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1914

History Sc Institution of the United )Arthur Twining Hadley........ Yale Univ..
States of America (Lectureron the)... j
Music .................... SirWalt. ParrattM.V.O.,M.A.,D.Mus Magdalen..
,, (Choragus) ............ Hugh Percy Allen D.Mus....... New ...
1909
Poetry ..... ............. Thos.HerbertWarren M.A.,hon. D.C.L Magdalen..
1911
.......... Selwyn Image M.A.......... New ...
Fine Art (Slade)
1910
Drawing (Ruskin Master) ....... A. Macdonald hon. M.A........ Worcester..
1871
PoliticalEconomy (Drummond) ... Frances Ysidro Edgeworth M.A .. All Souls ..
1890
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rood : in the eastern chapel on the south side, near the
Wycliffe Hall, 54 Banbury road, St. Giles\
Is a building of brick in a semi-Byzantine style, altar, is a stone image of the Virgin and Child, highly
members of the University are
erected in 1877-8 and considerably enlarged in 1881. decorated:to otnhley se
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in 1913. This institution, founded in 1877, is designed
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as a place of study for graduates who feel the need f the library; the Re
v. John Carter M.A. Rev. Walter
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for a quiet home whilst attending divinity lectures, George Harold Fendick
M.A. resident clergy.
and has the general approval of the Archbishop of Can­
Mansfield College.
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course of study is mainly Biblical, special attention
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dates for holy orders.” The study of Hebrew is en­ tees and council of Spring Hill College, Birmingham,
couraged and introductory lectures are given on who resolved, with the consent and approval of the
Christian Evidences, the Prayer Book and Pastoral Charity Commissioners, to transfer the college to Ox­
work, with exercises in reading and preaching. The ford, the name it now bears being that of the family
Hall is conducted on the principles set forth in the which gave the original endowments. The college build­
Vlth Article of the Church of England; the reverent ings, erected in 1887-9, at a cost of about £40,000,
and intelligent study of Scripture, as a whole, being occupy a portion of the old cricket ground of Merton
regarded as the basis of all sound doctrine and as a College, to the east of Wadham gardens and south of
preservative against narrowness of thought and exclu­ the new parks, and are approached by a main road
siveness of sympathy. Students may be either resident leading from Holywell street: the buildings are ar­
or non-resident: each resident student has two rooms, ranged so as to form three sides of a quadrangle, open
but all meals are in common. Those who wish to stay towards the south, the style adopted being English
up during part of the vacation can do so. There are Gothic of the later 14th century, from designs by Mr.
two exhibitions, reducing the cost of residence nearly a Basil Champneys B.A. architect, of London. The chapel,
half, available for men who could not otherwise give an which forms the eastern wing, is arranged as a large
additional year to study. The Hall is under the manage­ parallelogram of six bays, 84 feet long by 40 wide, with
ment of a council, and is now (1915) temporarily closed. narrow side aisles and a waggon roof carried on stone
at the north-western angle is a lofty transept
Principal, Rev. Harry George Grey M.A. Wadham arches:
of two storeys, with octagonal battlemented turret,
College.
a vestry with organ chamber above :in 1890two
Vice-Principal, Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin M.A. forming
stained windows, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Cambridge.
Haworth, of Bowdon, were placed at the south end of
St. Stephen's House, 5 Parks road,
the chapel and an oak scre-en erected to form an anteOpened in October, 1876, as a place of residence and chapel: within the chapel, on either side, are ranged
training for candidates for holy orders and especially for statues of SS. Augustine and Athanasius, Wycliffe,
such as intend to engage in foreign mission work, who Calvin, and various eminent Nonconformist divines;
are either (a) graduates of this or some other Uni­ and on the exterior are figures of Origen and Bunyan:
versity preparing for holy orders, whether at home or there are 450 sittings, exclusive of choir seats. The
abroad, or (b) undergraduates, who, purposing to take central portion of the buildings includes the dining hall,
holy orders, may enter at any period of their university common room, curators’, professors’ and small lecture
course. Arrangements can be made for the reception of rooms: the dining hall, which adjoins the chapel, is41
missionaries on leave of absence and not necessarily feet long by 20 wide and has an open oak roof:next it,
members of the University. A chapel is attached to in the centre of the principal block, rises a massive
the house, in which services are held daily. The terms square tower or gate house, with a projecting oriel
are the same as those of the University. Since the and a statue of Milton and an embattled turret at the
opening of the house about 390 students have been in south-east angle, rising above the plain parapet: the
residence. The institution is under the patronage of western wing comprises the library, 76 by 33 feet, also
the Lord Bishop of the Diocese and is managed by a with a fine oak roof, and the larger lecture rooms, and
committee of fifteen persons, chiefly clergy.
further to the west is the principal’s house with a gar­
Principal, Rev. George H. Bown M.A. Trinity College. den attached: there are also visitors’ rooms, cloak
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The Pusey Library, 61 St. Giles’street,
Was founded in 1884 by subscription in memory of lodge, the gift of Lord Winterstoke, was built in 190a
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the entrance gate. In laying out the buildings pro­
Dr. Edward Bouverie Pusey, canon of Christ Church
and Regius Professor of Hebrew. It contains Dr. vision has been made for future extension, should it
Pusey’s private library, consisting chiefly of Biblical, become necessary: the college is purely theological and
Patristic and Hebraic literature, with other books non-residential, but all itsstudents, even w h e n graduates
contributed by friends of the institution. The books of other universities, must become members of the
may be used in the house by members of the University University of Oxford : attached to the college are theo­
on application to the librarians. The chapel, erected in logical scholarships of the annual value of £5°» tfnab®
19x4, occupies the site of the houses and gardens for three years: there are also art scholarships 0
formerly known as Nos. 57, 58 and 59 St. Giles: it various values, up to £60, and also tenable for thre
is a stone building, designed in the style of the closing years.
years of the 14th century, and consists of two parts, Principal, Rev. William Boothby Selbie M .A .O x o n .,
a smaller eastern chapel and a larger western chapel:
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there is a tower 70 feet high: inside the height of Tutors, Rev. J. Yernon Bartlet M.A., D.D. (Mac!ken ^
the chapel at the centre is 40 feet: a prominent Professor of Church History and Patristics), ■
George Buchanan Gray D.Litt.Oxon, D.D. (HeJ
feature is the vaulted roof, the bosses of which are
and Old Testament Theology), Rev. Janies Mo •
in an ordered series representing, in the western chapel,
M.A.,
D.Litt. (Yates Professor of New Testamen
the major and minor prophets, the gifts of the Spirit,
Exegesis), Cecil John Cadoux B.A. (Hebrew), ■
the theological virtues and St. John the Baptist, and
Allan Gaunt M.A. (New Testament), Bernard
in the eastern chapel, the four evangelists, the apostles
Donald M.A. (Elocution) and Wilfred Scott
who were not evangelists, the fruits of the Spirit, the
choirs of the angels and the glory of God: the two
M.A. (Philosophy).
chapels are divided by a stone screen, pierced on each Bursar, Norman H. Smith M.A.