13 FEBRUARY 1953, Page 5

Janus of course has two faces, for looking forward and

looking back. Last week he was so intent on looking forward that he got a little lax about looking back, and consequently failed to realise that the project for a new women's college at Cambridge has got substantially further than he suggested. The Senate has actually approved a report of its Council recommending the establishment of a new " autonomous foundation for women students," the number of whose students should not until further order exceed a hundred. This means that the new institution—which may in time become an Approved Foundation and later a full College of the University —is already definitely practical politics. Now, of course, it remains to find some money. An appeal for that is probable.

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