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training, whether in the old or the new universities, as also the whole 

 subject of the higher education of women, and its proper relationship 

 to traditional systems of instruction and study, framed and intended 

 for men. And my last word is a word of practical inquiry. How is 

 this section to be made of most value as an instrument of educational 

 progress ? I leave the answer to this question to those more competent 

 to give it, merely putting on record my own feeling that it may do a 

 valuable service and supply one of our special educational needs, if the 

 working committee of the section, enlarged by the addition of various 

 representative persons, makes it a duty to collect and publish year by 

 year in succession a series of papers, the best that can be written by 

 recognized authorities, on the chief branches of our English education, 

 dwelling on its immediate and pressing needs, and how best to supply 

 them. To do this the committee should set to work systematically, 

 commencing in October with monthly meetings, and formulating, with- 

 out delay, the scheme or series of papers to be prepared and presented 

 to the next meeting of the association. 



