so THE EXETER ROAD 



There are now, sad to say, after the hipse of nearly 

 eighty years, a great many more of the ' crew ' here, 

 and they journey -to and from Capel Court with 

 even less danger to their necks, bad luck to them ! 



Egham Hill surmounted, the Holloway College for 

 Women is a prominent object on the left-hand side of 

 the road, the fad of Thomas Holloway, whose thump- 

 ing big fortune was derived from the advertising 

 enterprise which lasted wellnigh two generations, 

 and during the most of that period rendered the 

 advertisement columns of London and provincial 

 papers hideous with Ijeastly illustrations of suppura- 

 ting limbs, and the horrid big type inquiry, ' Have 

 you a Bad Leg ? ' Pills and ointments, what sovereign 

 specifics you are — towards the accumulation of wealth ! 

 All-powerful unguents, how beneficent — towards the 

 higher education of woman I 



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No less a sum than £600,000 was expended on 

 the building and equipment of this enormous range 

 of buildings, opened in 1887, and provided royally 

 with everything a college requires except students, 

 wdiose numl)er yet falls far short of the three hundred 

 and fifty the place is calculated to house and teach. 

 A fine collection of the works of modern English 

 painters is to be seen here, where study is made 

 easy for the ' girl graduates ' Ijy the provision of 

 luxuriously appointed class-rooms and shady nooks 

 where ' every pretty domina can study the pheno- 

 mena ' of integral calculus and other domestic sciences. 

 It seems a waste of o-ood money that, althouo-h a sum 

 equal to £500 a year for each student is expended 

 on the hioher education of women here, no prophetess 



