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    EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTS. 291

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    Hn The Ewgxish Woman's Jottrnax For July...

    women , do they eagerly press forward to avail themselves of them ?

    The first question is satisfactorily answered by the Secretaries of the eleven Local Boardsunder whose superintendence the female

    , candidates of 1862 were examined . One writes , — of ladies " We have at our not Examinations found the , sli and ghtest we are inconvenience at all times g attending lad to see the them presence . " _,

    Another : — presence with " Lad the y puts Socie candidates us ty to of inconvenience Arts have , for come several forward , we years are at deli . our g So hted Examinations far to from see them finding in . connex This that in thei year Al ion r

    Miss Blake took a first-class certificate in Arithmetic and a second - gebra satisfactory ; and Miss and will Robertson induce won us to a first persevere in French in our . These practice results of encourag are hig _ing hly

    the attendance , of ladies . " Anotherafter remarking that there had been no inconvenience ,

    , adds , — " I cannot easily conceive how it could have occurred to to the any institution one that

    there should beeither to the candidates themselves , or where and Mackintosh they are , examined out of five . We who had passed two the passed Preliminary this year Examinations ; ( Misses Frazer ; of

    the othersone was , rejected and two came late : ) and several in years before ; but the thoug , ht of inconvenience never struck any one here . "

    The Birmingham Secretary states thattions " As of far the as Society he knows of Arts , the at admission Birming of ham female has candidates not been productive to the Examina of any

    -,, inconvenience of any kind whatever . " The Secretarof the South Staffordshire Association for the

    y Promotion of Adult Education and Evening Schools , writes as follows : —

    didates " I beg and to that say that thoug we h find this no is inconvenience the first who in has examining come forward female in can our

    -: femal district e , classes we confidentl and education y hope is to occupy have m ing any some more attention next year here , as . " this subject of

    Mr . Daniel , of the Bristol Athenaeum , gives the result of his experience from the first opening of the Examinations : —

    dates " I have afc our much Examinations pleasure in hag informing never been you that productive the presence of the of sli lad ghtest y candi in-

    themselves convenience their , annoyance fellow-candidates or embarrassment , or the or Examiner any kind . , In either the to recent the ladies Examinations , ladies have been competitors at many other towns in the kingdom ;

    request but appeared for , the sanctioned * , first Since two the their years sanction admission after was the , obtained ours Council was the every of onl the y year institution Society has seen of at Arts an which increase , at they our

    in their numbers . and from our own experience , , I feel satisfied that it is most may desirable feel disposed that every , to submit encouragement themselves should to the be test afforded of these to lad examinations y-students . " who

    and N the othing other coul Local d be Secretaries more clear all concur d conclusive in bearing than similar these st testimony atements , .

    * In 1858 Macclesfield contributed one female candidate . 2

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    Examinations Of The Society Of Auts. 291

    EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF AUTS . 291

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 291, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/3/