96 The Higher Education of Women. 



my own part T shall refrain from attempting to make any crude 

 remarks on the subject, and will simply convey to Professor 

 Knight our very heartfelt thanks for the lecture given us. 



Professor Knight. — I sincerely thank you for the vote. It 

 has been a great pleasure to me to be here. It is a favourite 

 motto of my life that " it is more blessed to give than to receive." 

 I think to-night, in the speeches which have followed, that I 

 have received as much as I have given. I have learned a great 

 many new things of which I was only partly informed. With 

 reference to the remarks that fell from Mr. Martin, I have the 

 utmost sympathy with women having those higher privileges, 

 not merely voting, but teaching in the University. I would hail 

 the day when University professorships would be open to women 

 I do not see anything to prevent that. I should like to see the 

 experts of the female sex, who are more compent to teach some 

 subjects than we are, installed as University lecturers or 

 professors of those subjects. I have only glanced at the fringe 

 of this great question to-night, and I thank you most cordially 

 for the interest you have taken in my remarks. If it is possible 

 for me in the future to again visit this delightful city, it will 

 certainly give me very great pleasure. 



