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ARTICLES RELATED TO Oxford - Organisation | | | |  Oxford - Organisation: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - Christ Church references"The wind had dropped. There was even a glimpse of the moon riding behind the clouds. And now, a solemn and plangent token of Oxford's perpetuity, the first stroke of Great Tom sounded." Chapter 21, Zuleika Dobson (1922), Max Beerbohm
"I must say my thoughts wandered, but I kept turning the pages and watching the light fade, which in Peckwater, my dear, is quite an experience -- as darkness falls the stone seems positively to decay under one's eyes. I was reminded of some of those leprous facades in the vieux port at Mar ...
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| | | | Oxford - Organisation: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - Grace Before formal Hall each evening, the following Latin grace is recited by a scholar of the House:
Nōs miserī hominēs et egēnī, prō cibīs quōs nōbis ad corporis subsidium benignē es largītus, tibi, Deus omnipotēns, Pater cælestis, grātiās reverenter agimus; simul obsecrantēs, ut iīs sobriē, modestē atque grātē ūtāmur.
Per Iēsum Christum Dominum nostrum.
The remaining words of the full grace replace Per ...
See also:Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford - Organisation, Christ Church, Oxford - Student life, Christ Church, Oxford - History, Christ Church, Oxford - Buildings, Christ Church, Oxford - Grace, Christ Church, Oxford - Deans of Christ Church, Christ Church, Oxford - Notable members, Christ Church, Oxford - Christ Church references, Christ Church, Oxford - Reference Read more here: » Christ Church, Oxford: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - Grace |
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| | | | Oxford - Organisation: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - History In 1525, at the height of his power, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York, suppressed the Abbey of St Frideswide in Oxford and founded Cardinal College on its lands. He planned the establishment on a magnificent scale, but fell from grace in 1529, before the college was completed.
In 1531 the college was itself suppressed, and refounded in 1532 as King Henry VIII's College by Henry VIII, to whom Wolsey's property had escheated. Then in 1546 the King, who had broken from the Church of ...
See also:Christ Church, Oxford, Christ Church, Oxford - Organisation, Christ Church, Oxford - Student life, Christ Church, Oxford - History, Christ Church, Oxford - Buildings, Christ Church, Oxford - Grace, Christ Church, Oxford - Deans of Christ Church, Christ Church, Oxford - Notable members, Christ Church, Oxford - Christ Church references, Christ Church, Oxford - Reference Read more here: » Christ Church, Oxford: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - History |
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| | | | Oxford - Organisation: Encyclopedia II - Christ Church, Oxford - Student life As well as rooms for accommodation, the buildings of Christ Church include the cathedral (which also acts as the college chapel), a great hall, two libraries, two bars, and common rooms for dons, graduates and undergraduates. There are also gardens and a neighbouring sportsground and boat-house.
Accommodation is provided for all undergraduates, and for some graduates, although some accommodation is off-site. Accommodation is generally spacious with most rooms equipped with sinks and fridges. Many undergraduate rooms comprise 'sets' of ...
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