Word: newnham
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...question often asked. No; partly because the students are working-women without leisure for frequent engagements; partly because Cambridge society is busy and absorbed, and does not go out of its way to offer the Annex social culture. Cambridge, England, is said to have adopted Girton and Newnham with motherly cordiality, an example that might be gracefully followed by its American namesake. Do they see much of the Harvard students? is a question that soon follows. No; their work never brings them together, and they show, on all occasions, a wholesome indifference to each other's presence...
...might be advisable to allow its petition. Not, it is to be hoped, should co-education ever be admitted at Harvard to the extent that it holds at Cornell or at Ann Arbor, but perhaps under some modification of the system prevalent at Oxford and Cambridge in Girton and Newnham colleges. On the grounds of economy, if on no other, such a result might be desired...
...opening of University College, London, to women has created the need for a place of residence something like Girton and Newnham Halls at Cambridge. To meet this want a house is to be taken near the college by a number of ladies and gentlemen interested in the higher education of women...
...Newnham Ladies' College, writes the Cambridge correspondent of the Woman's Journal, last term there were sixty-eight boarders and eight out-students, at Girton there were fifty-six boarders. Lectures are given by college teachers at these colleges, but many lectures given to men of the university are open to and largely attended by women students, notably the courses by Prof. Seeley in history, Dr. Foster in physiology, Mr. Balfour in comparative anatomy, Dr. Vines in botany, and Dr. Humphries in human anatomy. During the last eight years, thirty-six Newnham students have gone in for triposes, seven...