Keith Thomas
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198229742
- eISBN:
- 9780191678912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229742.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines college life at Oxford during the period from 1945 to 1970. College life during this period represents a picture of immense vitality and diversity. In addition to the ...
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This chapter examines college life at Oxford during the period from 1945 to 1970. College life during this period represents a picture of immense vitality and diversity. In addition to the differences in academic performance, the colleges also differed significantly in terms of size, social composition, and sport reputation. This was reflected in the uneven distribution of blues, dining clubs, overseas students, and bachelor fellows. This chapter also discusses the impact of the Franks Commission report on the administrative structure of the university.Less
This chapter examines college life at Oxford during the period from 1945 to 1970. College life during this period represents a picture of immense vitality and diversity. In addition to the differences in academic performance, the colleges also differed significantly in terms of size, social composition, and sport reputation. This was reflected in the uneven distribution of blues, dining clubs, overseas students, and bachelor fellows. This chapter also discusses the impact of the Franks Commission report on the administrative structure of the university.
Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691145372
- eISBN:
- 9781400844876
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691145372.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This chapter examines the institutional dynamics—that is, the organizational arrangements, cultural ideas, and practices in place at Eastern Elite University and Western Flagship University—to see ...
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This chapter examines the institutional dynamics—that is, the organizational arrangements, cultural ideas, and practices in place at Eastern Elite University and Western Flagship University—to see how they affect student conservatism at both campuses. More specifically, it explores what conservative students say they find when they arrive on the Western Public and Eastern Elite campuses—and the degree to which students comment on their university's politics. The chapter first considers each university's reputation in the higher education sector and how a school's standing in the larger field of universities might influence students' perceptions of their experiences as conservatives in college. It then discusses extracurricular aspects of college life, focusing on the social and residential scene at each school, as well as academics. In particular, it analyzes how several aspects of scholastic life work on the two campuses and how they affect students' experiences as conservatives.Less
This chapter examines the institutional dynamics—that is, the organizational arrangements, cultural ideas, and practices in place at Eastern Elite University and Western Flagship University—to see how they affect student conservatism at both campuses. More specifically, it explores what conservative students say they find when they arrive on the Western Public and Eastern Elite campuses—and the degree to which students comment on their university's politics. The chapter first considers each university's reputation in the higher education sector and how a school's standing in the larger field of universities might influence students' perceptions of their experiences as conservatives in college. It then discusses extracurricular aspects of college life, focusing on the social and residential scene at each school, as well as academics. In particular, it analyzes how several aspects of scholastic life work on the two campuses and how they affect students' experiences as conservatives.
Brian Harrison
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198229742
- eISBN:
- 9780191678912
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198229742.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines college life at the University of Oxford during the period from 1918 to 1939. During this period, Oxford's collegiate structure prevailed over criticisms and adapted itself. The ...
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This chapter examines college life at the University of Oxford during the period from 1918 to 1939. During this period, Oxford's collegiate structure prevailed over criticisms and adapted itself. The containment of the criticisms began with the Asquith Commission and aided the international reaction against German patterns of academic organization and the rapid post-war run-down in reforming enthusiasm in the nation as a whole. Between the wars, it was largely the colleges that controlled Oxford's administrative structure.Less
This chapter examines college life at the University of Oxford during the period from 1918 to 1939. During this period, Oxford's collegiate structure prevailed over criticisms and adapted itself. The containment of the criticisms began with the Asquith Commission and aided the international reaction against German patterns of academic organization and the rapid post-war run-down in reforming enthusiasm in the nation as a whole. Between the wars, it was largely the colleges that controlled Oxford's administrative structure.
Peter Levine
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195085556
- eISBN:
- 9780199854042
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195085556.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines the college life and college sport participation of Jewish Americans in the U.S. prior to World War II. Jewish college students who participated in intercollegiate athletics ...
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This chapter examines the college life and college sport participation of Jewish Americans in the U.S. prior to World War II. Jewish college students who participated in intercollegiate athletics played a special role in this college experience by serving a spectrum of contradictory interest. The accomplishments of these athletes gave hope to the Jewish people that it was possible for them achieve real success without abandoning or denying ethnic attachments.Less
This chapter examines the college life and college sport participation of Jewish Americans in the U.S. prior to World War II. Jewish college students who participated in intercollegiate athletics played a special role in this college experience by serving a spectrum of contradictory interest. The accomplishments of these athletes gave hope to the Jewish people that it was possible for them achieve real success without abandoning or denying ethnic attachments.
