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Letter from Cambridge for FHS School Magazine, 1938

School Archivist, Clive Bartram discovered this letter, from Francis Holland Old Girl, Diana Scott, written in 1938

We thought you'd be interested to read the thoughts of Old Girls', Diana Scott and Betty Aglen, from Girton and Newnham colleges respectively, who in 1938 wrote the below letter for the School Magazine. Humourously written, the girls' declared: "Life at University would be more of an Earthly Paradise if you followed the doctrine of work yesterday work tomorrow but never work today"!

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