oxford

     

Coorinates: 51°45′7, N°1′15

Trivia about oxford

  • In the 1830s settlers gave this city its name in the hope of having the University of Mississippi placed there
  • It's the place in England where the oxen forded the river Thames
  • This city, first mentioned in 912, is the seat of Britain's oldest university, developed in the 1100s
  • This university 50 miles west of London dates back to the 12th century
  • In 1762 Ben Franklin was given an honorary degree by this English university
  • It's the oldest
  • This university's Bodleian Library is entitled to free copies of all books printed in England
  • A type of shoe or cloth, or where a Rhodes scholarship will get you
  • Merton College was one of the first entities that become this famous British university
  • A Haydn symphony bears the name of this British university that gave Haydn an honorary degree
  • Founded in 1878, Lady Margaret Hall is this European university's oldest women's college
  • Big Ben hangs over Parliament & a rival, Great Tom, hangs over Christ Church College at this university
  • Women students were permitted at this university for the first time on April 29, 1884
  • Balliol College & Merton College are part of this university
  • The sequel to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is called "Tom Brown at" this university
  • Entitled to free copies of all books printed in Britain, the Bodleian Library is the main library of this university
  • "O ye spires of" this university town!..."your presence overpowers the soberness of reason"
  • Blackwell's, in this British university city since 1870, has a10,000-square-foot room of books
  • With about 100 awarded yearly, Rhodes Scholarships enable students to study at this British university
  • This university's Christ Church College was opened by Cardinal Wolsey in 1525
  • C.S. Lewis hosted the Inklings, a discussion group, in his rooms at this university's Magdalen College
  • The Radcliffe Camera, a domed building at this British university, is a reading room for the Bodleian Library
  • In 2009 Darwin's great-great-granddaughter Ruth Padel became this univ.'s first female professor of poetry
  • This British university is the oldest institute of higher learning in the English-speaking world
  • Visits to its colleges, like Christ Church & Merton, are restricted--scholars at work!
  • When not in Africa, Rhodes intermittently attended this British university where Rhodes scholars go today
  • Lawrence of Arabia earned first-class honors in history at this university's Jesus College
  • It's the city where you'll find Britain's oldest university
  • It's the university where Tolkien studied & later taught languages & literature
  • Locke was educated at this University's Christ Church College & later lectured in Greek, rhetoric & philosophy there
  • Its main library is the Bodleian
  • The students who founded this univ.'s Dramatic Society in 1885 included a future Archbishop of Canterbury
  • During part of the English Civil War, Charles' main residence was Christ Church College at this university
  • (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Mississippi.)I'm at Rowan Oak, William Faulkner's home of 32 years in this town in Mississippi
  • In 1598 Thomas Bodley began to rebuild the library at this university; it reopened in 1602
  • "The Home of 'Ole Miss'"
  • A tavern dispute sparked the 3-day St. Scholastica Riot, which killed 60 of this English university's students in 1355
  • The U. of Miami is in Coral Gables, Fla.; Miami U. is in this Ohio city that shares its name with a famous British school
  • The Christchurch Beagles representing one of the colleges of this English university are ready for a hunt
  • Its St. Hilda's College is women's only; all others, including All Souls & Magdalen, are coeducational
  • Universities founded in the 12th & 19th centuries are in cities named this in England & Mississippi