Several women graduates who had left Girton or Newnham College 50 years ago returned to Cambridge University on Saturday to receive the degrees of which they had before held only the titles. They were among the 70 women who, for the first time in the history of the university, assembled with the men to the University Senate House to receive degrees from the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. C. E. Raven (Master of Christ's College).
The decision that the university should admit women to matriculation and to degrees on the same terms as men was made in December 1947. The first woman to receive a degree was the Queen, who was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Law during her visit to the university last month.
Altogether 114 degrees were conferred on women on Saturday, many by proxy. The ceremony was the same for the women as for the men, except for slight changes in the wording.
