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The National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote competitive table tennis at the collegiate level in the United States and Canada. As of 2012, 155 universities competed in 28 geographical divisions, organized into 6 different regions throughout the United States , Canada and Puerto Rico .
Tompkins Table. The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking that lists the Colleges of the University of Cambridge in order of their undergraduate students' performances in that year's examinations. Two colleges— Darwin and Clare Hall —do not have undergraduate students and do not feature in the list. It was created in 1981 by Peter Tompkins ...
The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges, [5] founded between the 13th and 20th centuries. No colleges were founded between 1596 ( Sidney Sussex College) and 1800 ( Downing College ), which allows the colleges to be distinguished into two groups according to foundation date: the 15 "new" colleges, founded between 1800 and 1977.
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.
Cambridge University Rugby Union Football Club was officially established in 1872, around three years after the Oxford Rugby Club was founded. The first Varsity match was contested between the two teams on 10 February 1872. The Cambridge team was led out by captain Isaac Cowley Lambert, wearing pink jerseys with a monogram on the left breast.
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted a letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. [3] Cambridge University Press is a department of the University of Cambridge, and is both an academic and an educational publisher ...
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [5] Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, [6] with the largest financial endowment of any Oxbridge college. Trinity performs exceptionally as measured by the Tompkins Table (the annual unofficial league table of Cambridge ...
Researchers have concluded that the wall, which extends over 2.7 kilometers (1.7 miles), was built by the Roman general Marcus Licinius Crassus in 71 BCE. Spartacus served in the Roman army before ...