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    292 EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.

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

    There is evidently no practical difficulty whatever in conducting a mixed examinationIn this casethe authorities simply relied

    upon the good feeling . and the self-respect , of the students , and they were not disappointed . This question may therefore be regarded as

    settled The , other by the question best of , all as tests to , whether that of actual women experiment are very . ready in

    has clusivel making steadil y use , in of the increased educational negative it . cannot advantage Thoug be h the denied s , number is answered that of after female almost four candidates years as con of

    trial , the proportion y ( as , shown in the returns , for 1862 ) of 22 women to have 793 been men assi , is gned very small Young . women For this who backwardness know comparativel , various reasons y little

    . , heard of what of is these going examinations on in the world and , are very likel who y are never aware to have of their even many

    , existence , may not know that they are intended ridicule for both others sexes .

    b Some y a natural , no each doubt of and , which have well- has been grounde doubtless deterred d fear b had of y the failure its fe influence ar . of But , besides there ; exists these , causes

    another , more potent than all—that of indifference . , Women , as a ruledo , not much care for knowledge . Probably , men , as a rule ,

    do not , much care for it either . But there is this difference . woman An ignorant is not man We is are ashamed speaking of his not ignorance of the hi , g an her ignorant classes ,

    . where mental cultivation is now recognised as at least an agreeable quality Arts' Examinations in a lady , but were of the instituted class for . whose Study benefit is not recognised the Society as of

    one of the duties of women . In how few families can a girl take even so much as two hours a day for study , without either sensation that she is

    being induling called herself off , or at working somebod under else's an expense uneasy ! The trifles in which _,

    g y regarded the spring as time duties of so stud many as women a pastime ' s lives to which is frittered they may away be , per are

    -; y , , the mitted thirst to resort for knowled , when they is have not strong nothing enoug else to h do to . overcome In most cases these , ge

    difficulties thing should ; nor be be indeed so ri strong ht is it What to as be to wished lead want a that is girl recognition the to thirst do what for not _any she

    much does not on the feel part to of young g . women we themselves , a ( for they are _^ alread so y than half convinced ) as on the part of parentsand the public ,

    whose more all-powerful opinion , is their ruler and guide , , that for them alsothe acquisition of knowledge is an important and worthy object .

    We " , need I am to quite lay sure to heart that the it is wise a most words solemn of the dut late the y Dr to evil . cultivate Arnold moral : — our

    understanding sequences of fanaticism to the uttermost to a greater , atisfied for I degree have that seen than I lected ever expected intellect con to is

    far see oftener them realized the cause ; and of mischief I am s to a man , than a neg a perverted or overand cleverness

    valued one . Men retain their natural quickness ,

    292 Examinations Of The Society Of Arts.

    292 EXAMINATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1863, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011863/page/4/