31 AUGUST 1895, Page 3

Woman's Signal gives a very appalling instance of the want

of deference in which the Edinburgh students hold the ladies who compete with them in their study of geometry. The front bench in Professor Tait's class to which the Professor was lecturing on solid geometry, is assigned to eight students of the fair sex. "An octahedron, gentlemen," said the Pro- fessor, " is a body with eight plain faces. For example," he was going on,—when a student from behind interrupted him by giving the example that seemed to him the nearest at hand, " Front bench." Probably the faces were not specially plain at all, but only too shrewd in expression for the young gentle- man's taste.