John R. Elliott Jr.
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199510146
- eISBN:
- 9780191700958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199510146.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
Unlike music, drama never had an official position in the Oxford curriculum, as it was not considered to have a sufficiently philosophical dimension. But if it lacked a faculty it did not lack ...
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Unlike music, drama never had an official position in the Oxford curriculum, as it was not considered to have a sufficiently philosophical dimension. But if it lacked a faculty it did not lack students. From the 1540s on, drama played an extensive, authorized, role both in college life and in the public life of Oxford. This role was sometimes recreational, sometimes ceremonial, and sometimes quasi-curricular. We know of two instances in which arts students were required to write a play in order to supplicate for their BA. Less trifling was the expenditure by the dean and chapter of Christ Church from 1554 onwards for the annual production of two comedies and two tragedies, one of each pair in Latin and the other in Greek, payments regularly recorded in the treasurer's accounts for the next sixty years. Similar allowances of college funds in support of plays, by order of the governing body, are recorded at Magdalen College in 1580 and St John's College in 1582.Less
Unlike music, drama never had an official position in the Oxford curriculum, as it was not considered to have a sufficiently philosophical dimension. But if it lacked a faculty it did not lack students. From the 1540s on, drama played an extensive, authorized, role both in college life and in the public life of Oxford. This role was sometimes recreational, sometimes ceremonial, and sometimes quasi-curricular. We know of two instances in which arts students were required to write a play in order to supplicate for their BA. Less trifling was the expenditure by the dean and chapter of Christ Church from 1554 onwards for the annual production of two comedies and two tragedies, one of each pair in Latin and the other in Greek, payments regularly recorded in the treasurer's accounts for the next sixty years. Similar allowances of college funds in support of plays, by order of the governing body, are recorded at Magdalen College in 1580 and St John's College in 1582.
Elisa Tamarkin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226789446
- eISBN:
- 9780226789439
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226789439.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter considers the importance of Anglophilia to college life in the nineteenth century and to the academic mystique that it sustains. Why has intellectual and university culture historically ...
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This chapter considers the importance of Anglophilia to college life in the nineteenth century and to the academic mystique that it sustains. Why has intellectual and university culture historically assumed pretensions toward Britain? Where do the English accents come from? Figures such as George Ticknor, Edward T. Channing, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow shaped a philosophy of intellectualism in America that patterns not only the content and pedagogic practices of higher education but also the daily routines and social pleasures of academic life.Less
This chapter considers the importance of Anglophilia to college life in the nineteenth century and to the academic mystique that it sustains. Why has intellectual and university culture historically assumed pretensions toward Britain? Where do the English accents come from? Figures such as George Ticknor, Edward T. Channing, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow shaped a philosophy of intellectualism in America that patterns not only the content and pedagogic practices of higher education but also the daily routines and social pleasures of academic life.
Nicola Lacey
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199202775
- eISBN:
- 9780191705953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199202775.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter details H. L. A. Hart's experiences as an Oxford scholar. Herbert Hart arrived at New College to take up his scholarship to read for the Literae Humaniores degree — a mixture of Greek, ...
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This chapter details H. L. A. Hart's experiences as an Oxford scholar. Herbert Hart arrived at New College to take up his scholarship to read for the Literae Humaniores degree — a mixture of Greek, Latin, ancient history, and philosophy — in October 1926. Herbert was in many ways well-equipped for his entry into the social and educational hierarchy of Oxford. Though reserved in manner, he was vigorous in discussion. His extraordinary erudition and his familiarity with some of the most beautiful architectural sights of Europe gave him a conversational range and, at least on the surface, a social confidence unusual in someone of his age and background. Both the aesthetic and the intellectual environments which awaited him at New College were to shape his life in vivid and decisive ways.Less
This chapter details H. L. A. Hart's experiences as an Oxford scholar. Herbert Hart arrived at New College to take up his scholarship to read for the Literae Humaniores degree — a mixture of Greek, Latin, ancient history, and philosophy — in October 1926. Herbert was in many ways well-equipped for his entry into the social and educational hierarchy of Oxford. Though reserved in manner, he was vigorous in discussion. His extraordinary erudition and his familiarity with some of the most beautiful architectural sights of Europe gave him a conversational range and, at least on the surface, a social confidence unusual in someone of his age and background. Both the aesthetic and the intellectual environments which awaited him at New College were to shape his life in vivid and decisive ways.
