SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12508, 8 April 1909, Page 1

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN.

When Cecil Rhodes drafted his famous scholarship scheme he left out thvrwomeru- But nowadays, when the Higher education of women has become a settled feature of modern life, few people will be found to question- the desirability of providing women graduates with facilities for international intercourse similar, to those enjoyed ' by the Rhodes scholars. The idea; was taken' up some three years ago by ■ Mfs^Thayer,' an American* school ( teacher j who was a mistress' for six years at Cheltenham under the late ) Miss Dorothea Beale, and- this last . November there arrived at Girton Col- i lege, Cambridge, the- first American ( girl graduate under . Mrs Thayer's , scheme. Miss Clara. Hojvard came , with' the* intention of attenSing Girtoh ' - as a post-graduate studentj' and has spent one term there. She starts her , second vfcerin at Oxford because her . purpose is to qualify for a lectureship j in literature on her return to Colum- s bia, and at Oxford the Bodleian Lib- . rary.is of immense value to her. Al- j tliougli jfcHe initia-tioii " ' of tile scheme 1 has boldly been undertaken on a very ' small foundation, the income of £300 j a year has been- guaranteed for one year, and, with a confidence that is . sublime, Madame Thayer trusts to ! women to help women, snd. does not , hesitate ■; to say that not only the sec- ] o'nd ; year's scholarship be forthcoming, ] but the necessary endowment will be , made. -...?.- ' -\