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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.
Boniface College, Oxbridge Pendennis by William Thackeray, inspired by his time at Cambridge and home to the poet Sprott. [1] Fernham College, Oxbridge A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf, based on Newnham College, established in 1871 as the first exclusive women's college at Cambridge University. [2] [3] Footlights College, Oxbridge
People associated with the University of Oxford by college (46 C) Alumni of the University of Oxford (6 C, 3,546 P) Fellows of colleges of the University of Oxford (43 C)
The rankings of each college in the Norrington Table are calculated by awarding 5 points for a student who receives a First Class degree, 3 points for a 2:1, 2 for a 2:2 and 1 for a Third; the total is then divided by the maximum possible score (i.e. the number of finalists in that college multiplied by 5), and the result for each college is expressed as a percentage, rounded to 2 decimal places.
Most of the colleges forming the University of Cambridge and University of Oxford are paired into sister colleges across the two universities. [1] The extent of the arrangement differs from case to case, but commonly includes the right to dine at one's sister college, the right to book accommodation there, the holding of joint events between JCRs and invitations to May balls.
Oxford College may refer to: The University of Oxford, collegiate research university located in Oxford, England; Colleges of the University of Oxford. There are various institutions in Oxford that use the phrase "Oxford College" in their name, but have no connections with the University; Oxford College of Emory University in Oxford, Georgia, USA
The college is named after St Edmund of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, the first known Oxford Master of Arts and the first Oxford-educated Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived and taught on the college site. The name St Edmund Hall ( Aula Sancti Edmundi ) first appears in a 1317 rental agreement.
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 .