ABSTRACT
The Report of the School Enquiry Commission bad then just been published, showing that the secondary schools for girls bore "an i!t:finitesimal proportion to the similar endowments for boys," and recommending a acheme by which a number of endowed schools for girls might be provided. The need of some organised body which should give moral support and backbone to the movement in favour of higher education for girls was strongly felt, and, thanks to the labour of Mrs. William Grey and those associated with her, the Women's Education Union was established, and so effectually performed its office that in about ten years it could dissolve with the satisfaction of knowing that the need which had called it into existence had passed away.
