The Earl of Hardwicke, who distributed the prizes in the
Cam- bridge School of Art on Tuesday evening, is of opinion that young men who do not need to learn art for a livelihood are more in need of something to keep them from indolence than young women of the same class. We should have thought just the reverse was tree,—that even men with no profession have far more resources, and far more profitable resources, for spending their time than girls with no occasion to support themselves. The Earl pro- _ bably meant that young men might plunge into vice to kill time, from which girls would be saved. From some kinds of vice no doubt they would. But we seriously doubt whether vacancy of mind does not do infinitely more harm on the whole to women than to men. The Earl has never tried being a woman, and has per- haps mixed with few women competent to describe it adequately. He should read Miss Emily Davis's eloquent pamphlet on the horrible vacancy of most girls' lives.
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