‘I don’t think they did many examinations. I believe Miss Ellis
didn’t approve of them.’
‘Quite, quite; and not many of the girls would go on to the Universities,
I suppose?’
‘Some did, I think; oh, several did. You could go if you liked.’
Maud smiled.
‘No compulsory abstention,’ she said, ‘but not unduly encouraged,
I suppose. Of course here we have quite the opposite idea. We
train our girls to regard a University training as the natural
culmination of their education. Under present conditions they
cannot always afford it, but it is surprising how many can, when
once the girl and her family are made to feel it the natural
and proper thing. There ought to be more scholarships, of course,
for Oxford and Cambridge are too expensive for most girls of
the class who come to us, but the Provincial Universities are
now excellent. A number of our girls go to Birmingham and more
still to the University College here.’