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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Magdalen College, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		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.
		History Magdalen College was founded 1458 in Oxford by William of Waynflete[?], bishop of Winchester, originally as Magdalen.
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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Wycliffe Hall is a Church of England theological college, and one of the constituent institutions of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
		St Edmund Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
		The English Dominican House of Blackfriars Hall in Oxford, commonly known simply as Blackfriars, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wycliffe-Hall%2C-Oxford (1723 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Lady Margaret Hall, the first women's college in Oxford, was founded in 1878 by Elizabeth Wordsworth, a great-niece of the poet William Wordsworth and daughter of Christopher Wordsworth, Bishop of Lincoln.
		Greyfriars is one of the smallest constituent Halls of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
		Lady Margaret Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lady-Margaret-Hall%2C-Oxford (4219 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Magdalen College (pronounced "maudlin") is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.
		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.
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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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	Campion Hall, Oxford - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Campion Hall is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
		Its status is a "permanent private hall" and it is one of the smallest in the university, consisting of under forty members.
		Campion Hall is run by the Society of Jesus ("Jesuits") and exists specifically to allow those with a commitment to the religious life to study within the university.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Campion_Hall%2C_Oxford (116 words)

	Magdalen College, Oxford - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Magdalen College (pronounced [ˈmɔːdlɪn]) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
		Magdalen is regarded by many as the most beautiful of the Oxbridge colleges.
		Magdalen College was founded in 1448 as Magdalen Hall in Oxford by William of Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, becoming Magdalen College in 1458.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Magdalen (190 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: St Benet's Hall, Oxford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Benet's Hall is a Benedictine establishment, whose principal function is to allow Catholic monks (primarily Benedictines and related orders, most notably the Premonstratensians of England) to study as undergraduates within the University.
		The Oxford University Student Union is the official student union of the University of Oxford, representing the interests of its members to the university and the outside world.
		The Hall had always primarily been a venue for monastic study, but the falling number of vocations led to the admission of lay men to fill vacant places, which have over time come to be the majority of the Hall's undergraduate members.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/St-Benet's-Hall,-Oxford (3710 words)

	John Wilkins
		John Wilkins (1614-1672), bishop of Chester, was born at Fawsley, Northamptonshire, and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
		He was ordained and became vicar of Fawsley in 1637, but soon resigned and became chaplain successively to Lord Saye and Sele, Lord Berkeley, and Prince Charles Louis, nephew of Charles I and afterwards elector palatine of the Rhine.
		Under him the college was extraordinarily prosperous, for, although a supporter of Cromwell, he was in touch with the most cultured royalists, who placed their sons in his charge.
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	magdalen > history > a general introduction
		Magdalen was among the first colleges in Oxford to teach science.
		Magdalen has some of the most hauntingly beautiful buildings of Oxford and sits amid a hundred acres of woodlands, riverside walks, and lawns, among which the most famous is the Deer Park which houses the College's three hundred year old herd.
		Magdalen does not pressure students to become involved in sports activities (or in any activities outside the curriculum) but prides itself on the high quality of all its facilities.
	www.magd.ox.ac.uk /history/intro.shtml (1025 words)

	Robert Plot - LoveToKnow 1911
		ROBERT PLOT (1640-1696), English naturalist and antiquary, was born at Borden in Kent in 1640.
		He was educated at Wye, and at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1661, and proceeded to M.A. (1664) and D.C.L. He was distinguished for his folio work The Natural History of Oxfordshire (1677), in which various fossils, as well as other objects of interest, were figured and described.
		He was appointed in 1683 the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and in the same year he became professor of chemistry.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Robert_Plot (146 words)

