A full representative meeting of the Oxford Association for the Education of Women has voted, four to one, to memorialize Oxford University in behalf of conferring degrees upon women. The Association has hitherto been divided on the question of policy, and the vote shows a somewhat remarkable development of opinion. An act of Parliament is not necessary for Oxford and Cambridge in respect to this matter, but the board of Trinity College at Dublin, desiring to find some excuse for their unwillingness to admit women to lectures and degree examinations, have found out that the college's constitution will not allow them to, and declare that they would oppose an act of Parliament giving them the power unless said act should apply also to the two ancient English universities. This is a weak position, since Oxford and Cambridge settled that matter long ago by going ahead and opening lectures and examinations to women and now are likely to take the further step of giving degrees as they do to men.
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