Girton College, Cambridge
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| University | Cambridge University |
| Location | Huntingdon Road (map) |
| Motto in English | Better is wisdom than weapons of war |
| Founders | Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon, Lady Stanley of Alderley |
| Established | 16 October 1869 |
| Named for | Girton village |
| Previous names | College for Women (until 1872) |
| Sister college | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Mistress | Susan J. Smith |
| Undergraduates | 551 (as of 2010) |
| Postgraduates | 123 (as of 2010) |
| Website | www |
| JCR | www |
| MCR | www-mcr |
| Boat club | www-gcbc |
Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies, Barbara Bodichon and Lady Stanley of Alderley as a college for women. Girton was granted full college status by the university in 1948, marking the official admittance of women to the university. In 1976, Girton was Cambridge university's first women's college to become coeducational.
The main college site, situated on the outskirts of the village of Girton, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of the university town, comprises 33 acres (13.4 ha) of land. Held in typical Victorian red brick design, most was built by architect Alfred Waterhouse between 1872 and 1887. It provides extensive sports facilities, an indoor swimming pool, an award-winning library and a chapel with two organs. There is an accommodation annexe, known as Wolfson Court, situated in Cambridge's western suburbs, close to the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. This annexe was opened in 1961 and provides housing for graduates, and for second year undergraduates and above.
In 2010, the college's net assets were valued at £104.5 million, including £49 million of endowment, and in 2009-10 it admitted 674 full-time undergraduates and postgraduates. The college's formal governance is assured by a Mistress, Susan J. Smith, who has held the position since 2009.
The college has a tradition of fostering student equality, kept alive with a balanced male-to-female ratio, a ballot system for room distribution and several equal-access admittance schemes. It also has a reputation of encouraging talent in music. Several art collections are held on the main site, including People's Portraits, the millennial exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, and an Egyptian collection containing the world's most reproduced portrait mummy.
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