EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 267, 20 April 1875, Page 4

EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

The Manchester Guardian's London correspondent writes—“A scheme for the education of women has been undertaken by a private gentleman on a scale which I believe to be unprecedented in either thisor any other country. After building a sanitarium for the insane at a cost, if I remember nghi -;Y of more than £150,000, Mr Holloway, the maker of a well-known patent medicine, has embarked upon a much greater and more important project. He has purchased for seme £25,000 the Mount Lee estate, at Eghara, and on this he purposes to erect an enormous building, to be called a ladies university. More accurately described, it will be a college for the education of women. The institution is intended to accommodate 400 students, under at least twenty professors, and it will hold the same relation to the higher education of women as do the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge to the education of men. The place will not have any charter, and students will be prepared for the Cambridge examinations. Nor will there be any endowment beyond the rents to be produced from the building land of the estate on which the university will be erected. Though the scheme of government—like many of the details—is not yet developed, I shall be accurate in stating that the control of the place will be vested in a board of governors; and it is hoped that with the assistance just referred to, the pupils’fees will be sufficient to make the place self-supporting. It is intended that the instruction shall be of the highest kind that can be obtained, and the fees will be as low as that object will permit. There will be no effort to work the place for a money profit. Though the clerical element may not be entirely absent, it will be far less prominent than at Oxford or Cambridge, and the education will be almost exclusively secular. The scheme is not sufficiently ripe for the selection of professors, but I understand that Mr Fawcett, M.P., is one of Mr Holloway’s chief advisers in this undertaking, so that those who are likely to avail themselves of its benefits may rest assured of a good choice of instructors. The size ef the building will give your readers some idea of the magnitude of Mr Holloway’s undertaking. It will be built in the style of the French Renaissance, and consist of one great quadrangle 500 ft by 400 ft, having projecting wings. The library, the large lec-ture-room, and the dining-hall will each be 100 ft long by 40ft wide, and the chapel will be 140 ft by 40ft, and 60ft high. There will also be thirty-six clase-rooms, each 24ft by 20ft, and three dormitories each 120 ft by 40ft. Each of the latter will be divided into single rooms 14ft by 12ft. I can only state the estimated cost of this great scheme in general terms, but 1 should think that it will be quite £200,000.”