, 1875-12-15
COLLEGE FOR MEN AND WOMEN.
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(From the TEmes.l

friends OF the newly founded College for
Men and Women IN Queen-square, Blooms
bury, was recently held in the large room
of St Georges Hall, under the presidency
of Mrs. William Grey, a lady whose power
an equal education with men is well
known and appreciated. Mrs. Grey open
ed the proceedings with a short speech,
in the course of which she drew q ~favoura-
BILE picture of the college and it's working
during the past nine months ; it's tone. was
good and healthy, the novel experiment of
q mixed social life had been found to an-
swer we'll after a years experience, the
equality which reigned within its walls
had superseded all social distinctions and
the need of rewards as inducements to
study Tie entries of students were far
larger than had been expected at starting,
and Showed this term an increase of up
wards of 100, and the increase had been
mainly in the male students, who were
now nearly equal in number to the women
students, though at first they were only
ia the proportion of one to five. In fact,
the only point in which the College was
not quite satisfactory was that of finance,
for it was in debt, though to the extent of
little more than 9I0O, which she (Mrs.
Grey had every reason to hope would
soon be made up by friends of the educa-
tional cause, or, if not, by a very trif1ing
addition to the students fees, which were
very low indeed. She trusted also that
much assistance would be obtained by
instituting a body of associated members of
the College, both ladies and gentlemen.
In one point only had she noticed "a, lat
ter worthy of complaint, and that was that
when a male teacher gave place to q lady
the male students showed a tendency to
drop off, as If they we're still possessed by
the Anticipated idea of the inferiority Of
women as teachers-an idea which was
thoroughly negatived by Mr.. w. E. Forster,
NJ. P, in a speech In the North of Eng
land, in which he brought forward the
strongest evidence to the contrary from
the United States, as well as from this
side Of the Atlantic. Mrs. Grey was fol-
lowed by Mrs. Madison, who read a long
and full account of the entries in the
several classes, the lectures, discussions,
recrcations, and other details of the inner
life of the College, in the course Of which
she paid q high compliment to the moral
tone of both sexes among the students. The
Hon. Dudley Campbell. c~orroborated what
Mrs. Grey had quoted from the lips Of
Mr.. w. E. Forster, by what he had him.
self seen in America, where he had found
the women exhibiting the very highest
qualities as teachers, aud by words of
Lord f. Cavendish to the same effect.
He gave it as his own opinion that the
sexes were best taught, not separately,
but in companionship; adding that it
was found in America that such COM
partnership, so lar from leading to levity
and Irritation, had q: tendency to sober
down romantic notions in both young
men and young women. In such classes
there was no need to offer the brides of
prizes and scholarships any more than to
introduce punishments, for Che students
were found to work in a. healthy spirit
of rivalry, for the works own sake. And
what he had seen to be the tact in Ameri-
ca he had reason TO know was confirmed
by the experience of at least one large
mill in Lancashire and of one large school
in the E~ast-end of London, where the two
sexes worked daily together, and with
the best results. Mr.. G. F. Newton,
of the British Museum, next spoke, urging
the importance of encouraging in young
persons a love not only of books, but OF
works of art. and SUGGESTING that the gal