Women At University Every Faculty Flooded

Southland Times, Issue 23336, 21 October 1937, Page 14

Women At University Every Faculty Flooded

Coolest Gloves. The coolest gloves for a hot day are those of linen with palms of stockingette. You can have long ones with embroidered backs for wear in the afternoon, and plain ones of gauntlet shape for wear with a tailored suit.

•THERE are only two students in the -*• second-year class of the Architectural Course at Sydney University, and both are women. Of a total of 26 students taking the course, which occupies five years, nine are women.

.i is 56 years since the first women were permitted to enrol at the University. In 1882 Misses Mary Elizabeth Brown and Isola Thompson — both University bursars —entered and won their Bachelor degrees for the Faculty of Arts.

In the following year, two more women—Misses Lily Dick and Jane Foss Fussell—took the path carved by their pioneering sisters. To-day nearly 300 matriculated women are in the Faculty of Arts alone, more

than 100 of them in their first year 1 Their chosen subjects range from languages to mathematics, psychology, philosophy and the Sciences of Zoology and Botany. Doctors-to-Be. In the Faculty of Medicine, the growth in numbers has been tremendous. Of the present students in attendance, one in every eight is a girl! This year, 29 girls, some of them exhibitioners, enrolled. The figures for the other “years” are:—Second year (19), third year (21), fourth year (15), fifth year (14), and final year (9). Two faculties which continue to attract unprecedented interest from women are those of Veterinary Science and Agricultural Science. Barely 15 years ago, the total number of students in each was little more than the present-day enrolment of women. In veterinary science there are 13 women, with six in their first year. This, even in spite of the recent lengthening of the course to five years. Agriculture first year boasts of four girls, with a total of nine women in the faculty. Dentistry claims eight. Four of them are only a year from graduation and three are "freshmen.” Taking Law. Thirteen women are in the lecture halls at the Law School. The stimulating example of. Miss Jean Malor, one of last year’s graduates with first-class honours, may account for the 10 girls in first year studying Roman law. Constitutional law and the law of contracts. There are 48 and 42 in the first two years in the Faculty of Science. In both of these years there are only six more men in the aggregate. Thirty girls are hopeful of taking B.Sc. degrees at the November examinations. The diffuse nature of the Economics four years’ degree requirements apparently hold no terrors. Forty-two girls a: aiming for a bachelor degree. Eleven are in first year, 15 in second, 10 in third, and six are doing finals. Uninvaded, the Schools of Engineering provide a sanctuary for males. Altogether, there are more than 600 matriculated women undergraduates proceeding to degrees—Arts 284, Science 120, Medicine 107, Economics, 42, Law 13, Veterinary Science 13, Agricultural Science 9, Architecture 9 and Dentistry 8.