Girton College, Cambridge.—The course for the ordinary degree certificate occupies about three years, half of each year being spent in college. For honours the time allowed is somewhat longer. The academical year is divided into three terms, the charge for board, lodging, and instruction is £35 per term, paid in advance. This sum covers the whole of the college charges. Candidates for admission are required to pass an entrance examination, unless they have previously passed one of the examinations approved by the college authorities, and to furnish a satisfactory certificate of character. For students intending to read for the ordinary degree certificate, October is the best time for entering. Candidates for honours may with advantage enter in April, thus gaining an additional term. Except in special cases students are not received under the age of eighteen.
Entrance examinations are held in London in March and June; a fee of £1 is charged.
There are several scholarships attached to the college, of which full particulars can be obtained, together with forms of entry, and copies of the programme and of former entrance examinations, on application to the Secretary, Miss Kensington, 22, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, London, W. The committee wish it to be understood that although residence for three years is necessary for obtaining a certificate, students can be received for shorter periods.
Arrangements are made for holding examinations of the students of the college, and certifying proficiency. A certificate called a degree certificate is conferred upon any student whose proficiency has been certified to the satisfaction of the college, according to the standard of any examinations qualifying for the B.A. degree of the University of Cambridge, if such student has fulfilled, so far as in the judgment of the college was practicable, all the conditions imposed for the time being by the university on candidates for degrees.
A certificate called a college certificate will be conferred upon any student who shall have passed, to the satisfaction of the college, examinations similar in subjects and standard to those qualifying for the B.A. degree of the University of Cambridge, the following deviations being permitted: The substitution of French and English, or German and English, for Latin or for Greek; the substitution of English, French, and German for both Latin and Greek; the omission, in case of objection, of the theological part of the examination.
Newnham Hall.—No student is admitted under the age of eighteen. Students are required to give references satisfactory to the principal, and no student is permitted to come into residence without the approval of the principal.
The principal may require any student to withdraw who in her opinion is not profiting by the course of study at Cambridge. The charges for board and lodging and tuition are 25 guineas a term, and 15s. a year is charged for the use of the gymnasium. Unless under special circumstances, students who intend to pass the Cambridge Higher Local Examination will be required to pass in English history, English literature, and arithmetic, before coming into residence. Those who have taken honours in the Cambridge Senior Local Examination will be exempt from this rule.
The academic year, from October to June, is divided into three terms, corresponding to the terms of the Cambridge University.
The public lectures of thirty of the university professors are now open to women, and the permission to attend the lectures of the professors of natural science include the privilege of gaining access to some of the natural science museums and laboratories.
Ladies can be received as out-students of the College; they must either be women living with their parents at Cambridge, or bonâ fide students over thirty years of age, or otherwise in exceptional circumstances. The tuition fee for out-students is 6 guineas a term.