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  New College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
The second college in Oxford to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, it was founded by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester.
The college is also in possession of a respectable collection of silver (including the mediæval silver gilt Founder's Crozier, housed in a display case in the chapel), and a notable "unicorn horn" (in fact a narwhal tusk).
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: New College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Quad lawn, Harris Manchester College, Oxford Harris Manchester College, formerly Manchester College, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Mansfield College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
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 New College, Oxford University
New College began life as St. Mary's College, the brainchild of William Wykeham, influential Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England.
When New College was founded in 1379 it was the first college to be designed around the now obligatory quadrangle (although Merton's Mob Quad is older, it grew up organically, rather than by plan).
The original charter to New College stipulated that the college was responsible for the upkeep of that section of the city wall which formed its boundary.
www.britainexpress.com /cities/oxford/new-college.htm   (446 words)

  
 History of Oxford New College school – of choristers ancient and modern
The five hundredth anniversary of the founding of New College fell in 1879 and the choir gave a recital of contemporary works by Parry, Sterndale Bennett, Garrett and Sullivan, the organist at that time being GB Arnold, followed a year later by Dr James Taylor.
New College was particularly fortunate in having a succession of distinguished organists during the twentieth century, namely Hugh Allen, William Harris, John Dykes Bower, Dr Sydney Watson, HK Andrews, Meredith Davies, David Lumsden and Edward Higginbottom.
There was much new building from 1955 onwards which included an assembly hall, four classrooms, a library and a flat for domestic staff; and a few years later a gymnasium, a swimming pool and a three storey block housing a music room, a science block, a woodwork room and a pottery room.
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 New College : 2007/8 Oxford University Undergraduate Admissions
When New College was founded in 1379, it was larger than all the existing colleges combined; it is still one of the largest colleges both physically and in numbers of students - 600 in total, divided 420/180 between undergraduate and graduate students.
New College particularly welcomes applications to the newer joint schools, such as Philosophy and Modern Languages, Physics and Philosophy, Modern Languages with English or History, and Economics and Management.
The college library, built in the 1930s, is a light and convenient building, holding some 100,000 volumes, 60,000 of them on open shelves and for undergraduate use; it holds up-to-date collections of books for all undergraduate courses, and books are purchased as students need them.
www.admissions.ox.ac.uk /colleges/newc.shtml   (641 words)

  
 New College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Its official name College of St Mary is the same as that of older Oriel College ; hence it has been referred to the "New College of St Mary " simply "New College." One of the bigger it stands in Holywell Street "behind" The Queen's College.
Despite its name New College is one the oldest of the Oxford colleges having been founded in the 14th century.
The college was original founded to priests for the parish of Winchester.
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 The University of Reading - ICDVRAT - 2004 - Venue: New College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New College is one of the largest Oxford colleges.
The name of the College sometimes strikes visitors as odd in an institution more than 625 years old; its origin is that the College's "official" name - the College of St Mary - is the same as that of Oriel College.
New College was intended to help to replace the missing clergy, and there was space in Oxford for a new college.
www.icdvrat.reading.ac.uk /2004/venue.htm   (356 words)

  
 New College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
New College is one of the oldest colleges, in a large and central site, with a thriving international graduate community of nearly 200 students; this represents almost a third of the College membership, and makes the New College MCR one of the largest graduate communities in Oxford.
The College is above all an intellectual and educational community, a place in which staff and students alike engage in a lively exchange of ideas which encompasses a vast range of subjects.
For all members of New College, the experience of discussion not only with specialists in one's own field but also with experts in very different disciplines is an exciting and enriching one.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/newc.shtml   (470 words)

