Category: History - British
In tracing the history of educational institutions and of other foundations existing for the public good, we find it necessary to distinguish those that had and those that had not a definite beginning. Some of our colleges and great schools have--so to speak--sprung, adult and...
In tracing the history of educational institutions and of other foundations existing for the public good, we find it necessary to distinguish those that had and those that had n...
2. CHAPTER IIThe early part of the eighties was full of events for the women students of Newnham and their supporters. In these years they obtained (1) a fixed legal constitution; (2) a seco...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe time between the recognition of Newnham College by the University of Cambridge, in 1881, and the deeply mourned death of its chief founder and first Principal, in February 1...
4. CHAPTER IVThe loss of Miss Clough seemed to remove the College from its early--one might say heroic--period to the regions of ordinary history. Yet there was something uncommon in the cir...
5. CHAPTER VThe years which elapsed between the death of Professor Sidgwick and the retirement of Mrs. Sidgwick from the principalship at the end of 1910 were marked by progress on various...