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    364 COLLEGES FOR GIRLS.

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    in the chronicle of Hyde Abbey is said to have erected halls for the students , and chairs and seats for the doctors at his own charge .

    . But of Oxford we are told that in all probability no regular system or corporate body for the purposes of learning existed there till the

    twelfth century , though ecclesiastical schools abounded at a much earlier dateand likewise secular establishments , such as were kept

    , hy , or hired and rented of , the inhabitants of the town . When many of these secular scholars resided in one house , it got the name

    of Hall or Hostel , terms which are not yet out of use , and governors or principals were appointed to superintend the affairs of the house .

    Under the early Norman kings , pecuniary assistance and social privileges were accorded to teachers and scholars , until at length

    what we now understand by a university was developed , and the foundation of the first college by "Walter de Merton , in 1264 , was

    succeeded by that of many others in that and immediately succeeding centuries . There are now twenty colleges and five halls in

    Oxford , the difference between the two kinds of foundation consisting in this , that the colleges are endowed corporations , and at the halls

    the students pay rent for their chambers . All these colleges have been amply supported by bequests and donations , and the long list

    of benefactors includes kings , queens , and nobles , church dignitaries of all ranksand a host of private gentlemen and gentlewomen . So

    , liberal have the English proved themselves , age after age , in their endeavors to secure the best of educations for their youth of the

    male sex . "Women have contributed , and that largely , to the foundation and

    endowment of colleges for the use of men in both universities . At Oxford , Joan Davis , wife to a citizen of that town , gave

    certain estates for the establishment of " two logic lectures , " or one in logic and another in philosophyand for an augmentation of the

    , allowance to the masters and fellows . Three centuries earlier , John de Baliol , dying suddenly before he had completed all his intentions

    in regard to the infant college which still bears his name , left no willbut verbally enjoined his wife and his executors to take care of

    , the same . Lady Dervorgille ( which was the name borne by his wife ) accordingly devoted time and substance to the carrying out of

    her husband's wish , and showed no lack of generosity ; in 1282 she appointed statutes under her seal , which are curious as throwing

    light on the collegiate discipline of the period ; in 1284 she bought a tenement for the . " sixteen poor scholars / ' and having repaired

    and enlarged it , gave it to them to dwell in . In the same year she gave them lands in the county of Northumberland , and got her son

    to confirm the statutes she had made ; so that to her faithful energy is owing the early stability of that which her husband had only time

    to commence , and which yet remains , after the lapse of six centuries , a testimony of their united zeal .

    Still speaking of Oxford , —Exeter College found a considerable

    contributor in a Lady Shiers , and Queen Anne in like ' manner

    364 Colleges For Girls.

    364 COLLEGES FOR GIRLS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/4/