THE WOMEN AND THE UNIVERSITIES. [To rim EDITOR OP THE
..Srscravoa."1 SIR,—May I say that women's privileges at Cambridge seem to me minimised in the Spectator for June 25th ? The following are facts :—
1. Women can get permission to use the University Library.
2. Women, on payment of a fee, can attend University science lectures. This carries the use of museums with it. Men are on exactly the same footing.
3. Some Professors' lectures—those on modern history, for example—are practically open, and are better attended by women than men.
4. As regards College lectures, I do not know that there is anything to prevent women attending them, except the etiquette of their own College, or the superiority of their own lectures.
5. Lastly, may I point out that Girton and Newnham axe not
so much in need of University help or countenance as some think p Both Colleges have libraries and laboratories, and the teaching staff at both is excellent. Witness the results !—I am,
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