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  Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Magdalen is one of the most visited colleges in the university.
Magdalen College was founded 1458 in Oxford by William of Waynflete[?], bishop of Winchester, originally as Magdalen.
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 Magdalen College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magdalen College (pronounced [ˈmɔːdlɪn]) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Magdalen College was founded as Magdalen Hall in 1448 by William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester.
Magdalen is one of the three Choral Foundations in Oxford, meaning that the formation of the choir was part of the statutes of the college, the other two choral foundations being New College and Christ Church.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magdalen_College,_Oxford   (1186 words)

  
 magdalen > college life > awards and prizes
In addition Magdalen College cooperates with the newly established University scheme, by which bursaries of £1,000 (and £500 in subsequent years) are awarded to undergraduate students whose level of family income has incurred exemption from payment of the university tuition fee.
Magdalen College recognizes the academic achievements of its undergraduates by awarding Demyships (= demi-socii i.e.
The Choir consists of 16 boy Choristers who are educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and 12 Academical Clerks who are normally Magdalen College students and are appointed to special Choral Awards at the normal time of admission to the College.
www.magd.ox.ac.uk /college_life/awards.shtml   (1288 words)

  
 SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Public school (UK)
A public school, in common English and Welsh usage, is a (usually) prestigious school, for children usually between the ages of 11 or 13 and 18, which charges fees and is not financed by the state.
Preparatory schools (historically also known as private schools as they were usually privately owned by the headmaster) take children from the age of eight (or younger) and prepare them for their entrance exams to public schools.
It also omitted the City of London School, another day school, which derived from a medieval foundation of 1442, was reconstituted by a private Act of Parliament in 1835, and was held to be a public school by the Divisional Court in the case of Blake v City of London (1886).
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 BBC - h2g2 - Magdalen College School, Oxford
In 1456, it was superceded by Magdalen College, the license to found it being granted July.
The first pupils of the school were choristers of Magdaen College, this being one of the main ideas behind its construction.
In the possesion of Magdalen College School is the most beautiful Cricket ground in the world, a picture of which may be seen at the schools website on http://www.magdalen.oxon.sch.uk
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A104365   (506 words)

  
 Santa Clara University School of Law : Oxford
Magdalen College, which houses the Santa Clara program, is located on 50 acres of beautiful grounds bordering the River Cherwell.
This college, which dates back to 1458 (Magdalen's student pub is in a 13th-century building predating the college), includes architectural examples spanning seven centuries, as well as exquisite English gardens and the famous deer preserve.
The accommodations at Magdalen are the same as those occupied by Oxford students during the regular term, and residence in the College is subject to the same rules that govern regular Oxford students residing in Magdalen.
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 Magdalen College School, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Magdalen College School is an independent school for boys located on the edge of central Oxford, England.
Founded as part of Magdalen College, Oxford by William Waynflete in 1480, MCS is one of the most famous and prestigious public schools in Europe.
The School was originally founded by William Waynflete to educate the sixteen boy choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford who sang in the college's chapel, as well as other gifted local children of high academic achievement.
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 BBC - h2g2 - Magdalen College School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK
This original school was a low hall, situated south of St John's Hospital, which was between the present porter's lodge and the Great Tower of Magdelen College.
Magdalen College School also has the most beautiful cricket ground in the world.
Not to be confused with Magdalen Hall, Magdalen College or The Magdalen College School in Wainfleet.
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 magdalen > college life > the chapel
Magdalen College Chapel is among the most active in the University, with about a dozen services a week during Full Term.
The Dean of Divinity (which is what we call the College Chaplain) is the Revd Dr Michael Piret, and he is pastorally available to members of the College or of the congregation at any time.
In the early 1990s, members of the Chapel community were instrumental in the foundation of Oxford Aid to the Balkans (formerly Magdalen College Aid to Bosnia).
www.magd.ox.ac.uk /college_life/chapel.shtml   (766 words)

  
 MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL
Magdalen College School, Oxford, was founded by William of Waynflete in 1480 as a grammar school for boys.
It is now one of the highest achieving boys’ schools in the UK, earning the title of UK School of the Year 2004 from The Sunday Times.
There are two school orchestras, each of about 70 boys, as well as the choral society, madrigal group, a jazz band and chamber groups.
www.isbi.com /isbi-viewschool/523-MAGDALEN_COLLEGE_SCHOOL.html   (609 words)

