Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Cherwell (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr w ɛ l / CHAR-wel) is a weekly student newspaper published entirely by students of Oxford University.Founded in 1920 and named after a local river, Cherwell is a subsidiary of independent student publishing house Oxford Student Publications Ltd.
The first academic houses were monastic halls. Of the dozens established during the 12th–15th centuries, none survived the Reformation.The modern Dominican permanent private hall of Blackfriars (1921) is a descendant of the original (1221), and is sometimes described as heir to the oldest tradition of teaching in Oxford.
The University of Oxford began to award doctorates for research in the first third of the 20th century. The first Oxford DPhil in mathematics was awarded in 1921. [59] The list of distinguished scholars at the University of Oxford is long and includes many who have made major contributions to politics, the sciences, medicine, and literature.
Radcliffe Observatory was the astronomical observatory of the University of Oxford from 1773 until 1934, when the Radcliffe Trustees sold it and built a new observatory in Pretoria, South Africa. [1] [2] It is a Grade I listed building. [3] Today, the observatory forms a part of Green Templeton College of the University of Oxford.
Somerville College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford [3] in England, was founded in 1879 as Somerville Hall, one of its first two women's colleges. Among its alumnae have been Margaret Thatcher , Indira Gandhi , Dorothy Hodgkin , Iris Murdoch , Philippa Foot , Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers .
The University College Record is the annual magazine sent to alumni of the college each autumn. The magazine provides college news on clubs and societies such as the University College Players and the Devas Club, as well as academic performance and prizes. News about and obituaries of former students are included at the end of each issue.
Reuben College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. [1] [2] The plans for the new graduate college, preliminarily named Parks College, were announced in December 2018. [3] It is the first new Oxford or Cambridge college founded since 1990, when the postgraduate Kellogg College, Oxford, was established.
As well as being one of the first Oxford colleges to take undergraduates and to appoint tutors to teach them, [8] [17] New College was the first in Oxford to be deliberately designed around a main quadrangle. [17] The college was about as large as all of the (six) existing Oxford colleges combined. [18] [19]