University and Educational Intelligence

Abstract

CAMBRIDGE.—As was generally expected, Report B in favour of the foundation of a separate women's university at Cambridge was rejected last week. Three of the six signatories, who produced the scheme after six months' labour, had signed its death-warrant by issuing a fly-sheet against it. The new scheme— C it may well be called—is supported now by a group of fifty-two. It offers women students degrees, teaching by the University for a limited number, also certain undefined privileges, but no power and no votes in the Senate or any controlling body of the University. Even this scheme seems to open up too many and too serious risks to the more conservative members of the University, who are appealing for support for a fourth scheme D. While rigidly limiting the number of women students admitted to the University and ensuring that they shall pay proper fees for teaching and examinations, this scheme limits any advance from the present position to the granting by diploma of titular degrees. Already several defections have taken place from the moderate party to the extreme conservative wing.