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  Worcester College, Oxford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Worcester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
The Chapel, redesigned in the Victorian period by William Burges, is highly unusual and decorative; being predominantly pink (the College colours are pink and fl), the pews are decorated with carved animals, including kangaroos and whales, and the walls are riotously colourful, and include frescoes of dodos and peacocks.
Although Worcester is near the centre of Oxford today, it was on the edge of the city in the eighteenth century.
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 Encyclopedia: Worcester College, Oxford
Kellogg 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.
Magdalen College (pronounced) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Worcester-College,-Oxford   (3344 words)

  
 Worcester College, Oxford University
The college, called Gloucester, was housed in part in small cottages, which still survive as part of the present Worcester College.
Worcester College is fortunate in that a number of notable architects had a hand in the creation of its buildings.
One of the major attractions for visitors to Worcester College is the extensive (28 acres) gardens, which are every bit as popular as the historic architecture.
www.britainexpress.com /cities/oxford/worcester.htm   (375 words)

  
 Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University : IFSA-Butler Programs : England : Oxford University : Worcester College
The college also is known for having one of the most active and well known drama societies at Oxford; check out the frequent performances in the college gardens.
Worcester's location has been the setting for other colleges and halls since 1283, thus the grounds have an ancient look and rank among the most beautiful in Oxford.
Worcester is the only college in the University with its own playing fields on the college grounds, and it also owns a boathouse.
www.ifsa-butler.org /programs/england/oxford/worcester   (209 words)

  
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The Oxford Institute is held with the co-operation of Magdalen College, a constituent college of quasi-federal Oxford University, which provides classrooms, an office, and housing.
Oxford is the gateway to Wales and the Cotswolds.
The Oxford Institute organizes a number of legal visits, such as the courts in Oxford, as well as a trip to London to tour one of the Inns of Court and legal London.
www.acusd.edu /lawabroad/00oxford.htm   (880 words)

  
 Worcester College : Oxford University Graduate Studies Prospectus 2006/07
Worcester College occupies 26 acres of wooded gardens, with a lake and playing fields within its grounds, and yet is only a few minutes walk from the city centre.
Each graduate is assigned a College Adviser who, as far as possible, has interests in the same subject area, in addition to his or her University supervisor.
The College is committed to making arrangements to enable students with disabilities to participate as fully as possible in student life.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /postgraduate/colleges/worc.shtml   (554 words)

  
 o x f o r d l a w - news and events
Worcester College and Brasenose College propose to appoint a one-year Stipendiary Lecturer in Law, with effect from 1st October 2005.
The lecturer will also be expected to assist with the administration of law studies at Worcester College, including participating in the admissions process and undertaking the pastoral care of students.
The lecturer will be entitled to the use of a teaching room in Worcester College, and to senior common room membership, with free lunches and dinners.
denning.law.ox.ac.uk /news/jobdetail.phtml?ID=22   (204 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 26 February 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Worcester College proposes, if candidates of sufficient merit present themselves, to award a Junior Research Fellowship and Lecturership in Philosophy, tenable from 1 October 2004 for up to, but not more than, three years.
The college is an equal opportunities employer, and consideration will be given to applications submitted by candidates who can demonstrate that the application of this age-limit would be inappropriate in their circumstances.
Worcester College proposes, if candidates of sufficient merit present themselves, to award a Junior Research Fellowship in Music, tenable from 1 October 2004 for up to, but not more than, three years.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2003-4/weekly/260204/appts/entry_15.htm   (409 words)

  
 [info] Opler Fellowship in Architectural History 2005-7
The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History Worcester College Oxford Worcester College, Oxford is pleased to be able to offer a two year residential Fellowship in the study of Renaissance or Baroque architectural history through the generosity of the Scott Opler Foundation.
Worcester College and Oxford offer unique scholarly resources for the study of Renaissance and Baroque architectural history.
Fellows are required to be based in Oxford throughout the academic year, although it is expected that they may need to travel for research purposes.
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 Worcester
The college entrance is at the junction of Beaumont Street, Walton Street and Worcester Street, close to the city centre and coach station, and 10 minutes' walk from the train station.
Worcester has a modern undergraduate library with individual reading cubicles, and about 60,000 volumes; there is a separate Law library and a magnificent Old Library which houses collections of European importance.
Worcester College is committed to making arrangements to enable students with disabilities to participate as fully as possible in student life, and applicants are advised to contact the Tutor for Admissions with details of any special needs.
www.admissions.ox.ac.uk /colleges/worc.shtml   (609 words)

