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 this, it was necessary for her to keep terms at a Government college; accordingly, she was entered as a student at the Dekkan College at Poona, and while continuing to live at home, she drove every day to the college for her work.

For a time, at any rate, her experiences there were anything but pleasant. She was the only girl student at the college, and her position as such was not an easy one, among three hundred men students, who looked on her as an intruder, and who had never been trained as English men and boys are, to look upon a woman with respect and to treat her with consideration and courtesy. On the contrary, these young Indian students had been accustomed from their boyhood to hear the women of their family spoken of with contempt, and to see them treated as inferior beings; and it is not to be wondered at that they made Miss Sorabji's life as unpleasant as they could. They stared at her rudely, they played practical jokes upon her, shut the doors of the class- rooms in her face, and tried to keep her out of lectures. All this, however, she bore with patient good-humour, determined not to be driven out, because she felt that she was a pioneer in the cause of her countrywomen's advancement, and that as such she must be ready to endure a great deal. All the students, moreover, did not behave so badly to her; her own countrymen, the Parsis, were uni-