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  Knox College, Otago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Knox College is a privately run residential hall affiliated to the University of Otago in New Zealand, providing accommodation for primarily first and second year students, with a smaller number of postgraduates.
Knox (along with Selwyn) aims to recreate some of the feeling of an Oxbridge college, and much of the terminology used within the college orginated in Oxford or Cambridge (intransigent students are "sent down"; there is a "Master", and "Fellows").
The visitor to the College is the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
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 Home - Knox College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale.
Knox's life from the time of his return to Scotland in 1559 is a part of the history of his country and its full story is to be sought in the histories of Scotland.
In 1564 Knox made a second marriage, which was greatly talked of at the time because the bride was remotely connected with the royal family and still more because she was a maiden of seventeen while Knox was three times as old.
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 Blaw Knox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Knox College, Otago, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand
Neither the place nor the date of the birth of John Knox, the Reformer, is settled beyond dispute; but the weightiest considerations favour Giffordgate, a suburb of the town of Haddington (16 miles east of Edinburgh) as the place, and 1513 or 1514 as the year.
Thence he proceeded either to the University of Glasgow, where the name "John Knox" occurs among the ''incorporati'' in 1522, or to St. Andrews, where he is stated to have studied under the celebrated John Major, a native, like Knox, of East Lothian and one of the greatest scholars of his time.
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 Selwyn College, Otago - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Selwyn College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
The college was founded by Bishop Samuel Tarratt Nevill in 1893 as a theological college training clergy for the Church of England.
Selwyn College, Otago bears no relation to Selwyn College, Cambridge though both Colleges are named after the same person.
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 Knox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Knox is a Scottish surname that comes from the Old English, "Cnoc", meaning ‘round-topped hill’ (knoll), particularly one in Renfrewshire.
Knox College, University of Toronto, a theological college in Toronto, Ontario, Canada affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in Canada
Knox Township, a township in Clarion County, Pennsylvania
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 Knox College, Dunedin, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Knox College is fortunate in having a large number of musical instruments available to its residents.
Knox College residents are also members of the New Zealand Youth Choir, the New Zealand Secondary Students’ Choir, as well as a number of other prestigious national and local choirs.
The Knox College Fleming Galway Organ Fellowship and Scholarship were instituted in 2002 as a result of the generosity of old-Knoxonian, Dr Hugh Fleming.
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 presbyterian.org.nz: Assembly 2002: F2-10 Council of Knox College and Salmond Hall Inc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
THAT the Constitution of the Council of Knox College and Salmond Hall be amended to provide for the Principal of the School of Ministry to be a member of the Council of Knox College and Salmond Hall, ex officio.
A satisfying rate of return of residents is still enjoyed by the College, with 68 applying for readmission for at least a second year in 2001 and 84 in 2002, which assists in the maintaining of a stable and supportive community.
College tutorials, made possible through the assistance of the College Tutorial Fund and which are currently offered in 21 papers, play a large part in assisting residents from Knox College and Salmond Hall with their studies.
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 University of Otago - Free net encyclopedia
Otago graduates are known to be among the most dispersed alumni in the world, with many graduates ultimately settling in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, China, India, Sri Lanka, Japan or elsewhere in New Zealand.
City College is influenced by two-thirds of its students coming from the Dunedin College of Education or the Otago Polytechnic, and Toroa House is almost exclusively filled by international students.
Otago's residential Colleges and Halls are not as significant in the life of the University when compared with the Colleges and Halls of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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 History & Tradition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
College House and Selwyn College began an annual sporting and cultural contest in 1930, where the colleges alternatively travel between Christchurch and Dunedin.
It is competed for during the year, and the College who has reached the highest standard of sporting achievements holds the shield for the next year.
The flaming torch has now been replaced by a borrowed bath from Knox College, which is carried by the sons and daughters of the ex-residents of Selwyn College.
www.selwyn.ac.nz /Pages/01_history_tradition.htm   (474 words)

  
 The world's top knox college websites
Knox College is a four-year coeducational private college located in Galesburg, Illinois.
Knox College is also the name of a University of Otago affiliated residential college located in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers.
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 Residential Colleges and Halls, University of Otago, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Colleges and Halls are a focal point for the 'living and learning' lifestyle for which Otago is renowned
There are 12 fully catered residential colleges and halls and Toroa House, a self-catering hall of residence.
Application for Accommodation in a College or Hall of Residence at the University of Otago 2006 in PDF format (300k).
www.otago.ac.nz /about/accommodation/halls.html   (824 words)

