The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913. WOMEN STUDENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 95, 26 August 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1913. WOMEN STUDENTS.

llecently the Queen opened "the new Bedford College for Women, at lie gent's Park, and in connection witli tiio ceremony the Principal, Miss Margaret Tuke, M.A., gave some interesting details regarding women stu-

dents of our times. To-day, Miss jTuke says, all the Universities oi England are open for women who de-

siro to study in tliem, though Oxford and Cambridge still guard, with jealous care, tlieir degrees, their membership, and their Chairs from the invader. And if the women students of Oxford and Cambridge do not yet amount to a thousand, tin's number is more than trebled in the Universii ties of London and the provinces. As ivith men, so with women, the trend

lot' this advance of the higher learning lias been democratic; though never , has it been in their ease an affair of class. At first, within the reach of those only who could at least afford Lo reside at the college chosen; now, in the newer Universities, where the Jay students far outnumber + he residents, where the county or municipal authorities provide a well-thought-out s n i'ies of scholarships from school to college, the poorest may share with

the woman of means all the good things which a college has to give. > N'or are those l few or wanting in value. ("Indeed," Miss Tiike continues, "if |happiness were a thing that could be computed, I think" the sum of it ev-l porioncod by women students in their'

three college years would be found far' to outweigh that of any other group of persons during the same space of time." Further we are told that the If Diversities are chiefly sought by the, women who must make their way in !he world and equip themselves for]

a career, but that the parents who can afford Leisure for their daughters' still are apt to contemn learning for them as something beneath their notice or likely to damage them in the' marriage market. Those who have ventured out of the gilded fold can tell how worth their while it has been to run this risk and incur this contempt.