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COLLEGES FOR GIRLS. 373
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Fees. Students, £18. 18s. A Year, Or £7....
organised It is a heavy and best drawback officered from " Ladies the efficiency ' College of " that the most the customs thoroug and hly
but the prejudices little choice of b societ etween y assi a very gn to earl their y marriage students , p in hilanthropy succeeding , or ye no ars - demands
thing particular to do . And as these three careers make no fear upon lest a knowled the learning ge of Latin should , Greek evaporate , or mathematics or remain , there packed is always up and a
labelled for a use that never comes ; giving , no real nourishment to the mental faculties for want of the active exercise which might have
caused it to assimilate with the mind . Our readers will clearly understand that we are not arguing _butfor such
activities against any in extension after-life of as education shall lead to them women reall , y j to use their practical
advantages Again , to objections the best purpose have been . made to the colleges on the score of urious to healthand
parents here the amount . again . Girls it of seems labor are usuall to they us y impose that much a heavy worse being responsibilit inj brought up y than rests boys ; with in
regard parents plays cricket to who physical send ; a g daug irl training rarel hters y ; to does a attend youth more classes boats than in and walk these rides . colleges It , skates rests to with and see kind of h
that the mental work is properly balanced by some pysical recreation whole college , and course that . no Parents g of irl of fashionable unfit who bodil send y their condition children school accep without wher ts the
scrup irls le cramming to be the for victims examination a have been known boarding to work from , five e in g the of morning college le till ctures eleven if at they nig choose ht , can to make stimulate an equall their y unwise home
use We studies do and however shut them heartil up wish in the that house public during opinion hours would of recreation subscribe . y
attache to provide , d layground every , girls' great college as with might amp be le the premises difficulties and in an the amp way le
p , done of accomp for the lishing London so University desirable an which end is in located the metropolis neither in . a It street was
, nor aand when there is a will there is usually a way . Filiall , square y , in , reference to the quotation prefixed to the head of this distinction betwe
article;—we explained at length the essential en thing a universit like y " , a maj university or , and a for college maidens , minor ? " , — It when certainl shall y will we see not any be
interests founded among of female us education upon the have spur of so far the advanced moment , nor as to until make the it of
worth unwise separate while to branches aggregate to found of separate them knowled after ge colleges . the Even manner for then the predominant of it Oxford might be and study hi Cam ghly - and disciline
bridge , and wholly incompatible with the home care p united so carefull in any y bestowed organic manner upon g , irls as was ; but at were one time the contemp differen while t lated college in , the we s believe intellectual advantages would ensue
many ,
Colleges For Girls. 373
_COLLEGES FOR GIRLS . 373
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/13/
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