16 JUNE 1883, Page 3

Newnham College had a festivity of its own last Saturday,

when a portrait of Miss Clough, who thirteen years ago opened with half-a-dozen women students the institution which now holds -eighty, was presented to Newnham by the former and the pre- sent students. The enthusiasm of the girls appears to have been cordial, though the soprano and contralto cheering rather alarmed the masculine visitors, who were not accustomed to the .collective voices of womenkind. Doubtless, the cry was some- thing like that to which Homer compares the cry of the Trojans,—that which the migrating cranes send forth when they bear destruction to the pigmies. And surely the students of Newnham and Girton, of Lady Margaret Hall and Somerville College, do bode destruction to the pigmy race of merely fashion- able girls.