  
 The World Authors Series — Sample Profile of INGE, WILLIAM RALPH
English clergyman and writer, was born in Crayke, Yorkshire, the eldest son of William Inge, a curate and provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and
He was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where his career, as he afterward remarked, was "mainly a record of scholarships and prizes." After leaving Oxford in 1884 he became a master at Eton, a position he found uncongenial.
In 1888 he was elected fellow and tutor of Hertford College, Oxford, and in the same year he was ordained a deacon.
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 Reporter 22/4/98: Worcester College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The College proposes to elect a Junior Research Fellow in Law, from 1 October 1998.
The Fellow will also be required to teach the law of tort for the College and, at least in the first year, the law of contract.
An application form and further particulars may be obtained from the College Secretary, Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB (fax 01865 278303).
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5734/59.html   (156 words)

  
 The Mystery Worshipper: Worcester College Chapel, Oxford, England
The church: On the weekday evening I visited, on what was a momentous occasion for the college, there were less than a handful of people in the congregation.
College prayerbooks were available (which looked like the old 1928 Book of Common Prayer) as were hymnbooks.
They swapped places a few times in the service which is quite a distraction as they are on the ground floor by the entrance and very visible to all.
www.ship-of-fools.com /Mystery/2001/422Mystery.html   (586 words)

  
 Oxford University Gazette: Appointments, 3 July 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Worcester College invites applications from men and women in Priest's orders in the Church of England or the wider Anglican Communion to serve as Chaplain with effect from 1 September 2003 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Chaplain is expected to be available to all members of the college for consultation on any pastoral matter, and will be a member of the college's welfare committees.
Worcester College invites applications from men and women for the post of Chapel Music Consultant with effect from 1 September 2003 or as soon as possible thereafter.
www.ox.ac.uk /gazette/2002-3/weekly/030703/appts/entry_6.htm   (392 words)

  
 Bridgewater State College
Oxford, with its proximity to London and Stratford-upon-Avon, and its numerous summer Shakespeare productions, is also an ideal place in which to see the plays in performance.
There are Oxford dons (Carroll, Tolkien, Lewis, Murdoch) and Oxford settings (from the cryptic mazes of Alice’s Wonderland to Beerbohm’s tragi-comic fantasy of suicidal love to the doomed yet idealized images of Brideshead Revisited).
Enroute we shall be trying on the changing masks of fantasy, indulging in nonsense and the absurd, and asking questions about their relation to logic and reason, imagination and madness, freedom and convention, satire and society.
www.bridgew.edu /oxford/lit.cfm   (686 words)

  
 Worcester College (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Worcester College is the name of several colleges.
Worcester State College - located in Worcester, Massachusetts
This is a disambiguation page — a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Worcester_College_(disambiguation)   (100 words)

  
 2003Winners   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
She followed this with a two-year diploma course at the Royal College of Music, and is currently on a further two-year course at Trinity College of Music.
Sholto Kynoch was born in 1979 and was an Organ Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford.
She was educated at Oxford High School and Trinity College of Music, and won a master’s degree at Indiana University.
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 Worcester College Boat Club
Worcester College Oxford is renowned for its sport, and rowing is no exception.
In 2005 our club will be celebrating its 180th birthday, having been one of the first five Oxford colleges to take part in the now infamous bumps racing.
We are past winners of the prestigious Thames Challenge Cup at Henley and also jointly hold the Oxford University record for the most bumps gained by a single crew over a four-day event (11).
wcbc.worc.ox.ac.uk   (121 words)

