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  Downing College, Cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Downing College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
The college was founded in 1800 under the will of Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet with the wealth left by his grandfather, Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet, who served both Cromwell and Charles II and built 10 Downing Street (a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college).
The college is renowned for its strong Legal and Medical tradition, the former subject being built up by the late Professor Clive Parry, his pupil and successor John Hopkins (now an emeritus fellow) and the current Director of Studies in Law and Senior Tutor, Graham Virgo.
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Downing College of Cambridge University is known throughout the world for excellence in the fields of law and medicine.
Downing College is in the heart of the city of Cambridge.
The Cambridge Holiday Inn, the University Arms, the Garden House and Regent hotels are all within a five-minute walk of Downing College and have accommodated Cambridge Studies Program students for years.
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 About Downing College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing offers a friendly atmosphere, a good mixture of undergraduates and graduates, and an outstanding base from which to carry out your studies.
Downing is committed to excellence and we aim for the highest standards of academic attainment, teaching, pastoral support, accommodation, and facilities for social and cultural activities.
Downing was founded in 1800: it is both the newest of the ‘old’ Colleges and the oldest of the ‘new’.
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 Downing College - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing College, college of the University of Cambridge, England.
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 Downing College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The college was founded in 1800 under the will of Sir George Downing (also famous for the street of the same name in London - a door formerly from Number 10 is in use in the college).
He died in 1749 and the delay in getting the college going was due to his relatives' legal wrangling over the will: so much legal wrangling, in fact, that there wasn't much money left for the college itself.
Hence the grandiose plans for a square of buildings based on the Classical Greek style and of a size to overtake the Great Court at Trinity College had to be curtailed.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Downing College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Downing Professorship of the Laws of England is one of the senior professorships in law at the University_of_Cambridge.
The chair was founded in 1800 as a bequest of Sir George Downing, the founder of Downing College, Cambridge.
The original electors of the were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, and the masters of the colleges of Clare, St John's and Downing.
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 South West students visit Downing College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing College is linked to local education authorities (LEAs) in the South West and runs a wide range of events aimed at raising the aspirations of students in the region and encouraging more of them to apply to Cambridge.
Downing College held its first widening-participation open day in 2000, making it the College's longest-running access initiative.
From visiting schools, I know that the distance to Cambridge, the misconception that everyone here is a 'posh genius' and the fact that it is difficult to envisage being at Cambridge are major factors in making sixth-formers sceptical about this university.
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 Downing college cambridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Downing College Library - Quinlan Terry - Driehaus Prize - News and Events - School of Architecture - University of ...
With the college's commitment to classicism and its strong emphasis on the Greek Revival, it was felt appropriate that this building should form a 'capriccio' of the outstanding monuments of the Acropolis.
For that reason the Portico of Augustus forms the main entrance and south portico of the building; the Choragic monument of Thrasyllus forms the East Portico; and the Tower of the Winds forms the octagonal cupola, which has a Greek Corinthian capital at the apex with a weathervane.
The entrance doorcase is a combination of Greek work with splayed architraves combined with Michelangelo's doorcase at the Medici Chapel, Florence where the reduction in width of the architrave and fine detail foreshadow the change in taste from the Roman to Greek detail.
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 Downing College, Cambridge: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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 Noble Denton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The numbers of undergraduates and graduates admitted to Downing to study for each of the courses offered by the University are not precisely predetermined, but vary slightly from year to year according to the College’s assessment of the intellectual ability and potential of those who apply.
The Engineering course at Cambridge, aims to produce engineers who are flexible across the range of engineering disciplines and are able to master unexpected technical and managerial demands throughout their careers.
The unique structure of the Cambridge Engineering degree, means that students are not constrained by the boundaries between the traditional engineering disciplines, but are fitted to lead multi-disciplinary teams and to apply new technologies in novel situations.
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 The University of Mississippi - Continuing Legal Education
Downing was founded under the 1749 will of Sir George Downing, for whose grandfather Downing Street (of Number 10 fame) was named.
Rural England is a fiveminute walk from Downing's gates with its sheep meadows, peaceful River Cam, and charming country villages all there for the exploring.
The Cambridge Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza, the University Arms, the Garden House and Regent hotels are all within a five-minute walk of Downing College and have accommodated Cambridge Studies Program students for years.
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 Downing College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Hence the grandiose plans for a square buildings based on the Classical Greek style of a size to overtake the Great at Trinity College had to be curtailed.
The third side of the square was completed in the 1950s with the building the college chapel.
The Psalms of David from Kings Choir of Kings College, Cambridge, Vol.
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 Downing College
Downing College has a unique and magnificent setting amidst 17 acres of lawns and trees, yet is in the very centre of Cambridge.
The buildings, which are predominantly new-classical in style, convey a sense of elegance and spaciousness, enhanced by harmonious proportions, graceful columned porticos, and delicate pink and yellow stone.
All College rooms are provided with bed linen, towels and soap, tea and coffee making facilities, and are serviced daily.
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 Downing College Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing's main character is a grammarian, so presumably Downing knows that paragraphs exist for a reason.
Right at the start, he sets the tone by stating that his dismissal from the college made him a poster child for the sort of people who throw around the term "politically correct" to intimidate good people.
