WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2532, 5 August 1915, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(Continued from page 2.) THE MISTRESS OF GIRTON I hear that Miss E. E. Constance Jones, tho mistress of Girton College, is resigning her position at the end of tho next academic year, writes a. correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." Miss Jones has been associated with tho fortunes of Girton during the greater part of lier life. She entered as a student in its first decade. The struggling college was opened in the first place at Hitchin in 1869, owing partly to the prejudice of academic Cambridge in those days against <1 women's college in its midst. During Miss Jones's early days as a student it ivas a very different place from tho Girton of to-day. The college, slightly the older of the two womeii s' colleges at Cambridge, began lin its present building at Girton 111 1873 with thirteen students. Miss Jones's first class in the Moral Science Tripos, 1880, was one of the* earliest distinctions won by a Girton student. She was shortly afterwards appointed to the post of lecturer in moral sciences at Girton, which she held until she was elected mistress in 1903. Her best-known work has beon done in logic,_ on which subject she has lectured, written, and examined for many years. Her "Elements of Logic" ana "General Logic" are well known^ to students. In moral philosophy Miss Jones is a disciple of the late Professor Sidgwick, whose lectures on the ethics of Green, Spencer, and Martineau she prepared for publication after his death. In presently controversy on the fundamental problem of ethics Miss Jones is well known as the exponent and defender of the Sidgwickian position. During her twelve years as mistress Girton has grown in reputation, and prosperity. The number of students has now reached the maximum •of a hundred and fifty. Many improvements have been made, and opportunities for research and post-graduato •work very greatly extended. Miss Jones has found time for outside interests and activities. ■ She is on the governing bodies of the University College _of Wales, the Cambridge Training College, and tlio County School for. Girls. . She is a very well-known personality 111 Cambridge, where her active interest in University affairs, the part she takes in its social life, and her unfailing kindness and hospitality have won her universal regard. .