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MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1849. 



Ladies' 

 College in 

 Bedford 

 Square. 



not until she found herself among a number of sound- 

 thinking liberal men that she gained help and advice to 

 carry her wishes into effect. Some of the Professors of 

 King's College among them the Eev. F. D. Maurice and 

 the Rev. W. Nicolay gave her the best advice and 

 encouragement, and when the plan was matured, their 

 experience drawn from the Queen's College in all techni- 

 calities respecting the arrangement of classes. Mrs. 

 Reid took the house in Bedford Square, paid the rent 

 and much of the expense during the first years, and 

 otherwise endowed the Institution. She was among our 

 friends, and we were able to interest many friends of 

 education in the undertaking. Prof. Scott kindly promised 

 his aid as Professor of English, Mr. Francis Newman took 

 the Professorship of Latin, and my husband gave lectures 

 or lessons on arithmetic and algebra for one year, to give 

 as good a start as possible to the new college, which 

 opened at the end of 1848. Of my own work in the 

 formation of the Ladies'" College I will only say that it was 

 the means of ensuring his interest, and thus obtaining 

 for the place an advantage which it could not otherwise 

 have had. 



For some years there had been a growing desire that 

 the education of girls should be brought out of the state 

 of absolute inanity in which it existed in ladies' schools. 

 A specimen of the instruction has been given at p. 123, 

 and from the Astronomy we may have an idea of the 

 other branches of science, and form a guess at the History 

 and Language. It was seen that something a little more 

 efficient was wanted some system which, if not ap- 

 proaching in extent, should yet be equal in soundness to 

 the teaching given to boys and young men. To meet this 

 want a few enlightened clergymen and others had some 

 time before established the Queen's College in Harley 

 Street. The orthodox King's College had grown up 

 shortly after the establishment of the heterodox Uni- 

 versity College as some persons thought, in rivalry and 



