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130 formly courteous and civil, showing in their good manners the result of the more enlightened views with regard to women in which they had been brought up.

Miss Sorabji worked at the college five hours every day, but she had also to study several hours at home in order to get through her work, which she found rather hard. She does not appear to have studied Latin at all before she began her college course, so she had, as she says, "to put five years of Latin into one." Since that time French has been introduced into the University course, as an alternative for Latin in the case of women students; but it was not so then, and the regular curriculum was a fairly difficult one for a student whose previous education, good as it had been, had not been conducted on exactly the same lines. However, on the whole, Miss Sorabji enjoyed her college days. The lectures she always found delightful, and even the examinations were to her a source of real pleasure. Nor were her exertions unsuccessful; besides the real pleasure which she found in study, she obtained substantial rewards of another kind. She was a college scholar each year of her course; she won the Havelock prize, and the Hughling's Scholarship of the Bombay University, which is awarded to the highest candidate in the First Arts Examination. At each examination she took honours, and in the final examination for the