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Jewish Woman Named Heap of College at Cambridge University

January 15, 1954
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Ruth Cohen, 47, an economist, was today named principal of Newham College at Cambridge University. Miss Cohen, who is the sister of Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda, is the first Jewish woman to head a college at either Cambridge or Oxford University.

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