The Scotch Court of Session has decided on the petition
of the lady doctors that female students in the medical classes of the Edinburgh University are entitled to the same treatment as male students, and must, if competent, be admitted to graduate. This is an important victory, but it still leaves the old difficulty, the means of instruction, untouched. The University refuses them unless the female students are taught by themselves,—which is practically impossible—and the Court has no power to compel the University to alter the regulations. It is just possible that the opinion of the highest Court in Scotland may have weight with the University Council, but it is also possible that it may not, and that the ladies may have to wait till some wealthy individual endows the University with a heavy sum on condition that medical education be given to both sexes. That seems to be the only practicable method of compulsion.
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