18 JUNE 1927, Page 3

While we acknowledge that there is point in all these

arguments, we are not convinced that the Principal of Hertford's proposal was desirable. Since the great increase of women at Oxford after the War the number has been steadily falling, and women's colleges voluntarily limit their numbers in their own interest. The right of the University to impose conditions is, of course, indis- putable, but as the danger of an inundation of women seems to be remote, the risk of causing resentment by a declaratory statute seems to have been accepted rather unnecessarily.