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The life of Burstall also illustrates the linkages amongst these powerful Headmistresses.40 Burstall came from a poor family, but was awarded a scholarship to NLCS. From there, she proceeded to Girton College, Cambridge, then after a period as a teacher with Miss Buss at NLCS, she was offered the Headship at MHSG. Thus, MHSG, too, became modelled upon NLCS lines. 

M. Beatrice Thomas (P) [6] Lecturer, Girton College, Cambridge... 

Tullio Levi-Civita, Professor of Rational Mechanics in the University of Rome, Fellow of R. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Edited by Dr. Enrico Persico. Authorized translation by Miss M. Long, late Scholar of Girton College, Cambridge. 21s. net. 

M.L. (March 1888). Life at Girton. Magazine of the Manchester High School 217-220. For a full account of daily life at Newnham at that period, see Field, E. E. (1889). Newnham College, Cambridge. The College, Dundee 1(5) 133-138. 

Travels to France (26 March-16 April). Awarded Prix Femina for To the Lighthouse (April). Travels to Burgundy with Vita Sackville-West (24 September-i October). Publishes Orlando (ii October). Lectmes on Women and Fiction at Girton and Newnham colleges, Cambridge (October). 

After the great physicist Clerk Maxwell died in 1879, Lord Rayleigh became his successor at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. During his professorship the classes increased in size, and women from Girton and Newnham colleges were for the first time admitted on the same terms as the men. Since he was allowed insufficient funds for the purchase of new apparatus, he contributed ,500 of his own money and solicited his friends for similar contributions until he had collected 1500 (3). 

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