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372 COLLEGES FOE GIRLS.
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Fees. Students, £18. 18s. A Year, Or £7....
For girls under twelve , tlie charge at St . Margaret ' s is sixty pounds per annumabove twelveseventy pounds . Crieff lies at the foot of
, , the Grampians , and is accessible by railway , altogether forming , so far as we can judge by the report , a desirable place of education for
those who wish their daughters to be brought up according to the strict discipline of the Church of England .
We ought to add that colleges possessing more or less of corporate constitution have been established during the last few years in various
parts of London and in the provincial towns , varying in their character between the chartered dignity of Queen ' s College , and the
classes of a superior day school . Now it would be very unfair to institute too strict a comparison
between the first and the last part of this paper upon colleges . It has never been considered until quite lately that women must be
highly educated for the better performance of their moral duties , therefore the piety and conscience of the nation have not tended to
exertion in this direction , and even women , sharing in the general inionhave been far more anxious to educate men than to educate
themselves op , . But now , partly because innumerable influences are tending to raise the estimation in which the feminine character is
held , and partly because , with the advance of civilization , the moral duties of women have become far more important and complicated ,
a strong re-action has set in , and families of the upper ranks set few limits to the amount of cultivation desirable for their daughters
to possess . When Latin , Greek , and mathematics became ordinary branches of study it was natural that the aid of male professors
should be urgently demanded . It was equally natural that highly educated men , sharing in the domestic influences of their time , and
accustomed to see women learning under disadvantages at home , should warmly respond to the appeal ; hence the foundation of Ladies . '
Colleges But we . cannot help feeling that until parents aim differently in
their educating own their education daughters with , and a different until daug ultimate hters purpose themselve , colleg s pursue iate
advantages are , for the majority , offered comparatively in vain , and that colleges will be chiefly sought as offering cheap classes and
cheap masters for young girls , instead of a solid and progressive education for young women . Men have to work hard for their
deveriest grees , and dunce the can attainment comprehend of these , a serious degrees difference will make to the , as social even and the
professional position of later years . The woman , unless she be blessed in g this enoug irls ambition and h to clever be or working from by boys a emulation pure will towards oftentimes love of some knowled work their definite intensel ge fe . llo purpose ws We y but from know , has how pure that to is rep deli it clever with lace ght learningamong
the early stup some id , , desirable or the frivolous position , or in those drawing destined -room by societ their , y ? parents to fill
372 Colleges Foe Girls.
372 COLLEGES FOE GIRLS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 372, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/12/
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