British freewomen : $b Their historical privilegeStopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
History
British freewomen : $b Their historical privilege
Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)
Women -- Great Britain; Women -- History
“5. Women who had begun their studies in recognised University classes
before this date to be admitted to graduation, as if they had been
members of the University and, if they had passed in the specified seven
subjects qualifying for M.A., to receive that degree without further
examination.”
The result of this concession is that eight ladies received the degree
of M.A. of Edinburgh University, and several more will be qualified
through the next Examination. Those who take their Degree will be
admitted to the General Council. Therefore, Edinburgh stands at the head
of the Scotch Universities in the order of time of the admission of
women. She will have several women graduates before any other University
can present one. That, of course, was only made possible by her efforts
commencing earlier, and her work being more systematic. One hundred and
thirty-four women in all have taken at least three of the subjects
towards their Degree Examination. Edinburgh has simply admitted women to
mixed Classes in the Old University, with all privileges in Arts. About
one hundred and twenty women have matriculated this session. A Hall of
Residence is now being built for women, to be called the Masson Hall, in
commemoration of the life-long devotion of Professor David Masson to the
cause of Women.
The New University Building, the School of Medicine, is still closed.
But women have now fuller opportunities granted them of studying in the
“Medical College for Women,” 30 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, with liberty
of clinical instruction in the Royal Infirmary. This College was founded
by the Scottish Association for the Medical Education of Women, the
arrangements for teaching and fees being the same as those of the School
of Medicine, the Teachers and Lecturers being duly qualified Lecturers
of the School of Medicine, and the classes recognised as the Extra-Mural
School. Since degrees can be taken in London, Victoria, and elsewhere,
the prime difficulties in the medical education of women are practically
overcome. Thirty-four women at present attend these classes.
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