AFTER SCHOOL.
WHAT THE GIRTON GSRLS DO. Once upon a time a girl's education consisted chiefly in learning to do water-colour sketches, to play duets, and to write in an elegant Italian hand. The aim of her teacher w 7 as to provide her witli hobbies suitable for the drawing-room. Nowadays a girl has to be trained not for the drawingroom but for the world. She needs knowledge instead of accomplishments, and so, school being done, she hankers after the university, with its wider learning, its clash of thoughts and enthusiasms. It is good to know that a year at Girton, including fees, board, lodging, furnishing her rooms, and bus fares, only costs the student £l5O. And what does it lead to ? Although the majority of university women become teachers and doctors, largo numbers go into business. Girton girls are now organising departments in sucli different firms as a tramworks, a great London drapery stores, and a famous fish combine.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16780, 24 April 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)
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