A LADY FELLOW OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXIII, Issue 1141, 17 July 1896, Page 6

A LADY FELLOW OF THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY.

— . — __♦ Year by year the representatives of the ' superior sex 1 are extending their conquests in those domains of science which have up till recently been regarded as preserves for the 'lords of creation,' and ' sweet girl graduates ' are now carrying tl»e highest honours in the scientific classes at uur Universities and other seats of learning. And now, in the year of grace 1896, for the first time in the history of the Highland Society, a young lady comes np to the annual examinations in Agricultural Science and carries off the the diploma. The young lady who has accomplished this unique feat is Miss Margaret Neil son Fraser, a sister of Mr Alex. Fraser, Isle Farm, Whithorn. Miss Fraser has for the last two winters been a student at the Glasgow Technical College. In 1894 she was awarded first prize for drawing at that College, and last session she won first prize in the classes for Agricultural Botany and Agricultural Chemistry at the Glasgow Technical College. In 1894 she taught the Aspatria College students butter and cheese making for some time, and in the same year, as well as in the following year, she was appointed by the Caithness County Council to give lectures and demonstrations in butter-making. Her lectures and demonstrations in Caithnessproved exceedingly successful.and she was recently appointed" dairy instructess at Glasgow Technical College in room of Miss Christopherson, who hjid been appointed to a similar post at the Kilmarnock Dairy Institute. She has won golden opinions all round wherever she has gone, and now she has eclipsed all her former achievments by caking the diploma of the Highland Society. The gentlemen who act aa examiners in the Highland Society's exams, do not in their official report state the percentage of markd which the successful students receive in the exams, for the different subjects, but it is an open secret that Miss Fraaer . had practically full marks in almost every subject. She is the first lady student who has ever become a Fellow of the Highland Society, and in the words of the popular refrain she is a "jolly good Fellow."— N.B. Agriculturist.