ABSTRACT
J9cent. 0/ the Montla. 19 but the additional work taken by this year's students raised the whole number of classes from nine to fifteen. Of the 265 individual students who attended these classes in the term just closed, 3 were attending 5 classes each, 2 were attending 4 classes each, 10 were attending 3 classes each, 63 were attending 2 classes each, 187 were attending one class each. The work that has advanced thus far owes what success it has at· tained to the quiet endeavour simply to meet such demand for a higher education as is fuund really to exist in London among ladies whose schooltime is over. The educational resources of a London college, attended by more than 900 regular students, apart from the six or seven hundred boys in the school associated with it, are being made available for the higher education of women, who may take, of all that belongs to their general culture, as much or as little as they are themselves really disposed to take. There are examinations for those who wish to be examined, and certificates to be earned by those who wish to earn them. There are courses of eighteen lectures and there are courses of fifty lectures. As to SUbjects, as to length of courses, as to examinations, in all that belongs to the liberal education there is a supply offered from year to year which more than meets the present demand, and is apt for expansion as demands increase. That some hunmeds of ladies are studying at University College session after session is, no doubt, good evidence of a step in civilisation that bas been made within the last ten years; but, so far as this experiment is concerned, the women of London h~\ve not yet won all that they can win by simply entering at all the doors that are thl'own open to them and taking all they can get. The subjects DOW being tanght are the languages and litel'<.I.tures of England, France, Germany, and Italy; Latin in elementary and more advanced classes; Greek, Mathematics, Logic, Physiology, and Hygiene: also English Constitutional History, to which will be added in the next term a course of General English History, and perhaps a course of Physip.s. Beside these courses, which are for ladies only, four classes in the college (those of Jurisprudence, Roman Law, Political Economy,
and Geology) admit ladies as regular students, and all teaching in the }'ine Art department is open to students of both sexes. REPORT OF THE COLLEGE FOR WORKING WOMEN.
