FEMALE STUDENTS AT OXFORD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 250, 3 April 1880, Page 3

FEMALE STUDENTS AT OXFORD.

The “DaHy N6\vs” remarks that i I:e education of women at Oxford seems to be taking two courses —one very ur etui and legitimate, the other scarcely so laudable'. The young ladies who ;have joined the new Halls, and are minding their books, are following the; first course ; the young la.lies who faint iri the lecture room of the professor cf Fine Art are following the second. The successor of Mr Buskin, Mr Richmond, has been delivering his first address, which contained- a giaceful compliant, to the late professor. u The room was inconveniently. crowded by schoolgirls and other ladies, several of whom were -removed iua-fainting condition.” The ■■'■' -compliant paid to Mr Richmond was ’ truly classical, though inconvenient. f >When ..the o plays of.iEschylub wore ~ - acted, Mrs Browning tells us that— The woman swooned 1 To see so awful.when he frowned. ‘ It is absured to suppose that Mr Richmond was “so 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 Baalston’s lectures, too, have been - o crowded that he has been obliged a t times to migrate from the Talorion < o the Museum, with all the children in Oxford following him, as they followed the paid piper in the kg- nd. To satisfy this en husiasm for study among the fair and young a popular professor shou’d either hold forth in the Theatre, or occupy, the stene pulpit in ' Magdale: e quadrangle.