"Steamboat ladies" was an informal nickname given to female students (estimated at 720 graduates) at the women's colleges of the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, who were awarded academic degrees at Trinity College Dublin by incorporation, between 1904 and 1907, at a time when their own universities (Oxford and Cambridge) refused to confer degrees upon women. The name comes from the means of transport commonly used by these women to travel to Dublin for this purpose.
"Steamboat ladies" was an informal nickname given to female students (estimated at 720 graduates) at the women's colleges of the universities of both Oxford and Cambridge, who were awarded academic degrees at Trinity College Dublin by incorporation, between 1904 and 1907, at a time when their own universities (Oxford and Cambridge) refused to confer degrees upon women. The name comes from the means of transport commonly used by these women to travel to Dublin for this purpose.
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