FEMALE STUDENTS AT OXFORD.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1868, 18 February 1880, Page 3

FEMALE STUDENTS AT OXFORD.

The " Daily News " remarks that the education of women at Oxford seems to be taking two courses —one very useful and legitimate, the other scarcely so laudable. The young ladieß who have joined the new Halls, and are minding their books, are following the first course; the young ladies who faint in the lecture room of the Professor of Fine Art are following the second. The successor of Mr Buskin, Mr Richmond, has been delivering his first address, whioh contained a graceful compliment to the late professor, " The room was inconveniently crowded by schoolgirls and other ladieß, Beveral of whom were removed in a fainting condition." The complimont paid to Mr Richmond was truly classical, though inconvenient. When the plays of iEschylus were acted, Mrs Browning tells us that—

The women swooned To see so awful when he frowned,

It is absurd to suppose that Mr Richmond was "bo awful" when he lectured as to make ladies swoon, and probably we should attribute the accident to the heat and the crowded state of the room. When Mr Buskin first lectured, many years ago, ample verge and room enough was found in the Theatre. Mr Ralstcm'a lectures, too, have been bo crowded that he has been obliged at times to migrate from the Taylorion to the Museum, with all the children in Oxford following him, as they followed the pied piper in the legend. To satisfy this enthußiaem for study among the fair and young a popular professor should either hold forth in the Theatre, or occupy the stone pulpit in Magdalene quadrangle.