The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-05-15

ers In Great britain and Ireland. To
them this university examination was
a matter OF getting their living. The
, teacher who holds The certificate will stand
by far the hest chance Of getting place to
teach with the best pay. Inc iauy Ieh1,nus
/ her readers that the wea'.iiy c'asses vi So
ciety hardly realize the intense conpetition
for employment among young WOMEN VINO
! are not veal n.y." IL Wouiu ne wen IL
"the wealthy classes" on this sac OF the
water gave little more thought 10 the same
subject. One or two OF MIS-. fawcetts
points also might be commenced 10 the at
tention OF certain educa'ionai authorities
nota thousand miles away from new YORK.
She says: "The subject OF tue university
training OF women Is only obscured by
sentiment and rhetoric. What are wanted
are facts and experience" She gives
scme OF these same valuable facts
about Cambridge, which are very in
terestlng. Twelve years ago Newn-
ham and Girton colleges for resident
women students were opened at Cam
bridge. The women attend the lectures OF
the professors. pass the regular university
examinations, but get a certificate, not q
degree. There are now 100 OF them In
the two colleges named. They have
proved themselves to be none the less wo-
manly for being the more learned. They
are still what true women always will be,
modest, gentle, unassuming far more
so, indeed, than many OF our pushing. os-
tentatious society women. Genuine learn
ing is always modest, for the matter OF
that. 1t was in 1881 that the regular
"Tripos" examinations at Cambridge
were opened to the girls. BY that time
they had so won their way by intellectual
ability, and their refined, gentle behavior,
| that an overwhelming vote was given In
| their favor. One or two OF Mrs. Faw-
! cett's facts are so lively and readable that
we give them here
zone gentleman, an examiner in Tri-
pos examination. was opposed to the whole
movement, and at that time women had no
right to be examined. They could only be
| examined through the grace and kindness
OF the examiners. A Newnham student
had asked to he examined, and the gentle
man referred to, finding that he was the
| only one OF the four examiners who OBJ
iected to admit her, kindly waived his own
objections and consented to look over her
papers. Whether from accident or de-
sign | know not. but the lady did not
sign her papers with her Christian
name in full-she only put the mi
tial before her surname, which shall
now, call Glover. After looking over all
the papers the examiners met, and the
gentleman who had at first declined to ex-
anime Miss Glover said to his brother-ex-
aminers: Il don't know what result YOU
have come TO. but my best man is Glover
This incident had considerable effect at the
time in dispelling the prejudice against
admitting women to the examinations.
Another examiner proved more obdurate
and persistently refused to look over the
| woInen's papers, but he, too, gave way at
last on being told that the GirtOn students
referred to him among themselves as that
wretched being He felt, presume, that
life would not be worth having If he were
thus spoken OF bya body OF young ladies"