The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1881-02-16

KzclT number Of EEyPer',; Naga-fgs has
a paper called fSsSent Movements IL Woman's
Esucatiou-- The writer S1is that the progress
made In the effort to open all brssches Of learning
to women Is very striking. In lSOO OF she twenty
-four colleges IN the United States none wers open
TO women. More than f0Qr-6fths Of the seventy
I've colleges chartered II IS61-7O are open to both
sexes At the present time, IN list Of three hun
dred and eleven institutions bearing the name Of
college one hundred and seventy admit both sexes
On equal terms and I'VE admit women only The
college Is ssiH unknown which, having made fair
trial Of co-educatio1. has excluded women ; and
upon many Of tie conservative institutions strong
pressure Is brought TO persuade them to open their
60ors-a pressure 70 which a few Yield every year.
But both II England and the United States the
n0rs n7tabIs and recent m0yements In the eiaca-
tio1 Of women have not consisted either IN essab-
Eshing colleges for them or N ofsring them
raarric-lat5oa papers at mems colleges Several
Of these movements, although not independeEt Of
the universities, are peculiar IN their origin and
orEa1Izati0u.
The Harvard Annex as Il Is called vas estab-
Eshed II the Winter Of IS7S-79. Previous to this
there had been Harvard examinations for women.
which though very useful IN directing home study
left the immense resources Of the college znavail-
able for women The problem h0= to give women
the Advantages Of these resources has at least sp
parently been solved BY the following plan: The
Cambridge professors give to women N private
classes tie istruttion that they give publicly IN
tae college. Women can become regular stuieuts
Of the college eo1rs n this way can take special
courses The conditions Of admission are similar
70 the regular entTalce examinations to the col
lsge. ard the price Of instruction but little raore
taAn the college Triton In the first year twenty
four eoOrses given BY tveuty-shree officers Of
the college. II the secu15 year the courses have
doubled Instruction * given IN G-eek Latin.
Sanscrit, English, German, French Italia1- and
Spanish IN Philosophy, Political Economy, His
tS-y- Music, Mathematics. Physics. Chemistry.
and NssB-al History Of the success Of the scheme
there seems 70 Be but one opinion Professor
GoodEIa the GlstiESyzishsd scholar and teacher Of
Greek says -Ths plEz already II is zude-
Tsl0ped condition offers % yozng women better
advantages than any institution N Al1erica offered
10 young Hsn fifteen years ago- It's 1lsiuzse sue
cess depends entirely, n ny opinion, on the Sup
port which It receives from pupils and from the
bounty Of those Eho csa Eivs Substantial ard 10
szch an institzaion-7 The Harvard Annex then
Is Al accomplished fact. ard we feel that N 10
long time or sons and or daughters VII SIT
togesher z-der the sane instruction II ou- f-ss
American colleges
Bat the recent u0Teueuts II the higher edzca-
t51u Of =Urzs1 axe not eo1fnsd to America In
England and Germany the same movements are IN
progress winch are proving Ct 30 great advantage
70 IS indeed England has anticipated the United
SsEtss n several edzcariozaI plans which ara uo=
= I T. -
vance the last quarter century Is Indicated N
so1e i've distinct Steps The first was the estab-
Iashnent Of Queens College, London n Is5sl. lis
purpose Eus 70 0Eer 70 yozne women what kings
Consge p1Jvaied for yoz1g 1-en-a hizt-cIlss
secondary school with university department..
The secD16 step vas TIE opening II 1ss5 Of tie
OEf1rd and Canarid-s lecal ezzuzizatioa5 70
girls over elghtssu ysa-s of sss- From this step
followed n Is69 the iasttztioz Of tie Ca1zbridzs
higher I1eal srsuiazi11s for women In TIE sine
ysa- the zrsszsr privilege ef sduzissou to the
rzgzlar ezzsuIza=ioGs Of the University Of Cam
5ri3sg rs asked for and obsained- CiE-soa Col
Iees vas izco-po-ased n Is72, ard for nearly
decade the work Of Girton has been prosecuted 5y
the SIDE Of, ard n dl-sc1 connection With. the
41r5ens Ezivsrsits. Ths course Of st-dy may be
ua5e identical With the university c1zrse: the
the university lecturers and -coackes'' are en-
PloEedi the university ezaziaa-ioa papers ara set
for the yUzng women and tze s1szsrs are e.
alai7et 5E university Processes and assessed by
university sta--lariS Similar 70 Cif-11a Coliers H
Ne=uksz EAA To tie Grzdzztes Of bosn these
institutions the University Of Cambridge grants
del-=s esr1fcats- Ths Iasf sep ard one Of the
nanst Important Is the opening OF fhs szzzz-z.ious
Of LouaDn University % vSzen
Germany i more c1rss-vz-i7s tt1n Eurizud
b1t the eznse Is also gaining ground there No
vozzan may Be zatrcuiatsd OF receivE 4 degree
fr1n the Leirsir University, but she NAY attend
Lectures and rsceIEs al the substantial benefits of
menberzhip While Gotsngsnhas c1utsrrsd the
doSsor'1 degree oz several