ABSTRACT
The CHAIR:\UN said that the fee for any course of lectures or any tutorial class is only one guinea; and in the case of ladies engaged in tuition, or qualifying themselves for governesses or teachers, the fee is reduced to half a guinea. There is no other expense except class-books, which can be got for a comparative trifle. There is no matriculation or entrance examination, or, indeed, compulsory examination of any kind. All is voluntary; but, at the same time, there is every opportunity for class examinations and essays during the lectures, and the instruction given through the association, whether in Glasgow or by correspondence, is designed and fitted to enable parties who desire it to pass the Glasgow University local examination scheme, which embraces as preliminary subjects, English history, geography, and arithmetic; and as special subjects, English composition and literature, history and geography, political economy, Latiu, French, German, and mathematics. One important benefit of such examinations is that, in the case, for instance, ot governesses and teachers, they can obtain such certificates of merit as ought to be useful to them in procuring situations, and by-a.nd-by the association hopes to supply them with a diploma of its own. In the recent evidence before the University Commissioners, Pl'OfesS6r Young says: " Seeing that 67 per cent. of the teachers throughout the country are women, it is desirable there should be some provision for giving them a university stamp of some kind." But the ensuing year will, it is hoped, be still more successful. The lectures will, many of them, extend over the whole of next session, and will, in addition to a more enlarged course of logic and physiology by Professors V e~tch and ~f'~endrick, ~m brace lectures on the relatIOn of rehgIOn and philosophy by Princlpa.l Caird, Greek literature by Protessor
