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  Balliol College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Balliol College, founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Balliol is the only Oxford college to have its own bridge club; bridge is an integral part of Balliol and the club recently provided all four team in the cuppers semi-finals, a notable achievement.
The patron saint of the College is Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Balliol_College,_Oxford   (1344 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article: Balliol College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Traditionally, the undergraduates are amongst the most politically active in the university, and the college's alumni include several former prime minister (The person who holds the position of head of state in England) s.
The College was founded around 1263 by John de Balliol (additional info and facts about John de Balliol) under the guidance of the Bishop of Durham (additional info and facts about Bishop of Durham).
Balliol also takes pride in its college tortoise, Rosa, named after the notable German (A person of German nationality) Marxist (An advocate of Marxism) Rosa Luxemburg (additional info and facts about Rosa Luxemburg).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/balliol_college,_oxford.htm   (1233 words)

  
 Balliol College Library: Jowett Papers - Group II Class H
The note claims that this class included material concerning Balliol's incorporation of New Inn Hall, but JHJ noted that it was not here in 1979, and it remains missing.
[1] List of scholars at Balliol from 1825 to 1843.
The people are divided up into [titles on leaves quoted]: Fellows, Ex-Fellows, Honorary Fellows, Pall Bearers, Members of [BJ's] Family, Tutors and Lecturers (not Fellows), Distinguished Persons to whom seats in chapel should be assigned, and Heads of Houses.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk /library/jowett/jwt-2h.asp   (1122 words)

  
 Balliol College - Conference Facilities
Balliol College is one of the oldest colleges in Oxford and is ideally situated for conferences, training courses and corporate hospitality.
The College wine cellar has an impressive selection of wines - a wine list is available on request.
Balliol has its own squash, croquet court and a cricket ground for which enquiries are welcomed.
web.balliol.ox.ac.uk /conference   (639 words)

  
 Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It was supported by people of all denominations, a good sum was raised, clothes, food, seed and a plough were purchased for the mission, and loading these on a cart Salvado made his way back.
She was a good leader, able to show initiative and ready to co-ordinate the ideas of other people, she had a fine intellect and great powers of work, she commanded the loyalty of her associates, and the combination of these qualities made her one of the great personalities of her period.
He was one of the leaders in the movement for the establishment of the women's college, and as dean of the faculty of arts encouraged the teaching of modern literature, history and philosophy, and the inauguration of university extension lectures.
gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html   (21493 words)

  
 AboutDarwin.com - People of Note
Below is a list of people who had an influence on the life of Charles Darwin.
While this is not an exhaustive list, it does cover all of those who had a major influence on his life.
Gray was educated in medicine at the Fairfield College of Physicians and Surgeons, and graduated in 1831.
www.aboutdarwin.com /people/people_01.html   (7956 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Wyclif
It is certain, however, that he was educated at Balliol College and that in 1361 he must have resigned the mastership on receiving the living of Fillingham.
The explanation may possibly be found in the fact that Balliol was an "Arts" college and that most of its fellows were not allowed to graduate in theology.
For a list of contemporary authorities, which are very numerous, see RASHDALL in Dict.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/15722a.htm   (2450 words)

  
 Balliol College MCR
There is a Bar and common room in Balliol which you are entitled to use - members of the MCR are automatically members of the JCR (there is a small levy per term) unless they specifically opt out of being one, but it is very rare for people to do this.
There's loads of things to join in Balliol, probably the most well known is the College choir which sings in the chapel, though there are also recitals in Balliol (about two or three per term).
The College also has a nurse who is available for confidential appointments but you MUST sign up in Fresher's week so college can register you with a local GP.
www.ballioljcr.org /mcr/freshers.htm   (2918 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette, 22 June 2000: Colleges
Balliol College proposes, if a suitable candidate applies, to appoint a six-hour Stipendiary Lecturer in Physics for the academic year 2000–1 during the sabbatical leave of Dr J.W. Hodby.
Balliol College is seeking to appoint a Senior Tutor's Secretary with effect from 2 August 2000.
The Warden and Fellows of New College propose to elect a candidate to the position of full-time College Chaplain, commencing from September 2001.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/1999-00/weekly/220600/coll.htm   (1752 words)

  
 Balliol College - Conference Facilities - Banquets and Events
We offer a wide selection of rooms that are ideal for private dinners parties, from our medieval Old Common Room, which comfortably seats 18 people, to our candle lit Grand Hall which is able to seat over 200.
The College wine cellar has an impressive selection of wines to accompany your meal; please contact us for further details.
Balliol College has so much to offer, our superb cuisine, wine list and spectacular rooms provide a dinner party with a difference.
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk /conference/events/index.asp   (214 words)

