The First In India

Miss Alice Mando Sorabji, the first ' girl bachelor of scieuce in all India, is the daughter oí tlio late Rev. Sorabji Kharsedji of Min Church Missionary I ciety aud oí Mrs. tíorabji, so well kuown in west-ra ludia for mauy educational charit es. Her earlier tion was übtained at the Victoria High school, Pooua, wbence she matriculated at the age of 15, appearing nineteenth in a list of candidatos who were drawn f rom the whole Borubay Presideucy. For her degree she read at Wilson college, Bombay, and bas, all through her oourse, displayed a peculiar aptitude for science. In the degree examination, held last November, she was the only woruan candidato and obtained more marks than ai)y of the others, coming first in the order of merit. Miss Sorabji hopes now to study medicine with a view to belping Indian ladies wbo are denied visits from a man doctor. Her great ambition ia a London M. D. Miss Alice Sorabji is a sister of the distinguished Miss Cornelia Sorabji, the first girl gradúate of western India, who was at Oxford, England, uot long aco. Philadelphia Press.