Ja’Dell Davis
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501746888
- eISBN:
- 9781501746895
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501746888.003.0005
- Subject:
- Education, Higher and Further Education
This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on ...
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This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on experiences of intellectual invalidation. Black women were the most likely to report these alienating campus experiences, and many responded with identity-protection coping strategies that led them to disconnect from campus life or limit their engagement to activities that affirmed their gendered racial-ethnic identity. This chapter illustrates the benefits and costs of certain Black interviewees' conscious decisions to disconnect from general college life. One approach was blanket rejection, while another involved severely narrowing the range of spaces and people that incorporated into the college experience. A third and more extreme form of disconnecting highlights the role that counterspaces play in making the disconnection from college life sustainable.Less
This chapter provides an intersectional perspective on gendered racial-ethnic identities (a gender identity that is racialized and a racial-ethnic identity that is gendered), with a focus on experiences of intellectual invalidation. Black women were the most likely to report these alienating campus experiences, and many responded with identity-protection coping strategies that led them to disconnect from campus life or limit their engagement to activities that affirmed their gendered racial-ethnic identity. This chapter illustrates the benefits and costs of certain Black interviewees' conscious decisions to disconnect from general college life. One approach was blanket rejection, while another involved severely narrowing the range of spaces and people that incorporated into the college experience. A third and more extreme form of disconnecting highlights the role that counterspaces play in making the disconnection from college life sustainable.
Gordon Braxton
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197571675
- eISBN:
- 9780197571705
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197571675.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
Gordon Braxton was in his third year of college before anybody bothered to speak to him about sexual violence, this despite the fact that he already knew friends and family members who had survived a ...
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Gordon Braxton was in his third year of college before anybody bothered to speak to him about sexual violence, this despite the fact that he already knew friends and family members who had survived a sexual assault. Gordon now knows that he was not alone, as his talks with boys are often the first and only opportunities that they have to discuss their views on sexual violence and what role they might play in preventing it. These isolated conversations are not enough to change an entire culture. This book supports the training of a rising generation by providing commentary from an experienced educator, an overview of existing research and preventive techniques, and insight into young men’s perspectives on violence. The resultant crash course on violence prevention is the first to focus on Black boys and to be written by a Black male author. The most important lesson that boys have to learn is that they have an essential role to play in preventing sexual violence. So many of them accept this violence as beyond their control when they could be valuable agents of change. More and more parents and mentors of boys are coming to address sexual violence as a cultural problem rather than representing the activities of isolated social deviants. Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture stands to help America as it comes to the realization that sexual violence can be prevented and that a rising generation of boys will play a part in realizing a nonviolent future.Less
Gordon Braxton was in his third year of college before anybody bothered to speak to him about sexual violence, this despite the fact that he already knew friends and family members who had survived a sexual assault. Gordon now knows that he was not alone, as his talks with boys are often the first and only opportunities that they have to discuss their views on sexual violence and what role they might play in preventing it. These isolated conversations are not enough to change an entire culture. This book supports the training of a rising generation by providing commentary from an experienced educator, an overview of existing research and preventive techniques, and insight into young men’s perspectives on violence. The resultant crash course on violence prevention is the first to focus on Black boys and to be written by a Black male author. The most important lesson that boys have to learn is that they have an essential role to play in preventing sexual violence. So many of them accept this violence as beyond their control when they could be valuable agents of change. More and more parents and mentors of boys are coming to address sexual violence as a cultural problem rather than representing the activities of isolated social deviants. Empowering Black Boys to Challenge Rape Culture stands to help America as it comes to the realization that sexual violence can be prevented and that a rising generation of boys will play a part in realizing a nonviolent future.
