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  Girton College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Girton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.
The College was established on October 16, 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon, as the first residential college for women in England.
On April 27, 1948, women were admitted to full membership of the University of Cambridge, and Girton College received the status of a College of the University.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Girton College
Girton College was established on October 16, 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon, as the first residential College for women in England.
In 1872 the present site,located about two and a half miles northwest of the centre of Cambridge, next to the village of Girton was purchased; the College was then renamed Girton College, and opened at the new location in October of 1873.
In 1928, Newnham, along with Girton College was one of the venues for a series of lectures by Virginia Woolf that resulted in the famous book-length essay A Room of One's Own.
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 Bertha Swirles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was associated with Girton College, University of Cambridge, as student and Fellow, for over 70 years.
This was followed by similar appointments in Bristol and at Imperial College London, and then in 1933 she returned to Manchester as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics.
In Cambridge, Bertha Swirles continued to publish important papers on quantum theory, but her most widely known publication is the enormously influential text Methods of Mathematical Physics, written with Harold Jeffreys, whom she had married in 1940.
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 Girton College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1872 the present site was purchased,located about two and a half miles northwest of the center of Cambridge, next tothe village of Girton ; the College was thenrenamed Girton College, and opened at the new location in October of 1873.
On April 27, 1948, women were admitted tofull membership of the University of Cambridge, andGirton College received the status of a College of the University.
The college became mixed in 1977 with the arrival of the first male Fellows; maleundergraduates have been admitted since 1979.
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 Access Guide 2002: Girton College
The College would consider whether a carer could be accommodated on an individual basis and it would be at minimal cost.
Girton is currently revising its long term maintenance and accommodation plans and general adjustments will be included.
Girton's inclusive and liberal traditions mean that the 'unstuffy' atmosphere is a comfortable environment for any students with special needs.
www.cam.ac.uk /cambuniv/disability/accguide/colleges/girton.html   (702 words)

  
 Grace Chisholm Young
She passed the senior examination for entrance into Cambridge University at the age of 17, but it was not until Girton College at Cambridge offered her a scholarship four years later that she was allowed to go.
Girton, opened in 1869, was the first school in England dedicated to educating women at the university level.
The Fellows of Girton College had just recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but she died before it could be given to her.
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 Girton college cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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 About Girton College
One of the advantages of living at Girton is the wide range of on-site sports facilities, including football, rugby and cricket pitches, tennis, squash and basketball courts, a multi-gym and a croquet lawn.
Girton is also the only College to have an indoor heated swimming pool.
Girton was established in 1869 as the first residential College for women.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
The college was organized at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1869 and in 1873 transferred to Cambridge as Girton College.
Davies was mistress of the college (1873-75) and its honorary secretary until 1904.
From 1866 she was closely associated with the English woman-suffrage movement and was active in organizing the first woman-suffrage petition presented to Parliament by John Stuart Mill in 1866.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Girton College, Cambridge
Most of the colleges of the University of Cambridge have sister colleges in the University of Oxford (and vice versa).
Map of the Cambridgeshire area (1904) The city of Cambridge is an old English university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire.
Full name The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge Motto There is a toast, Floreat antiqua domus (May the old house flourish), from which the colleges nickname, Old House, is derived Named after The citys Guilds of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin...
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 Times obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
She had become Mistress of Girton soon after women were admitted to full membership of the university, and the demands on her from many university committees was very heavy.
The essence of it is in her Cambridge Tract of 1956, which was all she chose to publish of a much larger book she had almost finished when the war began in 1939.
After her retirement from Girton in 1968 she worked at universities in England, America and Poland, before returning to Cambridge, where she was one of the editors of The Collected Papers of G.
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 Girton College
Emily also insisted that the new college must be affiliated to the Church of England.
I can never be sufficiently grateful to Girton College and the University of Cambridge for the part they played in transforming an unpresentable tadpole into a moderately decent sort of frog.
The mile-and-a-quarter which separates it from the centre of Cambridge is a bit of a nuisance, and was more nuisance in the days before 1914, when there were no buses and we had to cycle to and fro.
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 Girton College Cambridge Was Founded For Who in directory.co.uk
Girton College was founded in 1869 and was the first women's college of the Univeristy of Cambridge.
Girton College Girton College, college of the University of Cambridge, England.
Girton was founded in 1869 as Cambridge's first residential...
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 Girton College (Cambridge) - Wikipedia
Obwohl seit 1979 auch Männer hier studieren dürfen, ist das Hauptanliegen des Colleges der gleichberechtigte Zugang zur Hochschulausbildung für Studenten aller sozialen Gruppen und Nationalitäten.
Girton College begann als eine Wohngemeinschaft bestehend aus fünf Studentinnen in Hitchin in Hertfordshire.
April 1948, als erstmals Frauen volle Mitgliedschaft an der Universität Cambridge erhielten, wurde Girton College offiziell eines der Colleges der Universität Cambridge.
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 Guide N, O
In recognition of her work in Cambridge she was elected to the Fellowship of three Cambridge colleges: Girton, Lucy Cavendish and Gonville and Caius, where she was the first woman to be admitted to the Fellowship.
