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on its affiliation with Queen's University.

In 1880 the faculty of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons, had thrown
open its doors to women students, but co-education
had during the winter of 1882-83 become a
source of irritation among the students, and the
Faculty was obliged to delcine to receive any more
female students.

An appeal was then made to
the citizens of Kingston with the result that
the Kingston Women's Medical College was
founded, with liberal cash endowment for five
years, a separate Board of Trustees and a
Faculty were appointed and the students who
had till then been attending the Royal continued
their course in the Women's College.

Three students received their degree of M.D. at
the April Convocation, the first women to
receive this honor in the history of the University.
These were Miss Elizabeth Beatty, Lansdown.
Mrs. Alice McGillivray, Kingston..and
Miss Elizabeth Smith, Winona.

A commitee had been
appointed to confer with the Women's Medical
College with a view to its affiliation with
Queen's. This committee reported

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1883-84

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