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university library along these lines. Her approach to teaching was based on effectiveness rather than traditional academic values. She taught her students in the
English language rather than in Danish like her predecessors. Hort introduced an Australian Studies programme, the first of its kind anywhere in the world even in Australia.
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who was a resident at the college remembers her dreary dress and thick grey stockings, almost a caricature of her
Cambridge years. But Hort tutored competently in philosophy, demanded high academic standards and encouraged her students to develop a greater sense of freedom and self-government than
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in 1922, she studied
English at the University of Copenhagen where she received the university's gold medal in 1925 and earned a master's degree in 1927. After teaching English literature for a short period at the university, in 1929 she moved to Cambridge where she studied at Newnham College,
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University Women's College at the University of Melbourne. At a welcoming reception she stated: "I come of a race that has spread all over the world and has made its home in diverse countries. I hope that I have the home-building
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on 19 August 1967. In 1990, a library at
Melbourne University's University College was named after her. In the early 1990s, a "Greta Hort Scholarship" was established for Ph.D. student exchanges between the University of Melbourne and Aarhus University. It is now supported by the Dannebrog
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was usual at the time. During her tenure, the number of students at the Women's
College rose from 25 to 100 although she experienced difficulty in receiving the funding necessary for expansion, given the stigma of women's education in Australia.
95:(1938). While in England, she acquired British citizenship and changed her name to Greta Hort to facilitate its pronunciation in English. Hort won an Aurelia Henry Reinhardt International Fellowship and planned to go to
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from 1958 until her death in 1967. She pioneered a programme of studies including
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qualities of my forefathers and that I have learnt from them that one is never lost in a friendly country."
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