woolf also discusses rebecca west, questioning desmond maccarthy's (referred to as "z") uncompromising dismissal of west as an "'arrant feminist'". among the men attacked for their views on women, f. e. smith, 1st earl of birkenhead (referred to as "lord birkenhead") is mentioned, although woolf further rebukes his ideas in stating she will not "trouble to copy out lord birkenhead's opinion upon the writing of women". birkenhead was an opponent of suffrage. the essay quotes oscar browning, through the words of his (possibly inaccurate) biographer h. e. wortham, "that the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that, irrespective of the marks he might give, the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man". in addition to these mentions, woolf subtly refers to several of the most prominent intellectuals of the time; her hybrid name for the university of oxford and the university of cambridge—oxbridge—has become a well-known term, although she was not the first to use it.