WOMEN AT OXFORD
LAST BARRIER DOWN
One of the last barriers remaining against women students at Oxford was recently swept away when a statute was passed providing that all degrees in the university shall be open to men and women equally, states a London writer.
This means that women will now be able to take the two degrees of bachelor and doctor of divinity which have hitherto been.closed to them.
Dr. K. E. Kirk, regius professor of pastoral theology, in moving the passing of the statute, said that, fifteen years ago, when women were first admitted to the full membership of the University, the possibility of their taking degrees in divinity had been "a storm centre of controversy," while the present proposal had the complete support of the faculty of divinity. While this happened at Oxford, the Bishop of the Free City of .Hamburg (rescinded the law of' November 8; 1927, which admitted women to the, ministry, because "it was based on a' misconception of women's role in professional life," and had to be revoked "in order to re-establish the old tradi» tions of the Church."
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 26
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