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		Students successful in early examinations are rewarded with scholarships and exhibitions, normally the result of a long-standing endowment, although when tuition fees were first abolished the amounts of money available became purely nominal: much larger funded bursaries are available on the basis of need for current and prospective students.
		Lists of well-known former students and present and former Fellows of the university can be found under the entries for the Colleges of Oxford University.
		Duns Scotus' Oxford is one of Gerard Manley Hopkins' better-known poems.
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/u/un/university_of_oxford.html (1292 words)

	University of Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities), the LERU (League of European Research Universities), and is also a core member of the Europaeum.
		Oxford is a collegiate university, consisting of the University's central facilities, such as departments and faculties, libraries and science facilities, and 39 colleges and 7 Permanent Private Halls (PPHs).
		Oxford has had a role in educating four British and at least eight foreign kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, three Fields medallists, 25 British Prime Ministers, 28 foreign presidents and prime ministers, seven saints, 86 archbishops, 18 cardinals, and one pope.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Oxford (2913 words)

	University of Oxford - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oxford consists of a number of separate colleges, and students are enrolled in a specific one.
		Each student and teacher is associated with a specific college, rather than with the university as a whole, and undergraduates normally complete most of their course work in "tutorials" within their own colleges.
		Oxford lagged behind Cambridge in going over to a system whereby prospective students could be offered entry conditional on A-level results, in line with the practice in other British universities.
	openproxy.ath.cx /un/University_of_Oxford.html (904 words)

	List of University of Oxford people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list of old members, or alumni as they are often referred to today, has been divided into categories, but it should be noted that these categories are somewhat arbitrary.
		Oxford alumni include at least 10 kings of six different nations, 53 presidents and prime ministers of 19 different nations (including 25 British prime ministers), seven saints, one pope, 18 cardinals, 86 archbishops, three Fields medallists and 47 Nobel prize-winners (including winners of all categories).
		Former students of the University of Oxford
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_notable_Oxford_students (547 words)

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		Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British Universities.
		Oxford is, like Cambridge and others, a member of the Coimbra Group, a network of leading European universities, and the LERU (League of European Research Universities).
		Following the murder of two students accused of rape in 1209, the University was disbanded (leading to the foundation of the University of Cambridge).
	pardus.info /index.php?title=University_of_Oxford (1642 words)

	University of Oxford - Biocrawler definition:University of Oxford - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Oxford University and Cambridge University (which was founded by scholars who left Oxford) are sometimes referred to collectively as Oxbridge.
		Oxford is a member of the Russell Group of research-led British universities, the Coimbra Group (a network of leading European universities) and the LERU (League of European Research Universities).
		Oxford has produced four British and at least eight foreign kings, 47 Nobel prize-winners, three Fields medallists, 25 British Prime Ministers, 28 foreign presidents and prime ministers, seven saints, 86 archbishops, 18 cardinals, and one pope.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Oxford_University (2311 words)

	Oxford
		The first attested reference of Oxford is in 912, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, when it was held by Edward the Elder (a son of King Alfred) because it was a strategic position between his territory in Wessex and that of the Danes.
		At this point, Oxford was known for its teaching of mathematics and natural sciences, and because of the friaries, theology.
		Oxford was the Capital of England for four years, during the reign of King Charles I. He "borrowed" from the University to equip his army, taking all their silver to melt down and use in the Royal Mint set up in Oxford.
	www.angelfire.com /ak3/dailyword/oxford.html (2917 words)

