The Convocation of Oxford on Tuesday gave a remarkable and
crushing majority in favour of the statute sanctioning the admission of women to certain of the degree examinations and the regular classification of the results. Convocation declared fur the statute by 464 votes against 321, in the fullest House which has been known in our time. The Senior Proctor, who had to count the "Ayes," was, it appears, somewhat embarrassed by the number of his voting papers, an embarrassment which gave occasion to the vigilant undergraduates to shout to him, "Why don't you call one of the ladies to do it ?" Even the Oxford housemaids appear to have felt a strong party interest in the result, the story being that one of them congratulated her mistress on the victory of the women ; and being asked how she knew that they had gained one, replied that she had watched Professor Burrows on his ominously early return home, and seen by his discomfited face that Convocation had shattered his hopes. Let us trust that "the higher education" may never blunt the acuteness of these instinctive feminine perceptions.
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