The jubilee of King's College, London, was celebrated yester- day
week by a meeting, at which the extension of its original plan of operations to women was publicly inaugurated, and both Lord Salisbury and Lord Carnarvon dilated on the special necessity for keeping the secular education of women in close connection with their religious education,—Lord Carnarvon adding that no intellectual duty of women should take pre- cedence of their highest duty of all, their duty of cementing the domestic life of the family. But the question surely is whether a certain amount of real education is not essential to enable a woman to do her duty in cementing the domestic life of an educated family. We ourselves should be inclined to think that, so far as • the education of King's College suc- ceeds in embodying genuine religious teaching in its work, that teaching is even more needful to men than to women, inasmuch as women will naturally neglect religion less than men. But, no doubt, in King's College, women will imbibe intellectual education all the more easily and kindly, that it will have no ostentatiously secularistic aspect.
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