GIRTON SPINSTERS.
What becomes of the Clinton girl is a question suggested by the itiany successes of Girton and Nowriliam girls in the recent Cambridge Triposes (states a writer in an English paper). While a large proportion of them devote their lives to the higher branches of learning about a fourth of them ultimately beconio married women. As complete a record- as possible is kept Loth at Girlon and Newnham of the after-carecrs of their certiiicatod students. According to Miss E. E. Constance Jones, the mistress at Gii'ton, --T of tho 99<J have beconio married women. The proportion—just under L'a per cent.—is also maintained at Ncwnhain, where MHs .Stephen, tho principal, lias records of 218 Tripos winners who- have married. Fifty-seven former Girlon students are now at the head of high schools; several are doctors or medical missionaries; oue is farming in Rhodesia; and Miss Ethel Sargant, the first woman president of the Botanical Section of the British Association, is also a certificated Girton student. Of Xcwnham students who are now engaged in professional occupations fully 90 pel' cent, are headmistresses, lecturers in colleges, or private tutors. One is research officer of the Society of Psychical Research.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 2
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197GIRTON SPINSTERS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1816, 31 July 1913, Page 2
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