WOMEN'S EDUCATION IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 328, 15 October 1908, Page 3

WOMEN'S EDUCATION IN GERMANY.

' The' German Empire has at Inst granted to women'the privilege of; admission to university training. _ Any German : womansubject of the Empire can, after matriculating, attend a university oil the. samo footing as. a man. Prussia has been a little ahead of the Empire on this question. At . the Berlin University 449 women attended lectures during the summer term 1 of 1907, while during tho whiter *term 0f1907-08, 753 . women studied there. Ten women took, their medical degree, 5 and two women became doctors 1 of philosophy. Many women eagerly seize the opportunity of participating in scientific workj .iwhile musical ■ history,. philology, phy-siology-,1 botany,-arid'zoology .claim" many ardent'admirers 1 atnong our sex-;'' Several women' havo earned name'and fame in the branch of study they have specialised in. and if any fault can be found with them, it .is that they take themselves almost too 6eriously.,

Thej Hamburg educational authorities are showing the way in a reform which may have incalculable influenco on German social life of. the future.. They have nominated a woman to:be Head of the domestic economy department. at tho Hamburg, elementary, schools. This lady has for a few .years directed | a "special school for servants, inaugurated ; by private enterprise and attended yearly by about eighty students, where the pupils are taught in a most thorough way theoretically and practically, how to satisfy the most exacting mistress. Now it is intended to make the study obligatory, "and to'extend it to between thirty aud forty schools. '