  
 The High, Oxford: MCS
Magdalen College School was situated in Magdalen College itself from 1480 until it acquired its present site between Cowley Place and the Iffley Road in 1928.
Originally it was situated in the grammar hall, pictured left; in 1828 it moved to the disused buildings of Hertford College; and in 1851 it moved into a new schoolroom that is now the college library.
The boarders left the High Street in 1894 when a new boarding house, again intended for the Master as well as the boys, was built on the other side of the road on the west side of Cowley Place.
www.headington.org.uk /oxon/high/tour/north/mcs.htm   (342 words)

  
 First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Ivor Novello
Novello was educated at Magdalen College School in Oxford which he attended having won a soprano scholarship; his mother was similarly a singer.
He began writing songs while still at school under the name Ivor Novello of which a number were published and received a degree of popular acclaim.
With a reputation as something of a prodigy Novello left school and moved with his parents - his father was a tax collector - to London, living in New Bond Street in the immediate pre-war years.
www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/novello.htm   (596 words)

  
 Magdalen : 2007/8 Oxford University Undergraduate Admissions
Magdalen (pronounced Maudlen ever since its founding in the mid-15th century) has some of the most beautiful buildings in Oxford, new as well as ancient.
Magdalen is able to provide for students who run into financial problems.
The musical and theatrical lives of the college are particularly strong and there is a new state-of-the-art auditorium with full-scale film projection facilities.
www.admissions.ox.ac.uk /colleges/magd.shtml   (607 words)

  
 Brighton College Online : Staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mr Cairns MA (Oxon) joined Brighton College in January 2006 as the new Headmaster and has quickly made his mark as a History teacher too.
He was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and has taught at The Oratory School, Reading, been Head of History at Stewart's Melville College, Edinburgh and Usher (Deputy Head) at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
She was educated at Merton College Oxford and taught at Cheltenham College before coming to Brighton College in 1999.
www.brightoncollege.org.uk /home/college.asp?id=183580   (370 words)

  
 About   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jeremy Knowles attended Magdalen College School, Oxford, and then served as a Pilot Officer in the Royal Air Force from 1953-55.
He read Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford, subsequently being elected a Harmsworth Scholar at Merton and then a Research Lecturer at Christ Church.
Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Caltech, he returned to Oxford in 1962 as Fellow and Tutor of Wadham College, and was appointed to a University Lectureship in 1966.
www.chem.harvard.edu /groups/knowles/about.htm   (326 words)

  
 HOASM: Thomas Whythorne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He attended Magdalen College School, Oxford, and matriculated at Magdalen College.
For a time he was servant and scholar to John Heywood; subsequently he found employment as a music tutor and was taken into the service of the Duchess of Northumberland.
He published his in or about 1576; it was rediscovered in 1955, and reveals much about both musical and social practice of the time.
www.hoasm.org /IVM/Whythorne.html   (193 words)

  
 BCF National Schools Championship 2004/5
The competition, which is open to all schools in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, attracted 123 entries.
This is the second time Nottingham High School has won the competition in the 47 years that it has been running (last winning in 1992).
Millfield School A (14.3) 2½ 3½ Hampton School A (14.4); Magdalen College School B (12.5) 1 5 Oakham School A (16.2); Twickenham Prep School (12.6) 0 6 Southend HS (16.1); Aughton St Michaels (10.8) 1½ 4½ Nottingham HS B (12.6)
www.bcf.org.uk /events/bcfnatteam/school2005/index.htm   (704 words)

  
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Reported its Web-site, which advertises spare college places for A-level students who have just missed their grades, took 3,000 hits in the first hour from midnight.
Schoolboy Charles Roddie was the toast of his school after scooping six A grades in his A-levels.
The pupil of Magdalen college school, Oxford, has been a member of Mensa from the age of seven.
www.islamic-college.ac.uk /newsletter2/octpage4.html   (510 words)

  
 The Henley College - Courses - Sports Development Programme - Recent successes
The crew were racing as a quad scull against all the schools in the country.
The members of the crew currently study a variety of courses at the Henley College and are part of the Sports Development Group, which is in its pilot year at the College.The scheme allows students time to develop their Rowing during the College week alongside their academic studies.
The Henley College have just completed one of their most successful half terms of rugby, during which they have won all of their eight games.
www.henleycol.ac.uk /henleycollege/courses/curric/sports/success.htm   (823 words)

