WOMEN'S COLLEGES.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:']
SIRS Will you allow me, while thanking you sincerely for your advocacy of the higher education of women, to call attention to a singular misstatement in your otherwise well-informed article of December 4? You say that the" extended preparation" which women who are to be teachers require no less than men, "something in the nature of a University course," can now be only obtained at Girton. The fact is that for some years past courses of academic instruction of an advanced kind have been offered by the Associa-
ton for Promoting the Higher Education of Women in Cambridge to all women who fulfil the condition of "residing in some house approved by the Committee" of the Association.
Already several students who have availed themselves of this instruction have passed with distinction examinations similar in all xespects to the University Tripos Examinations, and there are now (among others) twenty-seven such students residing at Newnham Hall, a house which has been recently opened in Cambridge for their reception, under the management of Miss Clough.
It is important not to overlook these facts, because the simul- taneous success of two schemes, started independently, and differing in certain important respects, affords a better proof of the strength of the demand among women for academic education than the success of Girton alone could do.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Observatory, Cambridge, December 7. J. C. ADAMS.
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