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366 COiXE&ES FOR GIRES.
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A. Certain "Last Summer , My Daug Palace...
in the newspapers _regarding the terms both of time and money . Of these colleesthe earliest in foundationand in all ts the
g , , respec Best known and most amply - supported is Queen ' s College , Harley StreetLondonand we cannot do better than quoteas a sort
oftext to , the ort , the advertisement inserted in the " , _Athenasum " for the curren rep t mon , th of January in which we are writing .
corporated _"Queen b ' s Coi / legke l Charter , _Lowjdon 1853 _" , for 67 the and General , 68 , Harley Educatio Street n of , Ladie W . sand
Infor Granting y Certificates Roya of Knowledge . _,, , Visitor . —The Lord Bishop of London .
Principal . —Tlie Yery Rev . the Dean of Westminster . Lady Resident . —Miss Parry .
Monday The C , ollege January and 24 the th . Preparatory Pupils are Class received will as re- boarders open for within tlie Lent the term College on Williams
by Mrs . . to Prospectuses Mrs . Williams may . be obtained on application E . H . at _Pltjmthe the College , M . A ; ., or De by an let . " ter
" We are given to understand , though such points are usually even nlore difficult to settle than the priority of scientific inventions
, which among eminent chemists and mechanicians so often start into simultaneous lifethat the first germs of this now flourishing
institution sprang from , the minds and energies of the Rev . Charles GranfeTL Nicolay and the Rev . Frederick Denison Maurice . What was
the underlying intention is clearly and succinctly expressed by Sir John Forbes . We extract from a report of the annual meeting of
1854 , "I need not remind those assembled here to-day , that the original purpose with which Queen ' s College was foundedwas the
, elevation of female education in England . To this purpose it has remained true throughouthowever it may have varied fro m time
to time the means by whic , h it sought the attainment of this object . It was thought and felt that female education in England was
capable of receiving more order , method , sequence , mutual support of one part by the otherthan any which it yet had obtained ; above
, all , that it might be strengthened and deepened , might be made to rest on broader and securer bases , if the mental energies ,
intellectually stronger , and hitherto better cultivated , of the man , were brought more immediately and directly to bear on the female
mind . " state "At " the it was beginning proposed of the to" educate undertaking governesses , '' Sir John making Forbes 1 the goes college on to
in fact , a normal school of a hih classand in , its earlier it maintained relations of intimacy g and alliance , with ' that admirable years
institution , which , taking another province of work for its own , proposes to assist the temporal needs of ladies devoted to education
, the Governesses Benevolent Institution . " In the year 1853 ,
howover , the Crown granted a charter of incorporation , and the
366 Coixe&Es For Gires.
366 COiXE & ES FOR GIRES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1859, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021859/page/6/
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