Women's Educational Progress: Agricultural Schools and Cambridge Lectures
—There is steady progress all over the world in recognition of the claims of women to the best educational facilities. In France this spirit of progress has been carried into the domain of agriculture, and agricultural schools for girls have been established. One of the principal of these is that of Darnetel, near Rouen. It was started by a Sister of Charity and two little discharged prison-girls, with a capital of one franc, and is now worth $165,000. There are in this establishment 300 girls, from six to eighteen years of age. The farm, entirely cultivated by them, is over 400 acres in extent. The pupils are in great demand all over Normandy on account of their skill. They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm-managers, dairy-women, and laundresses. If they want a home, they can always return to Darnetel. In England many women are now attending the lectures in Cambridge; and an appeal has been made to the vice-chancellor of the university, praying that the Senate will grant to properly qualified women the right of admission to the examinations for university degrees. In this country the number of colleges and universities offering their lectures to women is yearly increasing.