In addition to his contributions to Cambridge biochemistry Needham was an important figure in the establishment of the history of science as an academic discipline at the university.
Papers and correspondence of Dorothy Needham are held in the Library, Girton College, Cambridge.
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 Girton College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Girton College was established on October 16 1869 as the first residential College for in England.
In 1872 the present site was purchased located two and a half miles northwest of center of Cambridge next to the village of Girton; College was then renamed Girton College and at the new location in October of 1873.
The college became mixed in 1977 with the arrival of the first Fellows; male undergraduates have been admitted since 1979.
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 Girton Village, Cambridgeshire, UK - home page
Girton, Cambridgeshire, UK Girton is a village of about 1600 households, and 4500 people, situated to the north-west of the city of Cambridge, England.
Girton has a long history as a village - people were living here pre Saxon times.
Girton College, part of the University of Cambridge, was built specifically for women students in the 19th century.
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 Girton College Cambridge | Cambridge Conferences Venues UK | Conference Venues in Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Girton College is set in 50 acres of trees and grassland on the northern edge of Cambridge, whilst Wolfson Court, built in 1969, is situated within walking distance of the City centre.
Girton College offers a wide range of facilities for both residential and non-residential conferences as well as special functions.
Christ's College is a fantastic venue for conferences and meetings, steeped in history in the city of Oxford.
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 Dominic Smith - Cambridge University
Cambridge University is almost certainly the nicest place to study.
Other Cambridge students are likely to be laughing by now because Girton is the college that is furthest from the centre of town - about 20 minutes by bike - compared with many other colleges which are in the centre of town.
The college's women were not accepted by the University until quite late in the twentieth century but the College became mixed in the 1970s.
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 NameTraq | Last Name: Girton
According to Shane Girton, associate director of textbooks and health sciences at the bookstore, the 4.5 pre tax cents per dollar of profit that is made on...
It is due to be built in the spring at Girton on the outskirts of Cambridge.
She studied at Westonbirt School in England, received her Bachelor's degree in Law from Girton College, Cambridge, UK and was called to the Bar from Lincoln's...
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 Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (University of Cambridge: the university of cambridge is the second-oldest university in the english languageenglish-speaking...
Although women had been allowed to undertake limited study at Cambridge, it was only in 1947 that they were admitted as full members of the student body; even then, the two existing women’s colleges were limited in their numbers.
The college is named for Lucy Cavendish (1841-1925), an aristocrat (aristocrat: A member of the aristocracy) who campaigned for the reform of women's education.
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 COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Cambridge Career College is the only Accredited Career College in Sutter County and the Yuba-Sutter Region.
The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in the United Kingdom.
Its reputation for outstanding academic achievement is known world-wide and reflects the intellectual achievement of its...
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 Girton College Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Girton Library holds Archival and Special Collections which are an important resource in the study of women's history.
Records were kept of the earliest meetings where Emily Davies and others first floated the idea of a College for women and have been kept consistently since the College's foundation in 1869.
Our holdings continue to grow and today comprise the College's internal, administrative records; the personal papers of former members and associated individuals, including nineteenth century writers and feminists; the administrative records of associated organisations; photographic records and sound archives.
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 Reporter 7/7/99: Girton College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The College normally awards two Fellowships each year, one in the Arts and one in the Sciences.
These are open to graduates of any university with no age limit, but are intended to support those at an early stage in their academic careers, and will normally be awarded to candidates who have recently completed their Ph.D. Degree or are close to completion.
Overseas candidates should also note that the College cannot be responsible for payment of air fares should they be short-listed for interview.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1998-9/weekly/5781/29.html   (488 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 18 April 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Girton College seeks to appoint a temporary College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Classics, from 1 October 2002, for a fixed term of two years.
The appointment will be in association with Clare College to provide cover for the present fellow, who has been awarded a Major Research Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust.
Application forms and further details may be obtained from the Mistress's Secretary, Girton College, Cambridge CB3 0JG (telephone: 01223 338951, fax: 01223 337021, e-mail: ff204@cam.ac.uk).
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 Girton College Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Amy Erickson, Kate Perry and I looked at the lives of a sample of over 700 women who attended Girton College, Cambridge, between the 1920s and 1990.
Speakers include Malcom Guite, chaplain and fellow of Girton College in Cambridge, England; James Como, professor of rhetoric at York College, City University...
The determination was evident at Vassar College, where she studied English literature.Then it was on to Girton College at Cambridge University.
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 Reporter 17/2/99: Girton College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The College invites applications for this Scholarship which is tenable for one year from 1 October 1999 and potentially renewable.
The holder must become a member of the College and either be a candidate for the Ph.D. Degree, or be enrolled on a course leading to the Ph.D. Degree.
Application forms may be obtained from the College Secretary, Girton College, Cambridge, CB3 0JG, and must be completed and returned by 1 April 1999.
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 Girton College, Cambridge » Subjects
The Geographers at Girton are a 'hard working' lot and tend to form close groups.
The postgraduates enrich the college atmosphere by bringing their geographic expertise and sharing it with other geographers.
Girton Geographers are encouraged to work abroad on their dissertation topics.
www.girton.cam.ac.uk /admissions/subjects/geography.html   (898 words)

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