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A SHORT HISTORY OF
NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED
GLASGOW: MACLEHOSE, JACKSON & CO.
Henry Sidgwick
A SHORT HISTORY
OF
NEWNHAM COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
BY
ALICE GARDNER, M.A. (Bristol)
FORMERLY LECTURER AND FELLOW OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
AUTHOR OF "THE LASCARIDS OF NICÆA," "THEODORE OF STUDIUM," ETC.
WITH TEN ILLUSTRATIONS
CAMBRIDGE
BOWES & BOWES
1921
TO THE HONOURED MEMORY
OF A. J. C. AND H. S.
COPYRIGHT
PREFACE
This little book is primarily intended for presentand past students of Newnham College and for thenumerous friends who have been helpers or sympatheticspectators of its early progress. At the sametime I venture to hope that it may prove interestingand suggestive to a wider circle of persons practicallyor theoretically concerned in movements for thehigher education of women.
Of the deficiencies of this short history, no onecould be more fully aware than the writer herself.But for the expressed wish of the Council of NewnhamCollege, it would never have been attempted, norcould it have been written at all without the kindco-operation of friends, who, like myself, had knownthe College from the inside. I would especiallythank the present Principal, Miss B. A. Clough, andthe Registrar, Miss E. M. Sharpley, for supplying mewith information and with kindly criticisms throughoutmy task. It has been gratifying to realize thatthe Publisher is son of an early friend of the College.
One of the chief difficulties in writing the historyof a comparatively young institution, and one raised[vi]by the labours, forethought, and sacrifices of many"pious founders and benefactors" is that the rangeof view possible to any former student and teachermust necessarily be limited. I have felt deep regretin realizing how many honoured helpers have—forlack of space—not even been mentioned. Similarly,among the former students whose labours, scientific,literary, and practical, have brought credit to theCollege, I have necessarily shown most appreciationof those with whose work and influence I have beenpersonally best acquainted. Every past student willhave to supplement the story with recollections fromher own experience.
I trust that, at least, I shall have brought hometo many the conviction that Newnham College isun