounds of economy, if on no other, such a result might be desired...
...English correspondent writes: "It may be of interest to your readers to know something of the life that is led by the students at Girton. The plan is to have all the meals in the dining hall; breakfast is supplied there from 8 to 9, lunch from 12 to 3, and dinner, which is, of course, a general meal, at 6. Tea is sent to the students' own rooms; about 4 o'clock the cheerful rattling of teacups is heard in the corridors, and announces the arrival of the servants with a large trayful of cups. These trays are taken...
...Girton Review is the name of a journal just established by the lady undergraduates of Girton College, Oxford...
...opening of University College, London, to women has created the need for a place of residence something like Girton and Newnham Halls at Cambridge. To meet this want a house is to be taken near the college by a number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the higher education of women...
...Newnham Ladies' College, writes the Cambridge correspondent of the Woman's Journal, last term there were sixty-eight boarders and eight out-students, at Girton there were fifty-six boarders. Lectures are given by college teachers at these colleges, but many lectures given to men of the university are open to and largely attended by women students, notably the courses by Prof. Seeley in history, Dr. Foster in physiology, Mr. Balfour in comparative anatomy, Dr. Vines in botany, and Dr. Humphries in human anatomy. During the last eight years, thirty-six Newnham students have gone in for triposes, seven...