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To Tlie Editors Of Tlie English Woman's ...
Boards dates on , pay payment ing one of guinea a fee of a-year 2 s . 6 d to . " the It Society is no doub of Arts t an , may inconvenience admit candi to
-. be candidates necessary to to reside take at lod a g distance ings for from the the purpose local of centr attendin e , but g it examinations could hardly than which four only subjects occupy in three one hours year . and _£ _To the candidate great majority is allowed confine to take themselves up more
to two or three . A great many , take up only one , but in all cases attendsep ance arat is e required journey . at It the will Preliminary be observed Examination that the difficulties , which would pointed involv out e by a our correspondent lequallto male candidates under similar
circumstanceswho are app however y , generall y y better able to bear the necessary _^ expenses , . The onl , y remedy would be an increase in the number of Local Boards . —Er > . ]
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Female Education in _Int > ia . —On the 13 th of December , 1862 , Sir Bartle Frere presided at a distribution of prizes and scholarships to the girls _attendin bayassembled g the schools in the of garden the Students -house ' of Literary Mr . Manguldass and Scientific _JSTathooboy Society , Bo . m Of
the able , 403 members pupils of on all the sections roll more of than the Hindoo 300 were community present , daug , not hters a few of of respect them - from the families in the front rank of local society . _The report , which was these schools
read which by had Rao their Saheb rise Wishwanath in 1849 it recognised ] _STarryan , gave the fact a history that prej of udices against , the European system of female ; education still linger in native society in
< Indiabut stated that schools could be easily multiplied in Bombay but for the contrast expense , between . Sir the Bartle little Frere band , of in Brahminee addressing the irls assemblage he saw 28 , noticed s the in gyearago
; taug the old first palace ht reading school in Poonah established and writing , and the for almost women present by of scene stealth the , upper when in the classes they verandah beheld in Western of the a children ruinous India , intelliHindoo in
of some of the wealthiest and most gent gentlemen Bombay their society gathered prizes would togeth before succeed er in a large such in securing numb and influential er to s in the that women comp magnificent any of India . He mansion the had full no benefits to doubt receive the of
as writing a " the European man , and , the account system fit comp s , of but anion Education that of the the woman , " which educated should meant man be not as . merel comp The letel y difficulty reading y educated , with and
.. regard to means would vanish with greater progress ; at present a few .. of rupees even seemed the richer a very members large sum of society to pay , but for the before instruction long they of would the . daug consider _hters reallsound education for their
• but no daug expenditure of hters Europe . It , was th too at the no great fixed nation to and could secure delib have a erate a op pretence y inion not to the of Eng character land onl of y a , the in
_-civilized nationin which the women were not on a par with men point women Some of of was refinement the quite princi , a pal departure and classes education were from . then the He ancient examined added that traditions b _^ the Hindoo non of - the gentlemen education Hindoos of in .
reading of the Guzeratee , grammar and , geograp Marathee hy , arithmeti Hindoo c , irl and s sang general y some knowled gurbees ge . the A first few g the scholarshiand ,
44 Queen Victoria . " Lady Frere distributed ps prizes
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/71/
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