THE COLLEGE OF NURSING.
[To THE Eamon or ens " SPECTATOR.") is to be hoped the generous public will "subscribe largely," as Miss Rimmer suggests in her letter of the 10th inst., to a fund projected to endow a College of Nursing. It Is in order that nurses may command, in the future, proper remuneration for services rendered that such an organisation as the College has been established, but before this can be insisted upon it is neces- sary that the training of nurses should be standardized, and awing to the varied training given by the different hospitals at the present time such standards can only be insisted upon by a central governing body with educational aims. As the conetitu- Hon of the College provides that two-thirds of the Council shall be elected by nurses on the register of the College, it is difficult to understand the picture drawn by your correspondent of the tragic position of future generations of nurses "kept under the power of their employers." With regard to the " Tribute Fund," which is only one branch of the whole scheme, has Miss Rimmer any grounds for supposing that it is to be administered by the Council
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