Girton College, Cambridge,—the College for' Women,—in spite -of the large
addition to its buildings begun in 1876 and finished last year, is again full to overflowing, and in need of new accommodation. Forty girls are now in residence, and of these forty, only six will finish their academical course in June next and !date 'vacancies for others ; and as sixteen more students were affinitted for the academical year now in progress, there can be no-doubt that the applications for admission will be far in excess or the room, especially as the College is even now overcrowded, forty- being accommodated in space intended only for thirty- eight. The new extension proposed will add nineteen sets of rooms for students, two lecture-rooms, a sick-room, further provision for servants, a third staircase, and rooms for an assistant-lecturer,—and the estimated cost of the additions is £7,000. The Committee add that the financial condition of the College is so far satisfactory, that the fees of the student-boarders, after covering expenses, leave a margin which has been carried to the building fund. It would, however, be impossible to make
the College what it ought to be, if the building fund could not be raised almost entirely front voluntary subscriptions. It is hoped, therefore, that the friends of the higher education of women will again come forward, to extend the range of that most salutary influence which they have created in founding Girton College.
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