  
 The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges & the Renewal of Campus Life
The benefits of a University education cannot be thought to consist merely in the acquirement of knowledge, but in the opportunities of society and of forming friends; in short, in the experience of life gained by it and the consequent improvement of character.
How to Build a Residential College — The theory and detailed practice of everything from administration to the placement of bulletin boards (including a summary as well as major pages on membership and administrative structure, buildings and grounds, college life and the annual cycle, pastoral care, and academic life).
He served as a resident tutor in Dudley House, one of the residential colleges at Harvard University, and was the principal founder of Cornelia Strong College at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, serving as its senior tutor (dean of students) for six years.
www.collegiateway.org   (990 words)

  
 Graduate Studies Office: Junior Research Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In general terms (but subject to any conditions associated with a particular college or award) the awards listed here are intended for those who seek funding to enable them to undertake research at post-doctoral level, or who are well-advanced in their doctoral research.
Accommodation in College or a housing allowance, together with free lunches and dinners, and allowances for hospitality and research expenses.
Remarks Archaeology (to be construed as the study of material civilization of any people or country at any period between the earliest Stone Age and the year AD 1500, subject to the exclusion of the American Continent and of Greek and Roman Archaeology.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /gso/jrf.shtml   (5290 words)

  
 Arthur's Seat
It is Arthur's Seat's first rule of Scottish politics that policy reform generated in England will be rejected by Scotland's politocracy on the basis that "things are different here" while the same people will be delighted to entertain reform proposals if they come from Ireland or one of the nice and cuddly Scandinavian countries.
Humphrey Errington was asked to withdraw his product from the market even though no illnesses had occurred among the many people who consumed the cheese, and even though the test results were inconsistent and unreliable.
The case went to court where after a protracted case, the sheriff found in favour of Errington and commented that Listeria monocytogenes is a commonly found bacterium that rarely causes illnesses and that there was no evidence that the particular serotype 3A found in Lanark Blue was pathogenic.
arthursseat.blogs.com   (1014 words)

  
 Cherwell Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A student at Balliol College was arrested and detained in custody for a night after he verbally abused a police horse early on Monday morning.
The issue was discussed by the College at a meeting of the Safety Committee on Wednesday, which agreed that the use of the ledges was “incredibly dangerous”, according to St Catz Home Bursar James Bannett.
On Monday St Peter’s College JCR passed a motion mandating the JCR President to write to celebrity chef Jamie Oliver asking him to assess the food served in their hall, after the College took measures to introduce a set of additional charges for meals in an attempt to “eradicate waste”.
www.cherwell.org /?id=3228   (870 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette, 6 July 2000: Colleges
Corpus Christi College exists to promote excellence in education and research and is actively committed to the principle of equality of opportunity for all suitably qualified candidates.
Exeter College wishes to appoint an Assistant to the Steward, to assist in the allocation and management of all college-owned accommodation, both in term and in vacation, and to deputise for the Steward in her absence.
Exeter College exists to promote excellence in education and research and is an equal opportunities employer.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/1999-00/weekly/060700/coll.htm   (2477 words)

  
 Susskind lecture - William Mitchell College of Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Susskind has a first class honors law degree from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford.
Susskind holds professorships at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and at Gresham College in London.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society and was awarded an OBE in the Millennium New Year’s Honours List for Services to Information Technology in the Law and to the Administration of Justice.
www.wmitchell.edu /news/articles/susskind1002.html   (240 words)

  
 Biographical and Reference Look-up Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
No schoolboys listed here but the masters are - and many other things - the books index is listed on the next page to allow you to find the person you are interested in.
A huge book (2069 pages) listing all those who were in the theatre and still living in 1952, each has a 3/4 page biography and includes many who were born as far back as the 1870s.
Gives a list of 8842 yachts listed by Lloyds, by name, type, tons, dimensions, who built and when, engines, who the owner was, what port it belongs to.
www.cartes.freeuk.com /history/historic.htm   (2363 words)

  
 Donald MacDougall
The marriage was dissolved and he married secondly, in 1977, Margaret Hall, who was a Fellow in economics at Somerville College, Oxford, and the former wife of another government economic adviser, Sir Robert Hall; she died in 1995.
Looking back, it may seem to have been inevitable that the College would succeed, but that it did so was due to the academic reputations of the early Fellows and their emphasis on serious research.
Roy had examined Donald in PPE, supervised his post-graduate work at Balliol, and kept in touch with his later work, and was convinced that he would be suitable, the essential being his flair for ferreting out and handling quantitative data.
www.nuff.ox.ac.uk /economics/people/fellows/MacDougall.html   (16333 words)

  
 Oxford Scholarship Online: Justice, Posterity, and the Environment
More resources devoted to the environment means fewer are devoted competing claims for, say, health care or education or housing, not to mention plain private consumption.
And in poor countries millions of people suffer from acute lack of sanitation, clean drinking water, shelter, and basic infrastructures to prevent or cure widespread disease.
The later chapters of this book, therefore, are addressed to the ethical aspects of the way that resources ought to be shared out between environmental protection and competing uses in all countries, and how the burden of dealing with global environmental problems ought to be shared out between rich and poor nations.
www.oxfordscholarship.com /oso/public/content/politicalscience/0199245088/toc.html   (317 words)

