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    136 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    1. The Of Relative Women. Valu A Lecture...

    from , ordinary graduates . As , however , he at the saine time in ? forms us that " the use of our present University Degrees is to keep

    a standard before average or even dull boys / ' and that " if they belief cannot that pass women these , not they much are below above par par , mi " g we htj are with encouraged due preparation in the _,

    be able to reach " the low-tide line of average attainment . " To the with question such — a _" Would degree life to take be an ? " obj we ect rep to ly the that average no one young has proposed woman _,

    , In toforce for a any Degree young . If wom any an feel , Examination either that above the kind or would , below or , the make the amount average education , of , stud to " go y a required for a University

    time of tears and desolation and black melanchol , y , " let them by all means turn their attention to more congenial pursuits . The popular

    hop prejudice girls e . of But obtaining is not life so is strong a alread Degree y in too favour too littl powerful e of of learned an a obj stimulant ladies ect to as many to to make ordin young ary the

    women who have no Degree to take . The listlessness , and the want of interest in anything , which are to be observed among women who have passed the first effervescence of youth , are a melancholy

    means sight . to Even be a little overstraining dwould be less of the grievous faculties than , thoug this deadness h by no encourage

    and heartlessness . And , granting , as we are quite ready to do , that for some at least only superior women would offer

    themmovement selves for Degrees would years therefore , we cannot be admit a failure , as . Mr . Other Hutton less affirms exacting , that exa the

    minationssuch as those of the Society of Arts , * to some extent answer the , purpose of a test for ordinary women , who would

    certhat capable tainly some not of be reaching others discouraged , " a the hi from ambitious her level doing . few their If / ' the best had ordinary , shown by the themselves knowled Universit ge y

    _pegree meets the requirements g of women somewhat above the usual standard , and might be , in fact , a sort of Honours Examination

    for themit is difficult to show why they should be excluded from itConsidering , that the Examiners are not asked to make any

    . ments change in in the the smallest character particular of their , papers it is , surel nor y to not alter an their unreasonable

    arrangepared A demand woman to , avail even having themselves if very studie few d of the women the subjects privilege shoul laid d . be The down found case in at is Mr present simp . Hutton ly this pre ' s . -

    formidable programme , comes . to the University , and says— " I have the to gone examine questions throug me h which the also appointed with will the be proposed rest curriculum ? " . We , "Will and cannot you I thin believe do k me I can the that answer favour even

    Mr . Hutton himself would sternly reply , " No ! These studies are Inapposite to the female mind . They are calculated to ' stupefy

    ordinary women instead of to develope them / you must be an

    extnown * ' We than propose they to deserve give some to _Tbe account , in a future of these number Examinati . ons , which are less

    136 Notices Of Books.

    136 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/64/