Girton College, Cambridge Girton was not officially a college yet, nor were its members part of the University. Girton and Newnham were classed as "recognised institutions for the higher education for women", not colleges of the university. On 27 April 1948, women were admitted to full membership of the University of Cambridge, and Girton College received the status of a college of the university. Social and cultural changes in the post-war period led to an increasing number of British universities to become co-educational. In Cambridge, Churchill College, King's College and Clare College were the first men's colleges to admit women in 1972. Girton
Academic dress of the University of Cambridge America to retain the "cappa clausa" as part of its academic dress. College praelectors, and all other presenters, wear the academical dress of their highest Cambridge degree when presenting graduands. The Proctors in Cambridge are formally responsible for the discipline of junior members of the university. In addition, they have various ceremonial and administrative duties, with which they are, in practice, mainly occupied. In both Oxford and Cambridge, the Proctors could formerly be seen patrolling the streets after dark with the university Constables, or "bulldogs", who wore top hats in Cambridge and bowler hats in Oxford. These traditions have now