	Travelocity.com: Destination Guides: Oxford
		Many Americans arriving at Oxford ask, "Where's the campus?" If a local looks amused when answering, it's because Oxford University is, in fact, made up of 35 colleges sprinkled throughout the town.
		The grounds of Magdalen are the most extensive of any Oxford college; there's even a deer park.
		The first quadrangle, dating from before the end of the 14th century, was the initial quadrangle to be built in Oxford and formed the architectural design for the other colleges.
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	§4. Oriental Scholars. XV. Scholars, Antiquaries and Bibliographers. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge ...
		The last of these scholars was the first holder of the chair of Chinese founded at Oxford in 1875, while at Cambridge an honorary professorhip of that language was held until 1895 by Sir Thomas Francis Wade, who presented to the university his valuable library of Chinese literature.
		Meanwhile, Friedrich Max Müller, who had settled at Oxford in 1848, and had published an edition of The Rigveda in 1849–73, gave two admirable courses of Lectures on the Science of Languages at the Royal Institution in 1861–4, which led to his appointment as professor of comparative philology at Oxford in 1868.
		From 1867 to 1903, Edward Byles Cowell of Magdalen hall, Oxford, president of the Sanskrit college, Calcutta, was the first holder of the professorship of Sanskrit at Cambridge, and, with the aid of his pupils, issued an important series of Sanskrit texts and translations.
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	ELIOHS - Jones - Dictionary of National Biography - Voice: Pococke, Edward
		After a brief residence at Oxford, which was now disturbed by the civil war, Pococke was presented by his college in 1642 to the rectory of Childrey in Berkshire (Living-book of Corpus Christi College).
		Hall, 1648,’ which is doubtless the date at which the whole work was first set up).
		In June 1660 Pococke attended the vice-chancellor of Oxford when he waited upon Charles II with felicitations on his happy restoration; and on the 20th of the same month his Hebrew professorship, together with the canonry and lodgings at Christ Church properly assigned thereto, was formally granted him by letters patent.
	www.eliohs.unifi.it /testi/700/jones/Pococke_Life.html (3230 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		Magdalen Hall came into existed in August, 1448, and existed under that title for some ten years, after which it was replaced by the larger foundation, established on the site of the former hospital of St. John, and known ever since as Magdalen College.
		Richard III was also received by him at Magdalen, immediately after his coronation, and assigned certain estates to the college in memory of his visit.
		He died less than four months later, and was buried in the chantry chapel built by himself behind the choir of Winchester Cathedral, where 5000 masses were by his direction celebrated for the repose of his soul, in honour of the Five Sacred Wounds.
	www.ccel.org /search?category=definitions&qu=W&term=William+of+Wayneflete (1059 words)

	St Edmund Hall, Oxford Information
		Like the University of Oxford itself, the precise date of establishment of St Edmund Hall is unknown; it is usually estimated at 1226.
		St Edmund Hall began life as one of Oxford's ancient Aularian houses, the mediaeval halls that laid the foundation of the University, preceding the creation of the first colleges.
		St Edmund Hall is based on a small central site on the north side of the High Street.
	www.bookrags.com /St_Edmund_Hall%2C_Oxford (352 words)

	Thomas Hobbes - Philosopher - Biography
		When he was 14 years old he went to Magdalen Hall in Oxford to study, already an excellent student of Latin and Greek.
		He left Oxford in 1608, and became the private tutor for the eldest son of Lord Cavendish of Hardwick (later known as the Earl of Devonshire).
		Oxford University dismissed faculty under the premise of being "Hobbits".
	www.egs.edu /resources/hobbes.html (1348 words)

	Oxford, Oxfordshire - Town Guide
		Magdalen College was founded by William of Waynflete in 1456.
		In the hall of the Divinity Schools, Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer were tried in 1555, and Parliament, driven from London by the plague, met in 1675.
		Oxford is a very good centre for exploring the Cotswolds, the Thames Valley and the Berkshire Downs.
	www.townpages.co.uk /oxfordshire/oxford.asp (228 words)

