7o THE UNIVERSITY AND WOMEN’S WORK 
for the learned professions but take alarm whenever any other 
kind of special education is mentioned. People who look with 
complacency on the association of a hospital with a university 
for the benefit of students of medicine are sometimes scandal- 
ized by the suggestion of a university wai or anything in the 
nature of a workshop. 
I have made these remarks for two reasons. In the first 
place, I wanted to explain and to discount a kind of criticism 
to which we are sure to be subjected because we are doing 
something new in the way of special education. Inthe second 
place, I wanted to emphasize the fact that at the present day 
we have for men, as distinguished from women, university 
training for a great variety of professions and ingusttm 
callings. 
Let us now ask how matters stand in the case of women. 
What are the university privileges of women? They are 
practically these, that so long as women are willing to restrict 
themselves to the same callings as men, they have pretty 
nearly equal educational opportunities ; but so far as women’s 
special callings are concerned I am aware of no special 
university courses anywhere in this country. 
The question then arises, are there in fact any such special 
callings to which university education may be particularly 
directed? My own reply to this question is a most emphatic 
yes. The most usual calling of women, the making and 
administering of a home, is surely one to which a university 
may fitly contribute special knowledge. 
We must not assume that this view will be universally 
admitted. On the contrary, it has been maintained with great 
vigour and persuasiveness that there is no place at all for any 
such special studies as I have implied. With respect to all 
matters of the home we are told that what is wanted is that 
women should bring their intelligence and common sense to 
bear upon it, that it is nothing very mysterious, nothing that 