  
 Worcester College Oxford FC Homepage
The second team play in division 1 of the Oxford University AFC intercollegiate 2nd/3rd team league and this season we also have started a third team.
There's also an MCR team playing in division 1 of the Oxford University MCR league - their website is new and so may not be fully operational.
If you're keen on football (doesn't matter what standard) then Worcester's a good college to go to - it is the ONLY Oxford college with sports fields on site meaning you can roll out of bed on a Sunday morning and wander across to football practice.
www.earth.ox.ac.uk /~davidr/footie   (333 words)

  
 Dixon_Arthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Merton College was one of the Oxford Colleges with a strong historical mathematical connection, since the first school of mathematics there was organised by Thomas Bradwardine in the middle of the 14
The climate of Oxford proved disastrous to Mrs Dixon's health and she was compelled to spend much of her married life outside Oxford, in Pau and elsewhere.
Dixon's fellowship allowed him to remain at Merton College until he was appointed to the Savilian chair of pure mathematics in Oxford in 1922.
www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Mathematicians/Dixon_Arthur.html   (705 words)

  
 PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888) - Online Information article about PRICE, BONAMY (1807-1888)
OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
Oxford, in 1825, where he took a See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PRE_PYR/PRICE_BONAMY_1807_1888_.html   (284 words)

  
 Graduate Studies Office: Junior Research Fellowships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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.
Type The main interests of the College are in Economics, Politics, and Sociology, but these are broadly construed to include, for example, social science approaches to history, social and medical statistics, international relations, social psychology and social policy.
www.admin.ox.ac.uk /gso/jrf.shtml   (5290 words)

  
 Union College
He holds the titles of fellow and tutor in classics of Worcester College and university lecturer in Greek and Latin language and literature.
He interviewed for the Worcester position in July, delivering a paper, "Maenads and Men," in which he argued that the female followers of Dionysus carried on their rituals in the presence of men.
A Toronto native who holds Canadian citizenship, he is the first Canadian ever to be appointed to a position in classics at Oxford, where there are three Americans on the fifty-two-member faculty.
www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=4360   (221 words)

  
 President Larry P. Arnn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Arnn is on the board of directors of The Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College, Americans Against Discrimination and Preferences, the Center for Individual Rights and The Claremont Institute.
The College has launched the Hoogland Center for Teacher Excellence, which holds educational seminars for high school teachers in history, government, economics and civics.
Arnn is currently heading up the College's $400 million Founders Campaign for capital and endowment goals that will expand the school's buildings and grounds, strengthen its liberal arts programs and establish the Hillsdale Graduate School of Statesmanship.
www.hillsdale.edu /arnn   (522 words)

  
 John Templeton Foundation: Chair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A graduate of Worcester College, Oxford University, where he studied theology and Oriental languages, Canon Bowker did graduate work in theology at Ripon Hall in Oxford and was ordained in 1961.
He was appointed a lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty of Theology in 1965 and introduced religious studies as a subject of study at the university.
An academic fellow of the Institute of Religion in the Age of Science, he has served as president of Christian Action and AIDS, honorary president of Stauros, an institute concerned with medical ethics, vice president of the Culture and Animals Foundation, and as a consultant on various Church of England commissions.
www.templeton.org /spiritualinfo/chair   (500 words)

  
 Reporter 28/5/98: Worcester College, Oxford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The College proposes to appoint a Chaplain for a period of two years in the first instance, renewable for a further three, from 1 September 1998 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Chaplain's duties, which are not full-time, include the conduct of worship in the College Chapel, and the exercise of pastoral care towards all members of the College during Full Term, and at other times by arrangement.
Further particulars and application forms are available from the Provost's Secretary, Worcester College, Oxford, OX1 2HB (tel.
www.admin.cam.ac.uk /reporter/1997-8/weekly/5739/32.html   (157 words)

  
 ECONOS 05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Oxford and will begin on Sunday evening 10 April with a Reception and end on Tuesday afternoon
In order to take advantage of cheaper return air fares including a Saturday night accommodation may be reserved for the night of Saturday 9 April in the College.
It is hoped to provide a social programme on the afternoon of Sunday 10 April for attendees arriving early.
www.physics.ox.ac.uk /ECONOS2005   (195 words)

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