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WE trust the Grace which is to-day to be submitted to the Cambridge Senate, advocating the admission of women to receive University degrees, will meet with the approval of that body. In fact, as the Times put it yesterday, the point was ruled ten years ago. “Cambridge, in conniving at its public examiners examining Girton and Newnham students precisely as if they were Trinity or Johnian scholars, gave in spirit what is now demanded. It seems ungenerous, and not very rational, for a university to let its authorities proclaim a man in the Senate House eighth wrangler, and inform Girton College that the real eighth wrangler was a woman. Even a country clerical passman would not venture to withdraw the existing licence; all that remains is for the Senate to ratify with a good grace the principle upon which its officials have long and openly been acting.”
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BRERETON, J. Degrees to Women . Nature 23, 394 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023394a0
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