  
 Balliol College, Oxford
Not strictly a 'collaboration', but they are kind enough to provide us with rooms at the college, making this our UK entertainment base.
Alan is a graduate from the University's Department of Educational Studies, just around the olde corner, and Balliol was gracious enough to accept him.
Oddly enough, though, it was Balliol's Master of the 1920s, Lindsay, who founded Keele University, and where Alan studied for his first degree, and, come to think of it, we were married in the Chapel by the COllege Chaplain Douglas Dupree not so long ago!.
www.workpad.com /index_list.aspx?ObjectID=10221   (215 words)

  
 English Renaissance Bibliography Finding-List
Lists publications of the Public Record Office (London), Public Record Office (Belfast), Scottish Record Office, and House of Lords Record Office.
List and Analysis of State Papers, Foreign, in the Reign of Elizabeth I. Ed.
Lists all principal reference works including many eliminated from this bibliography for want of space.
www.chass.utoronto.ca /~ian/9002bbbl.htm   (9573 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact
In the last days before the 2004 Presidential election, Patrick Henry College, in Purcellville, Virginia, excused all its students from classes, because so many of them were working on campaigns or wanted to go to the swing states to get out the vote for George W. Bush.
Homeschoolers are not the most obvious raw material for a college whose main mission, since its founding, five years ago, has been to train a new generation of Christian politicians.
Last year, the college began offering a major in strategic intelligence; the students learn the history of covert operations and take internships that allow them to graduate with a security clearance.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/articles/050627fa_fact   (4331 words)

  
 MOO GHOSTS file list
student becomes "Wesley Channing," who attends the burial of John Wyclif in 1384 and has a flashback to Balliol in 1373.
student drinking absinthe in Paris ends up at Queen's College Oxford in the snow in 1355, during the riots of St. Scholastica Day.
A spider in the President’s office at U.T. dialogues with a spider at Exeter College who inspired the fantasy writer Philip Pullman, a spider at Christ Church who influenced Lewis Carroll, a spider at Magdalen who inspired C. Lewis, and a spider at Merton who influenced J. R.Tolkien.
www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/VSA/Oxford.html   (319 words)

  
 Home Page of J.R. Lucas
It examines the fundamental principles of economic activity in order to enable people to answer these questions, and think through the problems they face, and to reach their own decisions.
I have listed in colour the names of those in Merton with whom I have shared pupils, those I have given lectures and seminars with, and those with whom I have worked on other projects in Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, Edinburgh, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, and elsewhere.
I have recently had an E-mail from Mr Evin Harris of Trinity College Dublin, drawing attention to an anticipation of the Godelian argument by Berkeley.
users.ox.ac.uk /~jrlucas   (2901 words)

  
 UK Colleges List
This is a list of further and higher educational institutions in the United Kingdom.
The list is not complete and it is surprising the number of colleges that do not include this basic information on their web pages.
If you want it, there is a list of college names, addresses etc., in a form that should be suitable for loading into a spreadsheet.
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk /ukinfo/felisth.html   (9029 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine - The Prospect for Israel's Arabs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
IT IS not easy to answer the question so often asked of Palestinian old-timers: '"What do people like yourself feel about the Arabs in Israel today?" The further question usually implied, rather...
...For two years I was on the Mufti's list of British officials to be assassinated and had to take very careful precautions to remain alive...
...Samuel was born in London in 1898, the son of Viscount Herbert Samuel, the first Palestine High Commissioner, and educated in Balliol College, Oxford...
www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V19I5P50-1.htm   (3213 words)

  
 HES: QUERY -- Roy Harrod's inter-war correspondence
him to also reply to the list or to carbon copy the info to me
lists whose subscribers could be of help in this search.
people are held (whom I know have corresponded with Harrod):
www.eh.net /lists/archives/hes/sep-1997/0062.php   (435 words)

  
 ICQ.com - Search Results
Undergraduate and Graduate prospectuses, list of fellows, college
the college, and list of tutors and fellows.
Hertford College is one of the 45 constituent colleges and halls of Oxford...
www.icq.com /search/welcome_results.php?q=related:http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk   (123 words)

  
 Menso Folkerts' medieval list of Euclid manuscripts
It was written or compiled probably at the end of the twelfth century; the only manuscript which transmits the complete text, Oxford, Balliol College 257, seems to have been written in the first half of the thirteenth century.
One indication of the authorship of Adelard III is the ambiguous ascription by Roger Bacon, editio specialis Alardi Bathoniensis.
I have listed some of them in chapter 20 of the enclosed list of manuscripts, but I assume that there are many more texts.
www.math.ubc.ca /people/faculty/cass/Euclid/folkerts/folkerts.html   (11332 words)

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