£1,000,000 COLLEGE
GIFT BY LORD NUFFIELD POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Lord Nuffield’s £ 1,000,000 College of Politics and Economics will be Oxford University’s first co-educa-tional college, but women Fellows and students will not be allowed to live on the premises. Accommodation is to be provided for only 40 men Fellows and students. Women Fellows apd students will have to find “digs.” Mr Harold Butler, the warden of Nuffield College, explained this week: “There will be three kinds of Fellow's—those already studying politics and economics at other colleges, official Fellows, who will be wholetime workers at Nuffield College, and visiting Fellows, men and women chosen from the outside world as representatives of business and finance and so on.
"They will be the first Fellows of
the university ever chosen on nonacademical grounds. They may be self-made men, they may be trade union people, women M.P.’s or business women as well as business men. About half the total of 40 Fellows of the college ; will be the visiting kind.
“There, will be accommodation for 40 men at the college. Women students will have to live in 'digs’ or elsewhere.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 48, Issue 2923, 3 July 1939, Page 3
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