A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge

								

motives of its first founders, in the steady devotion to its best
interests of successive governors, teachers and students, as also in
its relations--complicated, but near, we may hope, to a solution--with
the University under the protecting shadow of which it has grown to
prosperity. My hope for this little work is that, besides helping to
justify the existence of the College in the eyes of the world, it may
in some measure preserve in its members the knowledge of our best
traditions in the past and inspire a confident hope for the future.

                                               ALICE GARDNER.


BRISTOL, April, 1921.

                               CONTENTS

  CHAPTER                                                  PAGE


I. INTRODUCTORY. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN IDEA. 1871-1880         1


II. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN ADOLESCENCE. 1880-1881              33


III. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1881-1892                57


IV. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1892-1900.

         PRINCIPALSHIP OF MRS. SIDGWICK                      84



   V. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN PROGRESS. 1900-1914                109



      EPILOGUE. 1914 AND AFTER                              135

                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PROFESSOR HENRY SIDGWICK. (Photogravure Plate.)      Frontispiece

      From a photograph by Mrs. F. W. H. Myers.



                                                          FACING PAGE


MISS ANNE J. CLOUGH AND THE FIRST FIVE STUDENTS                   2


MISS MARION KENNEDY                                              16


MERTON HALL, 1872-1874                                           26


MISS ANNE J. CLOUGH. (Photogravure Plate.)                       54

      From a photograph by Mrs. F. W. H. Myers.


MRS. HENRY SIDGWICK                                              72

      From the portrait by J. J. Shannon, R.A.


NEWNHAM COLLEGE                                                  86

      The Entrance Gates.


NEWNHAM COLLEGE, 1920                                           100

      General View of the Building and Grounds.


MISS KATHARINE STEPHEN                                          112


MISS B. A. CLOUGH                                               138

For permission to reproduce the two illustrations of Professor Henry
Sidgwick and Miss A. J. Clough thanks are due to Mrs. F. W. H. Myers;
also to Messrs. Bassano for the use of their photographs of Miss B. A.
Clough, Miss Katharine Stephen and the general view of the College.

                  A SHORT HISTORY OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE

                               CHAPTER I



                 INTRODUCTORY. NEWNHAM COLLEGE IN IDEA

In tracing the history of educational institutions and of other
foundations existing for the public good, we find it necessary to
distinguish those that had and those that had not a definite beginning.
Some of our colleges and great schools have--so to speak--sprung,