Taw Into voting ab Cambridge on the subject of the admission of women to university examinations illustrates very strongly the extraordinary change Which Das tke place-ut-lalo-yeara in public opinion on all questions relating to the status of women. As every one knows, there are in the neighbourhood of Cambridge two colleges for Indies, viz. Girton and Newnbam, The students at these colleges have for some time been anxious to be admitted to the university examinations for degrees with honours. They have on previous occasions been supplied with examination papers and the answers have proved that if they were admitted to the regular examinations on the same terms as those of the other sex they would-be quite able.to hold their own, and we might possibly hear before long of a Indy occupying the position of Senior Wrangler.
It has always been admitted that a university degree meant not only that a mau had passed a certain examination, but also that he bad attended a certain number of terms, just in the same way that winning the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon proves not only that aman is @ good shot, but that be must be an efficient Volunteer, and that if degrees were granted to outsiders who simply had crammed for a certain examination they would lose much, if not all, of their value. In the cnse of Indies, however, it was hard to maintain that they should not be admitted to the colleges and would not be: examined became they had not been admitted, and whau they sot up colleges of their own and clamoured for recognition by the university it was found impossible entirely to ignore their claims, A syndicate has Intely reported recom. mending that residents at Girton and Newnham Oolleges should be admitted under certain conditions to the honour examinations of the university, and should receive certificates from the examiners, showing the position they would Lave occupied in the class list.
On the 24th of February last, the Senate had to decide whether this report should be confirmed or not. The students of Girton and Newnham
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