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THE GRADUATION OF WOMEN. 273
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has contend less tendency liberal education to educe them be literall than y has mental man exercise ' s . If , then where , as are we
sources women , than to seek those , or resorted why should to b they men seek ? , What this exercise is there from in ancient other y
What which or modern is repugnant the language intellectual s to , mathematics woman pursuit ' s n s ature , more or the or congenial b elements eyond to her of her powers scienc ? And e ? ,
are incapacitate to wh the y should systematic the her devotion in and mor degree of e or herself for less the severe for punctual a certain cultivation and number exact of fulfilment her of y min ears d
of her more peculiarl any y womanly duties in the family and the household ? We venture to affirm that if half the time which in three in
eases out of four is spent by young girls and young women tion listless of useless idleness , in vague lishments and were aimless occup stud ied y , by and them in in the preparing acquisi-
first for tlie m accomp atriculation exam , ination , and then for the B . A . pass examination of the Universit fitted y than of London , they would to lay enter the
part upon of domestic wives and life mothers far better , and to be ornaments they are and now blessings p to their homes
hun But dre this ds of , . after women all , who is in have one no sense immediate an extreme prospect case . of There marriage are , to their
certificate bread but a very as governesses of immediate capacity or and and schoolmistresses pressing cultivation prospect obviousl , . proceeding To of them h be aving of , at from the any earn a rat well atest e , a -
known and influential source , would y gre value . evidence The very of fact its b of eing the a demand ine being one . made There , is , is we nothing submit , so strong very
genu inviting examination beforehand room—or in even regular in the and first laborious two letters app of lication the Al — pha in bet an , be ridiculous
to particularl tempt young y when women in a to position ask for which all this it , unless is said they would feel that there is ,
some substantial advantage to be gained . Have men no faith in consciousness the womanly mode of the sty hi to h which and they hol appeal mission —no which belief they in claim woman for ' s y
her wants —no ? reliance It is irritating upon g a woman to listen ' s power to sonorous of judging and of hig her h-flown own the world
panegyric while Practicall it is coup of y we woman led believe with ' s a nature th de at ep scarcel distrust and woman y of any her ' woman s common work would in would sense proceed suffice ! ,
beyond the mere ordinary Bachelor ' s degree , as this for to strain the the upon graduate purposes a woman herself we ' have s powers , we indicated b . elieve But , , that without apart the from involvin chan the ge direct we g any are ben severe advo efit - the
_cating _education would of wome have n throug most hou important t the country influence , whe for ther good intended upon for
The Graduation Of Women. 273
THE _GRADUATION OF WOMEN . 273
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/57/
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