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WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 751 terms, and though the clause specifically conferring on them eligi- bility to the House of Lords was cut out, contained, nevertheless, important provisions in the direction of equality. It allowed them to sit on juries, be Justices of the Peace, sworn in as police officers, enter the legal profession and made it possible for the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to admit women to membership and degrees on equal terms with men. The only important advance in education after 1900 was the throwing open to women by the Governing Body of Trinity College, Dublin, of degrees, membership and all privileges per- taining thereto in 1903. All the universities in the United King- dom, with the exception of Oxford and Cambridge, have been for many years open to women and in November, 1919, a Royal Com- mission was appointed to enquire into their financial resources and into the administration and application of these resources. On the commission, Miss Penrose of Somerville College, Oxford, and Miss B. A. Clough of Newnham College, Cambridge, the women's colleges, were appointed as members. An Act of Parliament later enabled both universities to grant membership, degrees and all privileges to women. Oxford availed itself of these powers with- out delay. Cambridge in December, 1920, refused to do so by a large vote, but it will ultimately have to open its doors.