A Tiresome Course of Study.

AN important but neglected question of interest to women’s education was brought to notice on the occasion of the prize-distribution to girls of the Crosthwaite Girl’s High School, Allahabad, by the Secretary of the School Committee. He said the majority of the girls were between 6 and 12 years of age and very few girls remained in the school after 12. But the course prescribed by the Education Department required a girl to study for 12 long years to pass Matriculation or School Final Examination. Assuming that a child began to attend school in her 8th year of age and was regular in studies through her teens, she could in her 18th year pass the Matriculation examination.