Girton

Girton, a college for the higher education of women, founded at Hitchin in 1869, and removed to Girton, near Cambridge, in 1873. It is under the superintendence of a "Mistress," and five lady lecturers reside in the college. The other lecturers are for the most part members of the university, and the students enter for the public examinations at Cambridge. - "Degree certificates" are given to successful candidates.