WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14582, 3 February 1921, Page 3

WOMEN AT CAMBRIDGE

SEX PREJUDICE. (From our London Correspondent.) LONDON, Dee. 2. Poor old Cambridge, still strongly held in I In; grip of the dead hand, is ye I (hiding room enough to writhe in, and that sign of health encourages the (lioughl that an impending light will 'how (hat tile last dilcli of the diehard' in places -alleged to he educational. and not mere technique factories. has been won by the party of procress. Cambridge has the poor distinction of being the only university here at which women arc not admitted to every department of study and to the acquisition of degrees on the same terms as men. Even Cambridge has been constrained to give them a sort of rigid, to stand on the lower rung of the educational ladder, but at that a considerable section of the professors and others would stop, on the ground that there should be one university in England "controlled alike in its education, its discipline, and its social life for men." Reminds one of the answer made by a judge to the thief who pleaded, "A man must live, my Lord." "I don't see the necessity," said bis Lordship. Once more is the old exclusive sex claim put lorward, as though Cambridge University was divinely ordained to be the property, not of persons seeking education, but of themselves. And once more we sec university men, who ought to be persons of "light and (he march of intellect," deliberately chousing the rule of obstructionists. At Ibis time of day the idea of any responsible men to whom the advantage of some education has been given trying to fence in what should be the home of broad and cultured thought with mere sex prejudice is almost unthinkable. The decision to be taken next week will show whether the dominant spirit at Cambridge is or is not to Die dark