ABSTRACT
College, Dublin, has beeu exciting much interest among all who are working for the higher education of women, and much correspondence has taken place in the Dublin newspapers. As long ago as June, 1894, a deputation from the Association of Irish Scho olmistresses waited on the Academic Council to ask their support in extending to women the educational advantages of Trinity College, and to lay before them the following proposals: That women should be admitted to degrees, examinations and honours, lectures (not pass lectures) in arts, paying full fees, and also to the medical school. The same suggestions were also laid before the board of Trinity College, but though the deputation was favourably received, no formal answer was received till January 26 of the present year, when, in answer to a letter from the Association, they were informed that the Board continued to give the subject "their mo.st earnest consideration." Being pressed for a more definite reply, after some further delay and correspondence the Association were informed in March that the Board had submitted the case to Counsel, a.nd that the result was that in the opinion of Counsel the Board had no power to admit women as students to lectures and examinations with a view of qualifying them to be recipients, or to their admission to scholarships, fellowships, or degrees in the University, without an Act of Parliament, and further (in the following month) that "the Board are not prepared to promote legisle.-
