in various parts of the country,
to prepare women for the University Higher Examinations. The plan of
these examinations and lectures is something like what I understand to
be the plan at the German Universities. There is no definite curriculum
connected with them. They cover a wide range of subjects, each candidate
making her selection, and preparing herself for examination in one or
more specific subjects, and, if successful, receives a certificate of
proficiency in those, except that certain subjects must be passed before
a certificate is awarded for others.

To meet a widely preferred demand, Cambridge University has recently
opened these "Higher Examinations for Women," to men; and "mixed
classes," as they are called, are now being formed. The university
pledges itself to supply the lecturers, provided classes of a certain
size are formed in towns sufficiently adjacent to be grouped together.
Under this last extension of its educational advantages, the University
proposes that, in each place, a lecture on one subject shall be held at
some hour in the middle of the day most convenient for women to attend;
and one on another subject shall be held in the evening, with reduced
fees, for the benefit of the working classes. Each lecture is open to
any one who will pay the fees; but, as a rule, the higher classes would
go to the day lectures, and the lower classes to the evening lectures.
To supplement these lectures, which in each subject occur but once a
week, in each of a group of three towns, what is called a "class" is
held on a second day, when, by the payment of a small additional fee,
any one can go for further instruction upon any point which he was not
able to grasp from the lecture. The lectures recommend a course of
reading, and suggest subjects for investigation, just as is done by the
lectures in the university. These examinations, as I understand, are
considered as severe as the examinations for the same subjects in
preparation for the B.A. degree at the university. The plan is to carry
systematic instruction in the branches of university education into all
the large towns, and to keep it at a cost that can be afforded by women
and working men.

I have spoken only of the Cambridge University Examinations; but, though
Cambridge has taken the lead in this work, the other universities have
followed along at more or less remote intervals, and the London
University has, here as elsewhere, placed its standards