"SWEET GIRL-GRADUATES."

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2764, 27 December 1871, Page 2

"SWEET GIRL-GRADUATES."

In the Matriculation and Civil Service Examinations at the Melbourne University, in the October term, appear the names of two young ladies-Miss Bogle and Miss Creed —both of whom passed, and thus were qualified to be admitte I as undergraduates, although by what appears to be a hasty decision of the University Council, admission is denied them for the present. The Am* Iralasian expresses regret at the decision of the Council, and says the ladies deserved better treatment for the energy and perseverance which they had to exercise to bring their studies to a successful termination. Unlike students of the other sex at the University, these } oimg ladies had constant demands made upon their time and attention in other directions, and, remarks our contemporary, if we dwell somewhat emphatically upon the point, it is because their conduct offers a refutation to the common error that mental improvement can only be acquired by the sacrifice on the part of a woman of her domestic du ios and her domestic influence. We have reason to know that there is scare ly anything which it is becoming for a woman to know or to do, within her own peculiar sjdiere, which has not been diligently practised ’ by one or other of these students. Tu the ouc case, to the usual ladylike accomplishments of;excellence in ;dl useful needlework, is added aii extensive acquaintance with the best and ipost serious literature of the day. In the other i very domestic employment, in the dairy, in the kitchen, in the laundry, in the school, in the vineyard, has been unwearyiugly practised during nearly the whole tifpe i i which these difficult and previously wholly unknown subjects of Greek, Latin, Euclid, , weic being mastered. Besides taking honours in French, both these ladies have passed in Greek, Latin, English, General and Physical Geography, while one was successful in Euclid aud the other in Algebra. The examiners from extra press of work bad to employ graduates of the Univeisity to correct the papers, and those appear to have had a high standard of excellence, and honours have been given sparingly. Out ox about 20 ) candidates S6 only have matriculated, and only five taken full honours, so that the examination may bp considered to have been a severe one \ yet we find young ladies ranking in Latin, Euolid, and Algebra, with I'r Bromby’s best pupils, and holding their own whore many an old stager of the grammar schools and colleges has been plukce l. One young lady, Miss Thom*

son, has set the example of qualifying in a •ingle subject, thus ohtaiuinin- a certificates that she knows it.