REPORT OF THE TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF SENIOR MEM ERS ffiHE meeting was held in the Mordan Hall on Saturday, 4 July 1953. One hundred and six Senior Members were present. The Chairman in her statement spoke of the great loss to English scholarship sustained by the death of Dorothy Everett. She came to Oxford as Tutor in English at St. Hugh's in 1921, was for twenty-five years a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, and from 1945 University Reader in English Language. Another distinguished Senior Member who had died recently was Mrs. Georgina Buckler. Her connexion with the College began when she was over 5o, and registered as an Advanced Student in Byzantine history. Her book on Anna Comnena is a standard work, and she had been a generous friend to the College. Mrs. Aspin had made a munificent gift of ÂŁ4,000 as a memorial of her daughter to be used as an endowment for the Library. Recent honours bestowed on Senior Members included an Hon. LL.D. (Edinburgh) to the Mistress of Girton (Mary Cartwright) and O.B.E.s to Enid Mcleod and Anstare Moore in the Birthday and Coronation Honours List. University Awards had been made to Nancy Sandars (Thomas Whitcombe Greene Scholarship) and Barbara Levick (Thomas Whitcombe Greene Prize), both for work in Classical Archaeology. Anne Elliott had been elected Mary Somerville Research Fellow and Rachel Toulmin Woolley Archaeological Fellow at Somerville College. The latter would hold her Fellowship in conjunction with the Elizabeth Wordsworth Studentship, and thus be able to carry out a plan of extensive travel for her work on Early Christian Mosaics. There had been two recent pieces of university legislation of particular interest to women. One is the amalgamation of the Appointments Committees for Men and Women into a single joint committee. Miss Fone, the present secretary of the Women's Committee, will become one of the secretaries of the new committee, and will deal with posts open to women only. The other is the increase of the quota for women undergraduates so as to allow up to zoo to each of the four residential colleges, and 23o to St. Anne's. In addition all students working for research degrees, and not as hitherto Advanced Students only, will be extra numerum. These important changes were passed without opposition. The Chairman concluded her statement by drawing attention to the College flag, now floating over the Mary Grey Allen Wing, the gift of Dr. Evans and Miss Francis for coronation year. Dr. Ady was re-elected Secretary of the Association for 1953-5. A discussion took place on the proposed meeting of Senior Members in London in 1954. The suggestion of a luncheon was not supported and a proposal by Miss Southwell that the meeting should take the form of a sherry party to be held towards the end of September received general approval. The arrangements as to place and date were left to the Chairman and Secretary. Tea in the garden filled with sunshine followed the meeting.
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HE Sherry party for Senior Members proposed at the Annual Meeting has been arranged for Friday, r October 1954, 5.30-7.30 p.m. It will be 7