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From strength to strength

The college doubled in size in ten years, becoming home to 270 undergraduates and nearly 100 graduates, and major building developments had been undertaken to accommodate the growing numbers.. At the time Somerville was not only growing in numbers, it was growing in reputation.  Somervillians were heads of all 5 women’s colleges, and Somerville had established a position at, or near the head of the Norrington Table.

Barbara Craig, a Somerville classicist, who had spent nearly twenty years abroad assisting her husband in his work for the British Council, was the Principal during the late 1960s and 1970s, a time of student unrest and social change. Despite these unsettled times, Somerville arrived at its centenary in a position to reflect positively on its many hard-won achievements.

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