AN AMERICAN LADY'S SUGGESTION. .

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13926, 3 April 1909, Page 10

AN AMERICAN LADY'S SUGGESTION. .

Madame Thayer has achieved a measure of succefcs in a scheme which she undertook quite unaided to make gofJo 1 the _ deficiency which the Rhode? Scholarship scheme presents, inasmuch as it does not provide for the admissior of women, says tho London correspondent of the Wellington Post. A womar of real culture, a mistress for six year; at Cheltenham under the late Mia? Dorothea Beale, she had a thorough appreciation of tho value of real education, and cf JlO part it must play ir the march of progress. Madame Thayer i r . of American parentage, and so knowstimt country, and is v perhaps Jbcttor qualified to judge of the needs of he» countrywomen than one who approached them from a distance. Her view were readily accepted by many ii anthority, and Madame Thayer &et t' work three years ago with the full re cognition and encouragement of Dr. Parkin and others on the Rhodes Board of Trustees.

The new scheme Mas made known ir the colonies, in America, and indeed over the whole world, with the result that in November, 1908, the first woman scholar on the same* lines as the Rhodes men arrived in • England :md sec to work. Miss Clare Howard canic with the intention of attending' Grrton as a post-grad-iate student, and actually did spend one term there. She start?her second term at Oxford because her purpose is to qualify for a lectureshin in literature on her i;eturn to Colum bia, and at Oxford tho Bodleian Library is of immense value to her. Althoujcl 1 the initiation of the scheme has boldl;. been undertaken on a very small found ation, the income of £300 a year h:v been guaranteed for one 3 ear. and. with a confid"iice that is sublime. Madame Tha\er trusts to women t" help women; and does not hesitate te say that she is sure that not only will the second year's scholarship be forthcoming, but the necessary endowment will be madfe.