  
 University College Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He returned to Oxford in 1973 as Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Balliol College, before moving to the University of Chicago as Professor of History in...
Oxford was actually home to two colleges in the mid 1800's.
As Univ grew in size and wealth, its medieval buildings were replaced with a new Front Quad in 1640, followed by the additional Radcliffe Quad by 1719, and the Library was built in 1861.
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New College is one of the 39 constituent colleges of Oxford University.
These web pages aim to provide an insight into all aspects of life at New, and include information, news and resources for those who may be interested in applying to study here, for current and old members of the College, and for anyone seeking a distinctive venue for a conference or function.
New College is particularly keen to attract good students and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds.
www.new.ox.ac.uk   (176 words)

  
 Trinity College Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oxford graduate Sir Ian agreed: "Leadership in the 21st century has to be...
Trinity College (in full: The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Trinity College was founded in 1555 by Sir Thomas Pope.
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 New College - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New College is the name or nickname of many academic institutions, including:
Before it was named in 1639, Harvard College was often referred to as "the New College"; it is debatable whether or not this was ever a name in the usual sense of the word.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: New College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
College name Brasenose College Named after Bronze door knocker Established 1509 Sister College Gonville and Caius College Principal Prof.
College name Keble College Named after John Keble Established 1870 Sister College Selwyn College Warden Prof.
Full name Somerville College Motto Donec rursus impleat orbem Named after Mary Somerville Previous Names Somerville Hall Established 1879 Sister College Girton College Principal Dame Fiona Caldicott JCR President Simon Bruegger MCR President Allen Middlebro Location Woodstock Road, Oxford Undergraduates 396 Graduates 88 Homepage Boat Club Somerville College is one...
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 Article 1
There is a long history of sundials in Oxford with many splendid examples, old and new, in college gardens and on college buildings.
At New College (founded in 1379, and not at all new) there has been a tradition of dialling on a grand scale.
After a day rummaging in the college library and in oak chests in the medieval Muniment Tower I found a print of the 1670's showing a large horizontal dial planted out as part of a knot garden in the college grounds.
www.harrietjames.sundials.co.uk /articles.htm   (1463 words)

  
 TimeRef - History Timelines
William Courtenay was elected the new archbishop of Canterbury by the Kentish rebels who crowded into the church.
Norfolk rebels entered Norwich and (18-26.6) were repelled by local landowners, led by Henry le Despenser, bishop of Norwich; the bishop met the rebels (26.6) at North Walsham and captured their stronghold; rebel attacks occurred at Peterborough Abbey and Dunstable priory, and in Buckinghamshire and Leicestershire.
William of Wykeham founded Winchester College so that prayers could be said for his soul for all time.
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 The Choir of New College Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New College Choir’s annual Chorister Open Day provides an opportunity for prospective choristers and their parents to find out about the life and daily routine of a New College chorister, to see the choristers rehearsing, and to attend an evensong in chapel.
Evensong at New College is attended not only by members of the college and Oxford residents but also by choral music aficionados who sometimes travel great distances to hear the choir in its home acoustic.
New College has recorded it twice (on a Priory disc, PRCD 596, some ten years ago, and more recently on In Excelsis Erato 0927 44657-2) but hearing it live is 100 times more electrifying.
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 New College, Oxford
As well as being the first Oxford college for undergraduates and the first to have Senior members of the college give tutorials, New College was the first college in Oxford to centre on a main...
New College, Oxford, is of rather late foundation, hence the name.
Select New College students at Hofstra University have the unique opportunity to study for one semester or an entire academic year at Oxford University in England.
www.logicjungle.com /wiki/New_College%2C_Oxford   (364 words)

  
 New College : Choir   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
New College Choir is an outstanding part of musical life in Britain.
His work at Oxford is divided between the Choir and Faculty of Music, spanning standing ovations at the Concertgebouw to teaching first-year undergraduates music aesthetics of the time of Louis XIV.
His work with New College Choir has placed him among the leading choral conductors of our time.
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 The Choir of New College Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A long association with Corpus Christi College Cambridge followed, beginning with an organ scholarship (winning the John Stewart of Rannoch university prize in Sacred Music), continuing with graduate work and a doctoral thesis on French baroque music, and ending with a research fellowship (1973-76).
Edward Higginbottom was appointed Director of Music at New College in 1976 at the unusually young age of 29.
His work at Oxford is divided between New College Choir and the Faculty of Music where he teaches performance practice alongside other specialisms.
www.newcollegechoir.co.uk /director.htm   (404 words)

