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 degree, in 1887, she was one of four in the first class of the University list, and stood at the head of all the students from the Dekkan College.

While waiting for the results of the examination to be made known, Miss Sorabji resumed work in the Poona Schools, throwing herself into the work of teaching others with the same whole-hearted enthusiasm which she had displayed in learning for herself.

At the end of a month the lists were published, and great were the rejoicings at the distinctions she had won, not only in her own family circle, but among all who were at all interested in watching the development of education among Indian women.

Almost immediately afterwards she received the offer of a teaching Fellowship in the Gujerat College at Ahmedabad. This she refused, being anxious to devote her time and talents to the education of women rather than of men; but when, a short time after, she was again offered a Fellowship at the same college, and found that the authorities had created a new one expressly to meet the demands she had made, she felt that she could not again refuse. It seemed, indeed, to her that there must be work for her to do at Ahmedabad, and believing that "it would do Indian men good to be ruled for a time by a woman," and "also that if Indian women were ever to be raised, it must be by the respect gained for