Word: guardianship
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...radicalism and its intellectual progress. It is time that the hobbledehoy twaddle about the dangers of this co-education were stopped. It is not now an open question; Cambridge and Oxford settled it some time ago. At these universities young women live in their own "halls" under the guardianship of wise and good women of the highest social standing. They are taken to the lecture rooms by their matron guides, and when the lecture is over are taken back to the hall without any unpleasant or degrading consequences. The mere listening in the same room with young...