  
 Selwyn College, Otago   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Selwyn College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Otago in New Zealand.
Bishop Nevill was the pioneer of the Oxbridge-esque collegiate system at Otago, though he was only partially successful, with Knox College being the only other college with a true collegiate structure with a master and fellows who offer tutorials in the Oxbridge sense.
As a result of its history and organisation ("true college") it is very popular among new students to Otago.
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 Everything about Knox College   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women at the same school facilities; co-ed is a shortened adjectival form of co-educational.
However, the college began having financial problems and it was reopened as an all-male institution.
Examples of this parallelism include(d) Newcomb College at Tulane University in Louisiana, Radcliffe College at Harvard University in Massachusetts, and Barnard College at Columbia University in New York.
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 Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand // What's Presbyterian?: Synod of Otago and Southland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Synod of Otago and Southland is a regional court of the Church, with jurisdiction over Otago and Southland parish and church camp properties, and over the allocation of income from funds administered by the Otago Foundation Trust Board.
Otago and Southland parishes and church campsite committees apply to the Synod, through their presbyteries, for approval to: buy/sell/alter/lease buildings, borrow money, make applications to the Lotteries Grants Board.
Although the majority goes to Otago and Southland parishes, the Synod has a policy of allocating substantial sums (currently capped at 25 percent of total available income) to the national church for enterprises which are based in Otago/Southland.
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 New Zealand Educational Institutions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This flag is of Knox College, as far as I know the only college at Otago University, NZ to have its own flag.
Knox is unique among Otago's dozen or so colleges in that it started its life as a theological study centre, and still has close affiliations with the university's religious studies department, which has its library at the college.
The flag of the college has a St. Andrew's saltire in "Russian" pattern (i.e., blue on white, rather than the Scottish white on blue), on which is placed a dove (presumably Noah's), carrying a twig in its mouth.
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 Knox College, Dunedin, New Zealand
Knox Resident Julien Van Mellaerts has been chosen as the only New Zealander to accompaany the British National Youth Choir after being awarded a scholarship to fly to the UK and spend time with the choir..
The College was very fortunate in having the Warden of Arana Hall, Mr Jamie Gilbertson, to propose the toast to the College, and the reply was given by the College’s Ab Epistulis, Mr D. John Milnes.
At the Annual General Meeting of the Knox College Students’ Club, held in Cameron Hall on Sunday 18 September, James Anthony Marriner was elected President of K.C.S.C. James is a Law and Commerce student, who has been a Knox College Choral Scholar since the beginning of the 2005 academic year.
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 DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Cameron was the founder of Knox College, the instigator of the Presbyterian Social Service Association, and influential in the development of the University of Otago.
He was behind the founding of Knox College, which opened in 1909 and provided accommodation for the Theological Hall as well as a residential college for students of all denominations.
He was elected to the Otago University council in 1894, and was subsequently vice chancellor (1910--12) and chancellor (1912--25).
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 OC BOOKS Obituary Prof George Knight, reprinted from the Otago Daily Times   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was persuaded when he heard the new Pacific Theological College would be ecumenical, would recruit its students from throughout the Pacific and would teach to BD level.
By contrast, in 2000, when Dr Knight gained an honorary doctor of divinity degree at Otago University at the age of 91, he was one of the oldest recipients of an Otago honorary degree.
Dr Knight served as secretary of the Otago Council of Churches for eight years, was vice-chairman of the John McGlashan College Board of Governors, president of the Otago Battalion of the Boys Brigade and moderator of the Dunedin Presbytery.
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 Definition of University of Otago
The University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university and the world's most southerly.
Between 1874 and 1961 the University of Otago functioned as a College of the University of New Zealand, and issued degrees in its name.
These residential Colleges and Halls are not as significant in the life of the University when compared with the Colleges and Halls of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge -- with the exceptions of Selwyn and Knox Colleges which do have resident fellows and operate like Oxbridge colleges (with chapels, for example).
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 knox - Ask.com Search
History Knox College was founded in 1837 by anti-slavery social reformers, led by George Washington Gale.
Founded in 1837, Knox is a national liberal arts college in Galesburg, Illinois, with students from 45 states and 42 nations.
Henry Knox was born in Boston to William Knox and Mary...
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 The best Knox college Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Knox said he does not plan to obey new city contribution limits - which limit donations to $2,500 per individual and $10,000 per political committee - until he officially declares his candidacy.
The Princeton Review gave Knox top honors among schools in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest for most is the campus radio station of Knox College.
Knox College is not responsible for any contents, views, opinions and links contained in non-official pages hosted on Knox College web servers and listed within this search scope.
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 Knox College, Dunedin, New Zealand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Choral Scholars form the core of the Knox College Chapel Choir, which is augmented by ordinary members of the College.
The Choir sings regularly at services in the Ross Chapel, Knox College and from time to time in other churches and venues within the city of Dunedin.
Knox College is affiliated to The Royal School of Church Music.
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 Register of Otago & Southland Marriages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The original version of this register (on hard copy and fiche) compiled by Eleanor Leckie and Janice Poskitt in 1990 has 39,700 entries with over 11,000 entries having been subsequently indexed to date.
While we hold computer databases of many post 1920 Otago and Southland marriages, it is not our intention to place these details on our web site however we are happy to perform a search upon request.
As all entries may not have been thoroughly checked and in some cases the original hand writing has been difficult to decipher, these rolls may contain occasional errors.
www.archives.presbyterian.org.nz /marriageregisters/otagosouthlandmarriages.htm   (898 words)

  
 Towards the Elimination of Religious Prejudice
We need today’s religious leaders to engage in equally courageous acts of justice and empower their communities with a vision that the only option before us is a vision of each other as one loving family of diverse backgrounds with a common Mother/Father, a common home and a common destiny.
When I began my Theological studies at Knox Theological College in 1990, I was a young Baha’i filled with the desire to arm myself with the necessary resources to defend my Faith should that time ever arise.
If I had maintained my initial apologetic stance at Knox College, envisioning myself an armoured warrior in preparation for possible future battles between our faiths, it would have betrayed the true spirit of my own faith and indeed all religions whose ultimate purpose is to facilitate loving relationships.
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 Dunedin Local Customs - Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
Knox College opened in 1909, serving the University of Otago as an affiliated residential college.
Knox College is also the home of the School of Ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Otago University holds 6 graduation ceremonies per year.
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