MARRIED STUDENTS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—In your issue of May 28th " Janus " comments on the -decision of Vassar to " allow its students to marry and to continue as students " and says : " And where Vassar has led Smith and Wellesley and Brynmawr and the rest are said to be likely to follow. But not, I trust, Girton and Newnham, Somerville and Lady Margaret". ,
It may be of interest to " Janus " to know that at Newn- ham, if a student much wishes to marry during her University 'course, she is allowed to if the Principal and other members of the staff feel that it will be of benefit to her and her work. A student on marrying ceases to live in College. Such an occurrence is extremely rare, but last year one married student gained a " First." I think this also applies to Girton, but I do not know of the ruling at Oxford as to the marriage of students.—I am,
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