Downing's principal goal should have been keeping the story where it was most interesting, or at least transitioning it better.
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 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 8 March 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing College invites applications for a fixed-term two-year post of College Teaching Officer in History, with effect from 1 October 2001, to cover a period of leave of absence of the permanent post-holder.
The appointment is non-renewable and is subject to the statutes of the college.
Downing College is committed to a policy of equality of opportunity.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2000-1/weekly/080301/appts/entry_10.htm   (164 words)

  
 News - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The appointment is subject to the Statutes and Ordinances of the College.
The successful candidate will be expected to reside in Cambridge, to undertake an average of twelve hours of teaching a week during Full Term (at least 240 contact hours a year) and to participate in the life of the College.
Application forms and further particulars relating to the post can be obtained from The Senior Tutor, Downing College Cambridge CB2 1DQ (email ceb34@cam.ac.uk) to whom completed applications and a C.V. should be returned by 9 December 2005.
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 Downing College JCR Website
At Cambridge, Oxford and Durham, students live sleep and work in colleges, and are taught by the university.
None of the colleges are really that different- they all have beds, food and libraries, and there will be ‘your kind of people' in every one.
Downing is stunning to look at, especially in summer or when it's snowing.
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 Downing College Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a fellow at Downing College, Cambridge from 1936 to 1962, and a pioneer of the "Cambridge English" that would help determine the way English was taught in...
He was educated at Lancing College and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, before attending the...
ED BOLTON, 20, from Salisbury, Wilts, is in his third year studying material science at Downing College, Cambridge.
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 Downing College MCR: Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cambridge is beleaguered by bizarre expressions, phrases, contractions, and abbreviations, the majority of which you will never use.
Cambridge University Student Union, the University-wide student union to which Downing MCR is not currently affiliated as it is a waste of space (not that it occupies much space, lacking a union building).
Downing College Amalgamation Club, a body made up of all the junior members of college (i.e.
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 Downing College Handbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
College prizes (of value from £60 to £120) are awarded to all undergraduates who obtain First Class Honours or achieve equivalent distinction in University examinations; these prizes are in the form of book tokens.
Occasionally the College may be able to provide accommodation in a flat for graduate students with partners by appointing the students as Hostel Keepers; for those seeking accommodation outside of College the University keeps a register of accommodation suitable for graduate students.
College members are responsible for their guests (especially for larger parties), who have to abide by the College's codes of dress and behaviour.
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 Downing College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The charter colleges were: Nova Scotia Technical College, Halifax; University of Kings College, Halifax; Nova Scotia Teachers College, Truro; Xavier College, Sydney; Universite Ste.
"Elite" colleges such as Columbia and NYU are indeed interested in candidates from atypical backgrounds, and this often includes transfer applicants from community colleges.
The fact that you CAN pay for your son's college is great.
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 Downing College JCR Website
Downing is a cultural melting pot: we get international students from all over the world, and students from every corner of the UK.
And although Downing College and Cambridge University are undoubtedly English institutions, they are world-renowned and attract the best scholars of the current generations.
Downing has five purpose-built or adapted rooms suitable for students using wheelchairs: three for undergraduate and two for graduate students.
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 I Staircase, Downing College, Cambridge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
After successfully integrating himself with humans within Cambridge, Tim is now considering leaving the comforts of the Shire behind and moving to the more cosmipolitan environment provided by Bree.
He pretends to be a good football player, and we pretend to believe that his only role on the team isn't handing out the halftime oranges.
Having heard of the massive 'pubs per head' available in Cambridge from Lej, James immediately acquired a dog and took it for a walk, straight into 'Spoons, where he has enthusiastically been walking it ever since.
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 Portfolio > Client Sponsorship | Indigo Clothing
"Downing College is about to host a group of sixth form students who are visiting Cambridge as part of CUSU's Access "Shadowing" Scheme, designed to encourage people to apply to university.
I want people to sponsor me for my bike ride, to help me reach a target of 1000 pounds, so that together we can show these students just why Downing College is such an amazing college, and why university is such a great place.
I want all the students participating in the shadowing scheme to leave Downing having had the best weekend ever, and to this extent I think we should be doing all we can to make their weekend exciting, fun, and free.
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 Downing College, Cambridge - InformationBlast
He died in 1749 and the delay in getting the college going was due to his relatives' legal wrangling over the will.
So much legal wrangling, in fact, that there wasn't much money left for the college itself.
Where the fourth side would have been is now a large paddock ("The Paddock") with many trees.
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 Graduate Studies Prospectus: Downing College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Downing is a medium-sized, friendly, informal and academically successful college.
Although the College admits a significant number of students for one-year courses, those intending to read for the PhD degree are especially encouraged.
The President and Secretary of the MCR attend College Committee and Governing Body meetings to represent the views of graduates.
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 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 26 September 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Applications are invited for a post as a College Teaching Officer in any field of British or Continental European History, associated with a fellowship of Downing College.
Further periods of reappointment may be possible, but will depend on the college's continuing need for the post as well as on the individual's performance in it.
The successful candidate will be expected to reside in Cambridge, to undertake an average of twelve hours of teaching a week during Full Term (at least 240 contact-hours a year), and to act as Director of Studies in History.
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