The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-10

The student who has done the work for
the partial reward thinks that such a time
will come most certainly. perhaps even the
/ holding of fellowship and tut rShip: but the
| women have already the substance OF the
university honors, a perhaps they can
| afford to wait for the full recognition. The
lack of the degree is little announcement
sometimes, as when girl appends to her
signature &c. g., which the knowing are
left to interpret as ''Girton Graduate" and
the uninitiated as $50 d Girl" IN. G.n is
altogether too equiv cal to be adopted by
the graduate Of Newman.
| Ii is explained that it is easier for an
American college TO give its degrees to
women, because at Cambridge the degree
carries with it the right To v1te in the
| University Senate, and that means not only
voice in the government Of the university
but in the election of parliamentary mem
| bers. But the women's frie Ids at Cam
bridge have always moved with tact and
| diplomacy, and one can trust them TO kaOw
when the next forward step ought to be
taken.
Your own success must do much toward
removing prejudices."
''Oh, don't, please; it was nothing. l had
an excellent coach"
One think; Of Disraeli where he speaks of
merit and modestv and feels obliged t. put
off. pro tenn, the asking of pointed ques-
/ tlOnS. Perhaps the tea comes in at this
! iurcture. What pretty china! Oae begins
to wonder what can lock nicer on thirsty
afternoon than quaint teapot in the hand
of such bright, rosy girl.
Ibid you teach your daughter mathe-
maticsW one ventures to ask of Mrs. Faw-
cett. who is rising by this time to keep an
| engagement.
No, Mrs Fawcett had little enough eiu-
| cation, she assures you, in that line. She
had goverpess at home over whom she
tvrannzed. 1t was the fashion in those
! days to learn Mangnell's Questions" and
other things by heart She rode with her
| four brothers and played games and gar
dened and browsed in the library. She had
very little systematic teaching.
And yet it may be doubted if the influ-
| ence of heredity is often more strongly
| marked than in this sensitive, refined, yet
| eager and generous daughter of mother
who has been her child's friend and frie i'd
of her child's friends, aud who in all hec
twenty years on the platform advocating
woman suffrage-Lord Deroy said the other
day in the house Of lords that the best
political speech he had ever heard was
| made by q woman, and he meant Mrs.
Fawcett- in her study writing on politi-
cal economy, has found time to be her
daughters best adviser and eucourager,
te aching her common sense and self-rell-
| ance and a high enthusiasm.
Miss SlOuRu 10 JLe DIluclpdl Oh newman,
| is she not ~ one asks when it appears that
the subject of Cambridge may safely be
approached again.
"HeS, she is the sister of Arthur Hugh
Clough, the poet, and it is an education in
itself to be three years with her." Miss
Fawcett relates how Miss Clough managed
tie campaign when the university was asked
to admit women formally to the exanina-
| tions. That was nine years ago and before
| har TINA lint Fab hoe haan EaD
since as Commemorauion day. The Senate
was to vote on the question, and terrible
| rumorS were atf)at us to the immense
number of nonresident members VIII
would come up to vote against the girls
/ On their side the women whipped up every
man they could count on to come and vote
| for them, for defeat meant almost certainly
the total collapse of the Informal system
under which tho girl students had up to
that time been examined. The opposition
went to pieces. the women carrying the day
| 39S to 81, and after that they may look
| forward to almost any victory.
The girls, Miss Fawcett says, have gained
| a very high average of success-her looks
| deprecate any personal reference-and the
number Of residence has increased steadily.
| Newman, which began with five students,
had over $50 this past year, and the demand
for the university degree could hardly be
made more nodestly and yet more pointedly
than by showing the women do what an
excellent use they make of what the wise
/ generosity of the university has already
| given them.
"You believe, then, that the prospects are
bright for the higher education of women
! in Great Bri'ainl'
| Most certainly"
| And your future workp'
The Lady Wrangler has only just quilted
| Newman; she is going to the continent for
a rest aud about what will come after she
is not ready to say.
Miss Fawcett, it may be we'll to say for
the benefit of the good Frau in Dusseldorf
pension, who exclaimed on hearing of her
success And what is some day to become
| of her manE is an excellent needewoman
and likes fine sewing. l believe she is not
, incapable of knitting stockings. She pos
sesses one Of the softer virtues of weakness les
in great affection for small dog named
OddO, which frisk5 about the room with a
| great deal of confidence and freedom.
And "a one says goodbye one thinks OF
Guido's picture of The Dawn and finds
ones self comparing this girl with the re-
bust and ruddy maidsns whom G lido sur
rounds with clouds and roses. Miss Faw-
! cett is not yet %. Some day the dawn will
deepen into sunlight, and then on her path
may there lie-Gudo's roses.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
| FOUR MILLION DOLLARS EACH