English poetry -- 19th century; Women -- History; Women -- Social conditions; Women -- Suffrage
It is of good omen that the precedent thus set in America is finding a
following in our own isle also. All honour to the University of St.
Andrews, concerning which sundry newspapers of 15th March, 1892, relate
that: “The Senatus Academicus of the University of St. Andrews has
agreed to open its classes in arts, science, and theology to women, who
will be taught along with men. The University will receive next year a
sum of over £30,000 to be spent on bursaries, one half of the sum to be
devoted to women exclusively. Steps are being taken to secure a hall of
residence in which the women students may live while attending the
University classes.”
_Id._—“... _in purity and truth,
Through plastic childhood and retentive youth_.”
“Je voudrais que ce petit volume apportât au lecteur un peu de la
jouissance que j’ai goûtée en le composant. Il complète mes _Souvenirs_,
et mes souvenirs sont une partie essentielle de mon œuvre. Qu’ils
augmentent ou qu’ils diminuent mon autorité philosophique, ils
expliquent, ils montrent l’origine de mes jugements, vrais ou faux. Ma
mère, avec laquelle j’ai été si pauvre, à côté de laquelle j’ai
travaillé des heures, n’interrompant mon travail que pour lui dire:
‘Maman, êtes-vous contente de moi?’ mes petites amies d’enfance qui
m’enchantaient par leur gentillesse discrète, ma sœur Henriette, si
haute, si pure, qui, à vingt ans, m’entraîna dans la voie de la raison
et me tendit la main pour franchir un passage difficile, ont embaumé le
commencement de ma vie d’un arôme qui durera jusqu’à la mort.”—Ernest
Renan (“Souvenirs d’Enfance.”).
5.—“_Their mutual sports of sinew and of brain._”
“No boy nor girl should leave school without possessing a grasp of the
general character of science, and without having been disciplined more
or less in the methods of all sciences; so that when turned into the
world to make their own way, they shall be prepared to face scientific
problems, not by knowing at once the conditions of every problem, or by
being able at once to solve it, but by being familiar with the general
current of scientific thought, and by being able to apply the methods of
science in the proper way, when they have acquainted themselves with the
conditions of the special problem.”—T. H. Huxley (“Essay on Scientific
Education”).
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