  
 Faculty of Arts & Sciences: About FAS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in England, Knowles was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
Among his awards are the Charmian Medal, the Bader Award, the Repligen Award, the Prelog Medal, the Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry, and the Nakanishi Prize.
He was awarded the Davy Medal of the Royal Society, and is an honorary fellow of Balliol College and of Wadham College, Oxford.
www.fas.harvard.edu /home/administration/dean.html   (357 words)

  
 BCF National Schools Championship 2003/4
It seems to be endemic in leagues and knockouts in Schools team chess - as opposed to one-day and individual events - and it has been going on for 20 years.
New schools are always appearing, but they tend to be less numerous than the ones that drop out.
Methodist College Belfast travelled by air to their fixture against Blue Coat Oldham, having arranged a (pleasant and free!) playing room at Liverpool airport.
www.bcf.org.uk /events/bcfnatteam/school2004/index.htm   (724 words)

  
 Oxford Advanced Studies Program
The course is fully residential at Magdalen College, one of the oldest and most magnificent of the colleges of Oxford University.
Supervision of the Halls is in the hands of our residential staff, who live with the students and keep a careful eye on their safety and well-being.
The view of Oxford from the top of Magdalen tower is an awe-inspiring sight.
www.oasp.ac.uk /summer/magdalen/magdalen.htm   (316 words)

  
 Oxford Advanced Studies Program
Applications are also invited from High School seniors and from college students who wish to spend a term or longer abroad.
for college students is residential at Somerville College, Oxford during the month of July.
Applications are invited from High School graduates or students of equivalent status.
www.oasp.ac.uk   (304 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette, 9 March 2000: Advertisements
Magdalen College School, Oxford's leading academic day school for boys has a close and long association with the University of Oxford.
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 The 1999 British Informatics Olympiad 09-10-1999
They won their places in competition with over 1000 students from 120 schools and colleges who entered the 1999 British Informatics Olympiad, and now go on to compete against teams from 70 different countries.
The top 15 went on to the final, at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, where their capabilities were stretched with written problems on sharing out cake and finding cross-references in literature, and programming tasks including zig-zagging numbers, shuffling cards, and helping two spies to map out a secret building.
The first stage of the BIO is a three-hour exam, taken at school, in which students solve problems with the aid of a computer.
www.olympiad.org.uk /publicity/r1999-3.html   (1292 words)

  
 Knowles Elected Trustee Of Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Knowles was born in England, where he was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford.
Before joining the Harvard faculty, he was fellow and tutor of Wadham College, Oxford.
In 1984, he was elected to an honorary fellowship of Balliol College, and in 1990, to an honorary fellowship of Wadham College.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1998/05.14/KnowlesElectedT.html   (401 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette, 21 September 2000: Advertisements
Administrator/researcher: the Keston Institute is an Oxford- based research charity which is the leading world authority on religious freedom in former communist countries, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union.
Excellent location, close to schools and all North Oxford recreational facilites: house with 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, 1 cloakroom, 2 reception rooms and large enclosed garden.
Summertown, North Oxford: spacious second-floor flat in good condition in purpose-built block on corner of Osberton Road and Woodstock Road; 3 double bedrooms, large kitchen/breakfast room, lounge, bathroom, new gas c.h., d.g., off-road parking, and garage.
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 Kenneth G. Wilson - Autobiography
My schooling took place in Wellesley, Woods Hole, Massachusetts (second, third/fourth grades in two years), Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass.
(from fifth to eighth grade), ninth grade at the Magdalen College School in Oxford, England, and tenth and twelfth grades (skipping the eleventh) at the George School in eastern Pennsylvania.
Later (before entering college) I remember working on symbolic logic with my father; he also tried, unsuccessfully, to teach me group theory.
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 :: Reigate Grammar School ::
He was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford, and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and The Queen's College, Oxford, where he completed an MA in Music.
Mr Thomas taught at The Leys School, Cambridge, and at The King's School, Canterbury, and spent five years as Director of Music at Fettes College in Edinburgh before moving to Trinity School, Croydon, as Deputy Headmaster.
His wife, Dr Andrea Thomas, is a historian and has taught in several leading independent schools.
www.reigategrammar.org /about/headmaster2.htm   (141 words)

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