The question of admitting women as speakers in debates of the Cambridge Union, though not as members of the society, is to be discussed by the Union committee tomorrow, with, however, the proviso that they shall only do so by invitation not more than once a term and not more than two of the creatures to be allowed to speak at any time. Even with these ungallant restrictions, I doubt whether the proposal will be passed. Oxford women are occasionally al-Towed to speak in debates and are also permitted to listen in the galleries. But I seem to remember that proposals to admit them as members of the Union have been repeatedly rejected, in spite of Oxford's considering itself so clever and advanced, giving degrees to women and all that, In other branches of Cambridge life, women freely take part. The A.D.C., Marlowe Society and Mummers, which used to dress up men as girls for the requisite parts, now regularly have stutlents from Girton and Newnhamvin their plays, and literary and iausical societies are now thi thied. Of course it is to be remem~= bered that the inmates of Girton and Newnham are still not members the University.
But I do not think that fact will weigh much in respect of admitting them to Union debates. At both Oxford and Cambridge the Unions take themselves terribly earnestly. Are they not the training ground of our future statesmen?
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