There appears to be a special interest felt at Cambridge
about the education of women. Not only have the managers of the Hitchia College for Women provided their professorial teaching from Cambridge, and given notice of their intention to move to the immediate neighbourhood of Cambridge as soon as may be ; but at Cambridge itself a strong Committee has been formed, 'qnite independent of the mabagers of this College, to provide special lectures for women, and a special residence for lady students, to which it has added the offer of three or four exhibi- tions from various sources, of which one of 1:1 per annum, one -of £30, one of .£25, and one of £.20 will be awarded for the suc- cessful candidates in examinations to be held in July next. Miss A. J. Clough presides over the house opened for the residence of women coming from a distance to study in Cambridge, and there are already five or six members of it ; the terms being £20 per term (of eight weeks), and only £15 for women who are intended for teachers. Lectures (chiefly intended to prepare women for the Cambridge examination for women over the age of 18) have been delivered in Cambridge to from 70 to 100 students during the last term, and they are, of course, to be continued this term. Mr. H. Sidgwick, of Trinity College, Cambridge, who appears to be the mainspring of the scheme, will furnish all necessary informa- tion on its details. Our only doubt would have been whether it might not have been wiser to give the exhibitions to the Hitchin College, which is certainly the completest and most im- portant attempt to improve women's education, the solid success of which would be an unspeakable benefit to women. Of this, however, the Cambridge educational reformers are themselves the best judges, and it is possible that the more there are of in- dependent demands for help of this kind, the more they will be responded to.
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