WOMEN AT OXFORD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 28 December 1926, Page 3

WOMEN AT OXFORD

"GETTING ALONG ALL RIGHT NOW”

AN, AUSTRALIAN STUDENT’S

REMARKS

(Py Eleotr o Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian A N.Z. Cable Association.

AUCKLAND, 24th Dec

“They didn’t like us at (he beginning, but we get on all right now,” said Miss H. Simpson, a young Australian authoress who arrived by the Rotorua this morning on the way, back to her home at Sydney. “It was only six years since Oxford University opened its doors to women students.” Proceeding, she said that men regarded them with dismay in the early stages. Miss Simpson lias concluded four years of study at Oxford, where she obtained her B.A. degree. Site was the sole representative of Australia among 600 Oxford women. Speaking of ’varsity life, she said that women students did not or should nob meet male students except at lectures... 'They had their own houses, played their own games, and got on just as well as women generally do among themselves. Ladies’ boat crews competed against one another, and possibly at a future dale there would be an interuniversity eight-bar race, as Cambridge likewise eaters for women, although the latter institution had not yet gone to the extent of conferring degrees on women. Miss Simpson said it was recognised in England that women were in all respects, bar physically, the equals of men, and that they could fill many positions in life which in previous years were unopened to them.