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which universities started to make arrangements for women to study and graduate on the same terms as men. The first female undergraduates at
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joined the group and she was said to "the intellect" in the group and she was good at administration. In 1874 a university certificate was offered in arts subjects and the association's classes were listed in the university calendar from 1877. The first ELEA member to sit exams for the university
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were not realised, but for many years the Hall was a community of women within the wider university. Masson Hall was relocated in the 1960s when the
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