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tinguished neighbors, the discoverers of the Codex Ludo- 

 vicus, the degrees she was honored with came not from 

 Cambridge, with which, through her fellowship in Newn- 

 ham, she was so closely connected. 



And while this gifted lady was deserving so well of sci- 

 ence and literature, the undergraduate students of Cam- 

 bridge, following the cue given by the twenty-four hundred 

 graduates who had just rejected the proposal to give hon- 

 orary degrees to women who could pass the required ex- 

 aminations, were giving an exhibition of rowdyism which 

 far surpassed that which, a few years before, had so dis- 

 graced the University of Edinburgh, when the same ques- 

 tion of degrees for women was under consideration. 



According to the report of an eye witness of the turbu- 

 lent scene at Cambridge, "The undergraduate students 

 appeared to be, as a body, viciously opposed to the pro- 

 posal to give degrees to women, and became fairly riotous. 

 They hooted those who supported the reform and fired 

 crackers even in the Senate House and made the night 

 lurid with bonfires and powder. They put up insulting 

 effigies of girl students, and such mottoes as 'Get you to 

 Girton, Beatrice. Get you to Newnham. Here is no place 

 for maids ! ' ' 



Verily, when such scenes are possible in one of the 

 world's great intellectual centers a place where, above all 

 others, women should receive due recognition for their 

 contributions toward the progress of knowledge one is 

 constrained to declare that what we call civilization is still 

 far from the ideal. And, when one witnesses the total in- 

 difference of institutions like Cambridge and the French 

 Academy to the splendid achievements of women like Mrs. 

 Lewis, Mrs. Gibson and Mme. Curie, one cannot but ex- 

 claim in words Apocolyptic: "How long, Lord, holy 

 and true," is this iniquitous discrimination against one- 

 half of our race to endure ? Lord, how long ? 



