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COLLEGES FO3T GIRLS. 871
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Fees. Students, £18. 18s. A Year, Or £7....
somewhat different principle , its first object being to ensure the princi careful les and ' systematic according to training the teaching of its inmates of the in Church _" sound of Eng relig land ious .
It opened p , in the beginning of 1850 with three pupils , and now numbers forty-six . It may interest our readers to hear its "
corporate the Rev , ecclesiastical . A . Lendrum , and , M reli . A ., g who ious character is responsible " defined both b for y its the princi quality pal , the
of the education , and the careful moral and religious training of pupils , under supervision of the Bishop of St . Andrew ' s . He
observes in the last report , that princi ha " The t p aken les success on th which trouble of it the is t college based in , t which is igate to be them have attributed won and for still to it more the the approval of soundness those of who all of h who ave the
submitted chief ve hand them in e its to the tabl test is o hmen of ves t experience that the . hi , g It hes was t wisdom felt by and those the who most had per the
fect time knowledge sin the founda of human tion of nature the , educa were tiona manifested l institu b tions y churc which hmen ha of ve , the for olde suc n -
uni cessive ersall , genera adop tio ted ns , b traine them d the th leading mi t n ds an d f that Eng for land both . The sexes system . In
t the ion v case but of y in boys the this case system y of has was been ladies e corpora preserve the mea , d , and ns o wi f t h general tinuing approba it were - young
vive destroyed , itHence at the the Reformation education , of and the no daug attempt hters has of till those now in been the u made per ranks to
reducted of society . exclusivel has fallen y at into home the . ¦* hands * * of * private it The is tendency to speculators in f , the or mer p bee ages n con was
perfect to * depreciate * . * system * Reason the of domestic education would relations at must once be , lead now a combination to the conclusion disparage of the that domestic corporate the most and .
corporate inion for * g * irls as * for St boy Margaret s , and experienc ' s College e will was abundantl founded y with confi this rm dis this
guarantee tinctiv op e . obj that ect in the view minds . — -namel . of their y , to daug afford hters to Christian should receive parents the an undoubted best culit is intended that it
shou tivation ld send of which forth they pious were and capable holy women ; * , * with * * religious principles and in the doctrineand duties
habits of their carefull holy reli y formed gion . " —women well instructed s
In accordance with this programme , the first examination papers iven in the report are on reliious subjectsand are specimens of
the g answers sent in for a prize offered g by a gentleman , whose daughters were pupils in St . Margaret ' s College , and who signs himself "A
late Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . " The prize was offered to for the " the Rev best . Francis papers Garden on the Four one of Gospels the professors , " and Mr of . Lendrum Queen ' s referred College ,
London . , to set the paper and , report upon the answers . This gentleman drew up the questions , and the Rev . Miles Atkinson , Vicar
of Harewood , examined the replies . They were considered by these clergymen to evince a remarkable mental proficiency as " the
comthe positions use of of the young lobes girls . " hysical Some geograp of the h que y stions natural in p arithmetic hilosophy , ,
astronomy , natural g history , p , ancient history , and , the theory of music , are also given in the report , and evince a high standard of
knowledge .
Colleges Fo3t Girls. 871
COLLEGES _FO _3 _T GIRLS . 871
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/11/
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