	BRJ Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Students' perception of the reading process and their oral proficiency in English were also examined as possible influences on cross-linguistic transfer.
		Students who conceptualize reading as a unitary process in both languages, have a positive attitude toward their native language, and are aware that it can be a resource, have a greater potential to transfer reading strategies across languages (Jiménez, et al., 1995, 1996).
		Students' protocols were grouped into Able (Ab), Average (Av), and Less-Able (LAb) readers of Spanish according to the Aprenda (Aprenda: La prueba de logros en español-Technical Data Report, 1991), a norm-referenced test administered by the district during the time of the data collection in the spring of 1999.
	brj.asu.edu /v254/articles/art7.html (8405 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: University of Oxford
		Meals are served either in the college halls or in the students' rooms; and attached to every college is a chapel where daily service is held during term according to the forms of the Church of England.
		What is noteworthy at Oxford is the trouble taken by tutors in the work of individual instruction, which, while involving a great, and sometimes disproportionate, expenditure of time and talent, has done much to establish and consolidate the personal relations between tutor and pupil which is a distinctly beneficial feature of the Oxford system.
		The Rhodes Scholarships, open to Colonial and American students, are of the annual valule of £300 each; but it is to be considered that their holders have as a rule to make this sum suffice for all their wants, in vacation as well as in term-time.
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	Oxford Information - The Scholar's Guide to Oxford, UK. Tourist information for visitors to the University city of ...
		Students can only become a member of the University if they are first accepted by a college or hall, and each college is entirely responsible for its own admissions policies.
		Oriel holds the record for the longest name in Oxford, since its official name is 'The Provost and Scholars of the House of the Blessed Mary the Virgin in Oxford, commonly called Oriel College, the foundation of Edward the Second of famous memory, sometime King of England'.
		It was at the centre of the Oxford Movement in the 19th century, but in recent times has become more famous for rowing, having finished Head of the River in most of the last 25 years of the 20th century.
	www.oxford-info.com /Colleges.htm (2685 words)

	EPA > Wetlands > Wetlands Reading List (Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12)
		Students and teachers are encouraged to expand their horizons beyond the list, to refer to other books by the same and other authors and to search out books covering similar subjects as those contained herein.
		Students may observe mammals such as a muskrat or beaver by sitting patiently and quietly alongside a marsh which shows signs of muskrat or beaver activities (stumps along the edge of or a lodge in the marsh) at dusk.
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	www.epa.gov /OWOW/wetlands/science/readlist.html (13473 words)

	UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 1555 - 6 the Protestant Oxford_Martyrs, Latimer, Ridley and Cranmer were burned at Oxford.
		Terry_Jones and Richard_Burton studied at the University, as did film-maker Ken_Loach; Evelyn_Waugh, Lewis_Carroll, Aldous_Huxley, Oscar_Wilde, Vikram_Seth and the poets Shelley, Donne, Auden and Philip_Larkin are amongst the long list of writers associated with Oxford.
		There is a second university in Oxford - Oxford_Brookes_University http://www.brookes.ac.uk/, formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic.
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	OUGC
		Oxford’s win was particularly pleasing for captain David Selchen who was forced to withdraw from the singles due to a recurrence of a wrist injury he incurred last January.
		Oxford’s points, both morning and afternoon, came peculiarly from only the top two matches, although the quality of The Moles’ side was belied by the fact that Bruce Streather, the current President’s Putter champion, played no higher up the order than the third game.
		The pair, displaying the intellect Oxford students are renowned for, marked their ball with a white marker, and having failed to refind it on the frost covered green within the allowed five minutes, declared the ball lost and forfeited the hole.
	www.earth.ox.ac.uk /~roberts/OUGC.htm (6075 words)

	List of FPGA-based Computing Machines
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		Zhang, a student at the University of Qiqihar in Heilongjiang Province, was charged on November 8, 1999, with "disseminating reactionary documents via the Internet," according to the Hong Kong–based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy.
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	www.shakespeare-oxford.com /evernew9.htm (6242 words)

	Lesson Plan: Famous Irish Americans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this exercise students examine the contribution of Irish Americans to the United States.
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	www.pitt.edu /~press/goldentrianglebooks/IrishAm.html (193 words)

	Amazon.com: Dictionary of Celtic Mythology (Oxford Paperback Reference): Books: Peter Berresford Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		This is most notable in cases where the book says, "There are no fewer than seven persons of this name in Celtic mythology.
		Yet despite this minor shortcoming, this is one of the books I reach for first when I need to look up the details of some obscure Irish hero or monster.
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	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/02/02/taraBSmith.html (921 words)

	Language
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