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UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. 203
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In The Years 1857 And 1858, Examinations...
The Preliminary Examination appears to us especially valuable . of the remarks made by the Examiners on the deficiencies of
Many boys apply with painful force , not only to girls , but even to women who call themselves educated . To be capable of keeping * accounts
in an orderly manner is a thing so uncommon as scarcely to be expected of an ordinary young woman ; and to write a plain , clear ,
sensiblebusiness letter , is a rare accomplishment . It can scarcely be doubted , that to direct the attention of girls to these
commonbeneath place subjects the notice , and of to make hihl them educated see that men they would are graduall not considered y work y
a considerable improvement g in female education , . To read aloud intelligentlto write a good handto _sjDell correctly , to explain
country the working and y , something of sums , to of know the something , hy of of one the quarter history of of the our globe own
, geograp , would education be generall but it is y evident acknowled b ged results as desirable that hitherto elements these in essentials a girl ' s y
have not been , sufficiently cultivated , . , The encouragement given to the study of botany , physiology and chemi careful stry observation , not as mere and
valuable barren examination statements feature of fam The of iliar facts desirableness obj , but ects , involving may of be leadin pointed g girls out to strive as another after
. proficiency in some one language , or o ? ie science , instead of aiming , as they commonldoat a meagre and superficial knowledge of a
y , great The many experience things , of must the be Society sufficientl of Arts y apparent abundantl . y proves that ,
and under female judicious student regulations s be , the conducted simultaneous without examin the sli ation htest of risk male of g
testimony passed unpleasan the tness of examinations ten . In Local may May Secretaries of , 1862 the Societ , a of considerable y Institutions of Arts , and number is the to unanimous the of ladies effect
that the admixture of candidates occasioned no inconvenience whatever . Some doubts have been expressed as to the working of such that
by a system the of lication examinations of too strong as regards a stimulus health . g It irl has s mi been ght be feared induced
to overwork app themselvesand so injure , their health . Other advantages would indeed , be dearly purchased at such a price , but lies
it should be remembered that this objection , if valid at all , app some to every system kind of of examinations stimulus . There and prizes are does very not few alread school y s exist in which , and
these are found to act as a spur , more or less powerful . We say nothing here of the far stronger incentive to be found tie in the appro of the
bation of friends and relationsliberally bestowed , as _} prize successful cultivation of those , accomplishments which admit of _disjDlay . Girls are not without stimulus of some sort , though it is
any should not always tim be e guided appear of the in to best the be ri kind workin ght ; direction the g too desideratum . strong If the ly , is the stimulu that remed s their should y ( efforts which at the
lies in the hands of parents and teachers ) consists , not in "
University Local Examinations. 203
UNIVERSITY LOCAL EXAMINATIONS . 203
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 203, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/59/
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