Ladies’ Edinburgh Magazine > Volume 5

28o The Ladies' Edhihirgh Magasuie.
similar advantages by teaching some subject that they
thoroughly understand, and learning, in return, others they
wish to acquire. For these also there are scholarships and
exhibitions.
The test of study is to be the Oxford Women's Exami¬
nations.
There will be lectures on some subjects, tutorial classes
on others; and when these cannot be formed, instruction by
correspondence, and an occasional visit from the correspond¬
ing instructor, will be arranged.
I both hope and believe that the difficulties occasioned by
distance from a university town will be overcome. The
failure at Hitchin was from totally different circumstances.
There was no home staff of competent teachers; for ladies
who could teach classics, mathematics, and philosophy
were then almost unknown. Here we are not far from
Birmingham, and not so distant from Oxford but that an
occasional lecturer might sometimes run down. Then we
are free from all the distractions that are inseparable from a
xiniversity town. "We have the freedom of a wide park, the
house is built on good soil, we have an abundant supply of
fine water; and as proofs of its healthiness, during the
twenty-two years of Miss Selwyn's residence the school has
never broken up on account of infectious diseases,—indeed,
such are hardly known,—and during the half-year that has
passed since I came, we have not once required medical help
for either pupils or industrials. I feel sure that, when once
Sandwell is known, it will be a favoiirite residence for those
who wish for quiet study. I trust its students will neither
in scholarship nor future usefulness be behind their sister
collegians of Girton, Newnham, or of the newly rising halls
in Oxford.
It will give me much pleasure to furnish further informa¬
tion should I receive any inquiries, addressed, ' Sandwell,
Birmingham.' Thanking you for the warm interest you have
expressed in our institution,—I am, yours very truly,
J. A. WiNSCOM.
[We shall hope to hear further details from time to time of the
success and progress of the work of Sandwell. It seems to us tQ
combine so many of the elements necessary to women's success in the
prosecution of their studies, and to avoid so many of the incou-
■veniences and discomforts which seem inseparable from residence
in a large town while pursuing such studies, that it only needs to he
more widely known in order to have its advantages eagerly sought
after by young lady-students of all grades.]