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HIGHER EDUCATION FOR WOMAN. 



An address on higher education, inaugurating a series of lectures 

 ■designed for ladies, was delivered by Professor Wilson, of University 

 College, in the Music Hall, Toronto, on Friday, the 22nd October; 

 and as it marks the commencement of a movement which, if carried out 

 in the spirit in which it has been begun, is fraught with results of the 

 highest importance, not only to this Province but to the whole Canadian 

 Dominion, we have thought it well to give it permanent record in this 

 journal. The gentlemen who have undertaken to conduct this first 

 experimental course, preparatory to the organization of a permanent 

 scheme on a more extended scale, should the results hold out any ade- 

 quate encouragement for such a procedure, are Professors J. B. 

 Cherriman, M.A., and D. Wilson, LL.D., of University College, and 

 Professor Geo. P. Young, M.A., of Knox's College, Toronto. The 

 result, so far, we may add, has surpassed the expectations of the most 

 sanguine promoters of the movement. Upwards of one hundred and 

 fifty tickets have been taken by lady-students in the three branches 

 of Logic, Astronomy, and English Literature ; and the zeal and perse- 

 verance manifested by them thus far in those studies, give abundant 

 assurance of success. On the opening day the large lecture-room of 

 the Mechanics' Institute was crowded with an audience composed 

 exclusively of ladies, to whom Dr. Wilson delivered the following 

 address : — 



We meet to-day for the purpose of inaugurating a movement which 

 aims at securing for ladies facilities for training in the higher depart- 

 ments of mental culture, in some degree corresponding to those already 

 available for young men. The liberal scale on which this province 

 has provided for education in the higher departments of learning 

 has already won for it an honourble preeminepce among the states and 

 provinces of this western hemisphere. But the ample provision thus 

 secured for the training of young men, in letters, science, and 

 philosophy, only renders thereby the contrast more striking and 

 invidious, which leaves to the other sex nothing beyond the Com- 

 mon, and the Country Grammar School. The need of something more 

 cannot be doubted. To what extent the want is as yet felt among 

 ourselves, the present movement is designed in some degree to test. 

 The duty has accordingly been imposed on me of presenting the subject 

 to your notice, with the view of acertaining whether there really exists 



