Members of the Senate of Cambridge University will have the
opportunity on Thursday next, October 20th, of voting for a very reasonable compromise on the question of degrees for women. The Senate rejected last December a proposal to admit women to full membership of the University, and last February it rejected a scheme or a separate women's university. It is now asked to give degrees to the women who earn them, on certain conditions. The number of women students is to be limited ; discipline will be maintained among them by women
officials. Women will be excluded from the Senate but will have a Representative Board with similar powers. A woman, if elected to a professorship, will not control the department as a man would do. The men's colleges will be forbidden to admit women as members or as fellows. This compromise has been accepted by the women's colleges, though it does not meet their wishes. They see that women students under the new plan will obtain the full benefits of the education given at Cambridge, though they will not have an equal share in the government of what is primarily a men's university. Wo trust that this sensible proposal will be carried, thus ending a tiresome controversy by agreement within the University itself.
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