;H THE UNIVERSITY AND WOMEN'S WORK 



grow under our own special conditions and in conformity with 

 the national genius. We shall doubtless make mistakes and 

 succeed only after patiently groping our way. My chief hope 

 lieSj of course, in a strong conviction of the need of our work, 

 and of its beneficent results on the national life, but in addition 

 to this I may be permitted to say how much my confidence is 

 strengthened by a knowledge of the auspices under which the 

 work is started. 



Our pecuniary resources and our equipment are not all we 

 could desire, but we must be grateful for enough to start 

 upon. I am sure that this is an enterprise which, if successful, 

 will bring the sympathy and support requisite for its main- 

 tenance and expansion, and it is in many ways a less anxious 

 business for those in charge of the work to begin in a modest 

 way than under conditions which create a restless demand for 

 proofs of success. 



I can only say once more I have the fullest confidence that 

 the work to which we are setting our hands is good work that 

 is greatly needed, and that it is work eminently worthy of the 

 brains of a university. If we succeed here, as I have not a 

 doubt we shall, other universities are sure to follow our 

 example, and so it is my fervent hope that we shall see before 

 long a widely disseminated higher education of women which 

 does not carry with it, what has always been to me the 

 melancholy suggestion of women drifting away from the 

 grandest of all their vocations the making and minding of 

 a home. 



Note. The Household and Social Science Department of King's College 

 for Women is now (1921) housed on a site of two and a half acres on 

 Campden Hill in beautiful buildings including Queen Mary's Hostel. 

 About 200 students are in attendance, and the London University has 

 recognized the special studies in its B.Sc. degree. 



