"THE INNS OF COURT"
UNIVERSITY WOMEN
Members of the Wellington Association of the Now Zealand Federation \ of University Women were the guests o£l Sir Frederick and Lady Chapman at Eecleston Hill recently. Ail enjoyable evening was spent, and a most interesting talk on "The Inns of Court" was given by Sir; Frederick Chapman, who gave the-history ;o£ these districts or London from the time when in 1292, a Commission was set up by Edward I to inquire into the needs of students, and it was decided that they should be brought from the provinces to the courts at Westminster. Students were located in the Inns of Court and Chancery, the earliest settled places for students of the law. They were called "Inns," primarily, because they were places where people went to eat and sleep, said Sir Frederick, tracing their development from this beginning to their present-day Bigniflcanco. Among those present were Miss Mary McLean, 0.8.8., Dr. Bryson (president of the New Zealand Federation), Miss Maude Pinnecn, Misses Lorimev, Kersley, Collins, : and tho committee of the Wellington association, comprising Miss Batham (president), Drs. Paterson and Bakewell, Mesdames Wallace and Northe, Misses Sutherland, Heine, Cornish, L. Mitchell, North, I. Wilson, Simkin, and B. Jackson (secretary). '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 11
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