[476] October 1906. There are at Newnham 6 scholarships worth £50 a year, 1 of £70, 1 of £40, and 2 of £35. There is also a studentship of £75 and another of £80 a year, tenable for one year or more. Of these, two are for natural science students, one for a classic.
Through the munificence of private donors Newnham has been enabled to appoint 4 fellows of the college, and a fund is being formed which it is hoped will place these fellowships on a permanent basis.
[477] These include many who read for a tripos, and a large number who in early days passed in the various Higher Local “Groups,” besides all who have taken special courses of study.
[478] Professor Seeley’s rendering of her views for use at the public meeting at Birmingham. In a leaflet appealing for funds, Miss Clough said that the Cambridge lectures had been “a free-will offering” made to women by members of the university; here at Cambridge women of “different occupations, different stations in life, and different religious persuasion” were brought together to receive in common “at least some share of academic education.” “If we are right,” she says, “in thinking our object one of national importance” the expense should not be thrown on Cambridge residents, “much less should members of the university, who are already giving their time ungrudgingly, be called upon to give money also.” The journey to Birmingham was made with Miss M. G. Kennedy, and Mrs. Fawcett addressed the meeting.
[479] It is interesting to note that there have been several students at both colleges bearing old Cambridge names, some known there in the xii, xiii, xiv and xv centuries: Bassett, Mortimer, Frost, Gaunt, Bingham, Booth, Parker, Alcock, Skelton, Crook, Bullock, Bentley, Parr, Creighton, Cartwright, Ridley, Day, May, Wallis, Sanderson, Morland, Herschell, Jebb, Sedgwick, Paley, and several others.
[480] Some forty members of Parliament voted in favour of the “Graces” on this occasion.
[481] See p. 338 n.
[482] Another clergyman also—the Rev. E. W. Bowling, afterwards rector of Houghton Conquest, and a light blue champion in the boat race.
Battle of the Pons Trium Trojanorum, Thursday Feb. 24. 1881.
Aemilia Girtonensis
By the Nine Muses swore
That the great house of Girton
Should suffer wrong no more.
By the Mutes Nine she swore it
And named a voting day
. . . . . . . . . .
But by the yellow Camus
Was tumult and affright
. . . . . . . . . .
‘O Varius, Father Varius,
To whom the Trojans pray,
The ladies are upon us!
We look to thee this day!’
. . . . . . . . . .
The Three stood calm and silent
And frowned upon their foes,
As a great shout of laughter
From the four hundred rose.