Newnham College, Cambridge passionately that equality could only be expressed by women doing the same courses as the men, on the same time-table. This meant that Girton attracted a much smaller population in its early years. But the Newnham Council held its ground, reinforced by the commitment of many of its members to educational reform generally and a wish to change some of the courses Cambridge was offering to its men. In 1948 Newnham, like Girton, attained the full status of a college of the university. The university as an institution at first took no notice of these women and arrangements to sit
Long College for Women a subsequent donation of $750,000 from his estate – it was decided to open a coordinate institution. Long College was formally established on June 2, 1947. It was originally intended to last only ten years, but Hanover renewed the agreement in 1957 and extended the life of Long College. The addition of Long College to Hanover College added more than $1 million to the joint college's annual budget. New buildings, including dining halls and dormitories, were constructed to assist the incoming women in particular. As with other coordinate women's institutions of the time, such as Pembroke College of Brown University