26 FEBRUARY 1881, Page 3

Tlio resolution admitting women to examination, intim various Tripes Examinations

at Cambridge was carried on Thursday by a majority so vast, as to suggest that the distaete for the higher education of women has almost disappeared, even among the Con- servatives of a very Conservative University., The right aths women to be examined and arranged in their due ossder was carried by 398 to 32, though some 4oubt still exista as to the legality Of the construction seldels includes women amongst the " persons " to whom tlia Vniversity is revirod to give the benefit of its exansiesatinme The vote is a very remarkable sign of the tissaess