The excellent new buildings of Bedford College for Women (University
of London), in Regent's Park, were opened by the
Queen on Friday week. The change from the old dingy site in Baker Street is indeed remarkable. The new buildings, which were designed by Mr. Basil Champneys, stand in eight acres of their own ground, and are surrounded by the trees of the park, BO that the college is as secluded as though it were in the country. In the residential wing there are rooms for eighty students. There are also three hundred and fifty day students. Lord Rosebery, Chancellor of the University of London, said that although the taxpayers had been extremely annoyed by encroachments on Regent's Park, no objection had been raised to the grant of a site for so great and beneficent a purpose as that of Bedford College. If it was not the oldest, it was the most famous of all the women's colleges in England.
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