  
 Choir Of New College Oxford - New Music - Peoplesound   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As Inviola, the piece expertly presented here by the Choir of New College Oxford shows, Despres wrote with a sense of musical zest and harmonic adventure that was miles away from the elaborated plainchants of his not too distant predecessors such as Hildegard De Bingen.
New College Choir tackle this admirably, doing justice to the complexities of the piece and evoking it''s worshipful religious intentions while at the same time investing it with a sense of freedom and even perhaps a hint of secular Mediterranean joi de vivre, giving this sacred music a delightfully human touch.
The use of solo voices is one of the characteristics, though very significant in that it allowed for a personalized expressive declamatory style.
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 Trinity College, Oxford University
Sir Thomas Pope established Trinity College in 1555 with an eye on his eternal well-being - he wanted to ensure that he and his family would be remembered in the prayers and masses sung by college members.
When a new cellar was built under the old hall of Durham College in 1618, the hall collapsed and had to be replaced with the present building.
The college rebounded after the Restoration, and the reign of Charles II saw thw building of new quarters for rich nobility (designed by Christopher Wren), and the establishment of the formal college garden.
www.britainexpress.com /cities/oxford/trinity.htm   (453 words)

  
 Oxford College Appoints New Chaplain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As pastor and director of religious life for the college community he will provide leadership in worship, study, fellowship groups, interfaith discussion, service learning projects, counseling and leadership development.
His musical and ministerial gifts, his rich Methodist heritage and his experience with multi-cultural interfaith groups are well matched with Oxford College, which as the "mother campus" of Emory University continues to cherish its Methodist roots while becoming richly diverse in staff and student body.
Oxford College, a two-year undergraduate division of Emory University, is located in Oxford, Ga., the town designed and chartered by the Methodist Church as the original home of Emory.
www.emory.edu /OXFORD/Publications/News/chaplain.html   (263 words)

  
 Record box. A sure touch - Edward Higginbottom conducts New College Oxford Choir, appreciated by Basil Ramsey
The immaculate choir of boys and men singing on their home ground in New College Chapel, Oxford, UK, shows the striking contrast between unaccompanied singing and flute solos [listen -- track 7, 1:46-2:41], with the sympathetic acoustic of this chapel clothing sound with a matching radiance.
Against the colossal attraction of a Cambridge college chapel and its music this CD demonstrates that others also keep this repertory alive and faithfully presented [listen -- track 17, 1:16-2:28].
Anna Noakes, flute; Philip Cave, tenor; Roderick Morris, treble; Nicholas Fuggle, treble; The Choir of New College Oxford; Edward Higginbottom, conductor
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 Choir of the New College Oxford (Choir) - Short History
The Choir of New College Oxford (= CNCO) is one of the UK's leading ensembles, enjoying a world-wide reputation for the range of its work, and the originality of its recording projects.
Its work in Oxford focuses on the sung liturgy of the chapel of New College, where during the University terms it sings the daily services in the College’s 14
The Choir of the New Collge Oxford (Naxos)
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 AIM25: Royal College of Physicians: BATE, George (1608-1669)
Whilst the Court remained at Oxford Bate had become physician to the King, despite it first being thought that he was a puritan.
He was admitted a Candidate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1639, and a Fellow in 1640.
Bate served as Censor of the College in 1645, 1646, and 1648.
www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/8/7110.htm   (754 words)

  
 New College
B.A., Amherst College; M.A., University of Tennessee; M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia
The President of New College since 2001, Professor Michalson specializes in religious thought in the West from the Enlightenment to the present.
Professor Miles is the director of New Music New College, a group that performs cutting-edge compositions (including compositions by members of the group).
www.ncf.edu /catalog/newcollegefacultyhum.htm   (2349 words)

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