Girton College is very pleasantly situated near the university town of Cambridge, England. The buildings occupy two sides of a quadrangle, tastefully laid out into grass-plots, flowerbeds and trim walks. These buildings contain fifty-five suites of rooms for students; suites for the mistress and three resident lecturers; eight lecture rooms, a dining hall, a small chapel, and an isolated hospital suite. There is also in another building, which stands by itself, a laboratory and a gymnasium. The college was founded about fifteen years ago, in a private house, with six students in the catalogue. In 1873, it was moved to its present location at Girton.
The "Honors Examinations" of Cambridge University, are open to students of Girton, and of the one hundred and thirty-seven ladies registered at the college, from its beginning to June, 1882, sixty-two had taken "Honors," and twenty had passed examinations qualifying for the ordinary B. A. de-
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