	History of Oxford Magdalen College school – of choristers ancient and modern
		Another tradition, peculiar to Magdalen and surviving to this day, was the singing of a hymn on top of the tower at dawn on May Day morning; the origin of this is unknown.
		The choristers were producing a Magdalen school newspaper at this time and in the issue dated 1 May 1840 they recounted that the old custom of throwing rotten eggs down from the tower at the May morning festivities had been revived.
		The old schoolroom in Magdalen Hall was pulled down and the boys were temporarily accommodated in rooms in the Chaplains’ Quadrangle.
	www.ofchoristers.net /Chapters/OxfordMagdelen.htm (4899 words)

	Into the Wardrobe :: View topic - Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
		Magdalen College was founded originally as Magdalen Hall half-way up the High Street in Oxford in 1448.
		It established in the 17th century its connection with the Physic Garden on the south side of Magdalen Bridge, which is today the Oxford Botanic Garden.
		Thomas Cranmer, later Archbishop of Canterbury was appointed a lecturer at Magdalene in 1515...
	cslewis.drzeus.net /forums/viewtopic.php?p=3890 (843 words)

	Oxford Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		Magdalen College was founded in 1458 by William of Waynflete when he acquired the site of an old hospital.
		It is one of the most spacious colleges in Oxford, set in over 100 acres of grounds on the banks of the River Cherwell (pronounced Charwell) Some of it's magnificent buildings are spread around an attractive quadrangle, with pretty gardens and lawned areas.
		Magdalen boasts it's very own 300 year old deer park where feeding the animals is strictly forbidden.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Oxfordshire/Oxford-307338/Things_To_Do-Oxford-R-7.html (1485 words)

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		And that's all Philip Keevil, the City banker whose son failed to get into Trinity College, Oxford, was asking for - a slight tipping of the balance when it comes to picking from applicants tied for a single place, after Mr Keevil had spent years raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for the university.
		His son wasn't some illiterate mute, dragged through expensive crammers and dumped in the echoing hall of the president of Trinity's lodgings, a large cheque for the college building fund stuffed in his pocket.
		He was also at Magdalen, from 1960-63, and might also have been familiar with the college before he got there.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2001/12/21/do2101.xml (864 words)

	McCartney premiere at Royal Albert Hall - Boston.com
		The concert will feature soprano Kate Royal and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Orchestra; London Voices; the boy singers of Magdalen College Choir, Oxford; and the boys of King's College Choir, Cambridge, conducted by Gavin Greenaway -- the same cast that appears on the studio recording, to be released Tuesday by EMI Classics.
		Anthony Smith, president of Magdalen College from 1998-2005, asked the former Beatle to compose a work celebrating the opening of the college's new concert hall.
		The first version of "Ecce Cor Meum" was performed with the Magdalen College Choir at Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre in November 2001.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/09/22/mccartney_premiere_at_royal_albert_hall?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+News (306 words)

	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.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A279498 (344 words)

	§7. Thomas Hobbes; His life and character. XII. Hobbes and Contemporary Philosophy. Vol. 7. Cavalier and Puritan. ...
		He was already a good Latin and Greek scholar when, not yet fifteen, he was sent to Magdalen hall, Oxford.
		Yet he seems to have learned the logic and physics of Aristotle, as they were then taught, though he preferred to “lie gaping on maps” at the stationers’ shops.
		On leaving Oxford, in 1608, he became companion to the eldest son of lord Cavendish of Hardwick (afterwards created earl of Devonshire), and his connection with the Cavendish family lasted (although not without interruptions) till his death.
	www.bartleby.com /217/1207.html (921 words)

	::: Chrysalis : Content Creation Projects : “The Natural History of Staffordshire” by Robert Plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He was educated at Wye and then at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, graduating with BA in 1661, MA in 1664, DCL in 1671.
		He began his study for a multi-volume work in Oxfordshire, where he was living at the time, which resulted in the publication in 1677 of The Natural History of Oxford-shire, being an essay towards the Natural History of England.
		Subsequently, in 1683, he was appointed Professor of Chemistry and the first Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford.
	www.chrysalisinfo.org.uk /plot.htm (312 words)

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