Bull College was the name commonly used for a branch of the Training Within Civilian Agencies programme of the

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, which, during Michaelmas (winter) term 1945 and Lent (spring) term 1946, allowed American military personnel to study at the

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at the conclusion of the Second World War.''Cambridge Alumni Magazine''
Bull College Cambridge
Issue 59, Lent 2010, pp30-35 It was named for the Bull Hotel (requisitioned by the British Army from its owner, St Catharine's College and subsequently incorporated into St Catharine's) in which most GIs in the programme were initially billeted. Bull students made an impression on the university, not least through the first participation of a female

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in a Cambridge boat race, in the 1946

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. Bull was also involved in a fixture against Pembroke College, in which the first half was played under

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rules, and the second under

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rules. In March 1946 it was announced that the US Army's educational programmes would be cancelled. Plans were made to sustain the college on a longer-term basis using charitable funding, but these came to nothing. Bull students were able to witness the 1946 Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race before being recalled to active service.''

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'', 25 March 1946
Education: Yanks at Cambridge
/ref> Bull items, including its shield and copies of its student magazine ''The Cambridge Bull'', were transferred to the St Catharine's archives. The shield combined US and UK flags, the University of Cambridge arms, a bull's head and an American eagle bearing a shield.
''The Escutcheon'', Volume 15, Number 2 – Lent Term, 2010

David Braybrooke David Braybrooke (October 18, 1924–August 7, 2013) was a political philosophy, political philosopher and professor emeritus at both Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and the University of Texas at Austin. Early life and edu ...

, later a professor at the

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, was amongst the servicemen who participated in 1945.

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