HONOURS EQUAL.
The fact that women students havi only won six out of soventy-eigli "firsts” in the various finals at Oxfor; lias started some discussion. 'Hi women, il must he admitted, have gain i'd only a poor proportion of the chie academic honours, and theJiglire doenot at all match the general mimeriea proportion of men and women in residence. Generalisations about the uhili ties of the sexes are empty and dangerous. and in any case the statistics of a single year prove nothing at all. In some classes of study the curriculum ot a hoys' school aims directly at the University and its honours, so that an undergraduate who has it in him to win a '‘first” comes tip with a better chance than a woman of equal ability who has been more widely and less intensively instructed. This is certainly the case in the classical school, towards which the teaching of boys lias been so long and so keenly directed. Whether the boys gain in the long run is quite another matter. - The " Manchester Guardian.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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176HONOURS EQUAL. Hokitika Guardian, 3 February 1928, Page 4
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