Oxford University

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race was completely overshadowed by the sensational antics of an American advertising company.

Cornelia Sorabji , the first woman law student at a British university, enrolled at Somerville College , Oxford .

Mary Lucy Pendered dedicated her novel of two friends and their eventual disappointment with their husbands, Dust and Laurels: A Study in Nineteenth Century Womanhood, To that Hybrid Complication, the Woman of To-day.

Nearly four years after the appearance of the first fascicle (A-ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary, a great dinner was held at Queen's College, Oxford , for its volunteer readers, including women.

Cecil Rhodes died, leaving a trust producing nearly £52,000 per annum to fund fifty-two (at first) graduate scholarships each year to Oxford . They were not, under the terms of his will, open to women...

Sir Walter Raleigh , author of the literary historyThe English Novel, 1894, moved from Glasgow to become the first Professor of English Literature at Oxford .

Lilian Baylis began her tenure as manager of the Old Vic Theatre in London, which she converted from a music hall into a respected Shakespearian theatre.

Principals of the women's colleges of Oxford University agreed to allow the formation of mixed societies.

Oxford University opened its medical examinations to women.

Oxford University opened its postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law examination to women; this was one of the changes introduced because the First World War shifted opinion towards assimilation of women in educational institutions.

Oxford University admitted women as full members.

At the beginning of Oxford University 's academic year, the women's statute came into effect: women were finally eligible to become Senior Members of the University.

A week after the university statutes had finally made women eligible for degrees, women graduates of Oxford gathered for the belated award of degrees which they had earned, most of them, years before.

Oxford University awarded its first honorary degree to a woman, Queen Mary .

Annie Jump Cannon , distinguished US astronomer, became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from Oxford University .