Jonathon N. Cummings, John B. Lee, and Robert Kraut
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195312805
- eISBN:
- 9780199847730
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195312805.003.0018
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter examines the use of the Internet by young people to maintain social ties after they move from high school to college. It finds that when young adults move away from home to go to ...
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This chapter examines the use of the Internet by young people to maintain social ties after they move from high school to college. It finds that when young adults move away from home to go to college, technology-mediated communication retards the natural decline in social relationships which young adults often experience as a result of the move. However, this effect varies by type of technology. Even though speaking by phone with a partner is a much stronger predictor of a close personal relationship than Internet-based communication, the latter is most likely to help young people maintain relationships. However, the chapter argues that this effect of communication on psychological closeness does not reflect intrinsic properties of the communication media but instead the marketing and regulatory decisions in the United States which lower the cost of Internet communications.Less
This chapter examines the use of the Internet by young people to maintain social ties after they move from high school to college. It finds that when young adults move away from home to go to college, technology-mediated communication retards the natural decline in social relationships which young adults often experience as a result of the move. However, this effect varies by type of technology. Even though speaking by phone with a partner is a much stronger predictor of a close personal relationship than Internet-based communication, the latter is most likely to help young people maintain relationships. However, the chapter argues that this effect of communication on psychological closeness does not reflect intrinsic properties of the communication media but instead the marketing and regulatory decisions in the United States which lower the cost of Internet communications.
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley and Sunil Sharma
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198068334
- eISBN:
- 9780199080441
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198068334.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
Atiya Fyzee’s travelogue provides a glimpse not only of grand public gatherings and prestigious social engagements, but also of the so-called everyday: a world that is routine and even mundane. A ...
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Atiya Fyzee’s travelogue provides a glimpse not only of grand public gatherings and prestigious social engagements, but also of the so-called everyday: a world that is routine and even mundane. A form of informal ethnography, Atiya’s travelogue contains accounts of food and cooking in Britain during the Edwardian period, along with gardening, the weather, religion, leisure, and travel. Atiya also wrote about the day-to-day realities of friendships, college life, and what it meant in practical terms to study at a women’s teacher training college of the period. She was particularly impressed by the English servants when compared to those back in her native India.Less
Atiya Fyzee’s travelogue provides a glimpse not only of grand public gatherings and prestigious social engagements, but also of the so-called everyday: a world that is routine and even mundane. A form of informal ethnography, Atiya’s travelogue contains accounts of food and cooking in Britain during the Edwardian period, along with gardening, the weather, religion, leisure, and travel. Atiya also wrote about the day-to-day realities of friendships, college life, and what it meant in practical terms to study at a women’s teacher training college of the period. She was particularly impressed by the English servants when compared to those back in her native India.
John Meurig Thomas
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- March 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198854500
- eISBN:
- 9780191888793
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198854500.003.0009
- Subject:
- Physics, Crystallography: Physics, Soft Matter / Biological Physics
How does university life add depth and quality and also opportunity to professional research? This is the key question discussed in this chapter. In answering it, the pre-eminent work of Aaron Klug ...
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How does university life add depth and quality and also opportunity to professional research? This is the key question discussed in this chapter. In answering it, the pre-eminent work of Aaron Klug and his cross-fertilizing interactions with his colleagues in the Cambridge College Peterhouse are analysed. Klug, who won the Chemistry Nobel Prize outright, made many revolutionary discoveries in structural molecular biology, especially the determination of the structure of viruses. He also devised new techniques in electron microscopy that are now of great importance in present-day research in molecular biology. Klug’s indebtedness to colleagues of Peterhouse, including Kendrew and Perutz, and his early mentor at the Cavendish Laboratory Lawrence Bragg, as well as a brief account of the current research pursued by members of Peterhouse and the famous confrontation in 1952 between Erwin Chargaff and Crick and Watson are also described.Less
How does university life add depth and quality and also opportunity to professional research? This is the key question discussed in this chapter. In answering it, the pre-eminent work of Aaron Klug and his cross-fertilizing interactions with his colleagues in the Cambridge College Peterhouse are analysed. Klug, who won the Chemistry Nobel Prize outright, made many revolutionary discoveries in structural molecular biology, especially the determination of the structure of viruses. He also devised new techniques in electron microscopy that are now of great importance in present-day research in molecular biology. Klug’s indebtedness to colleagues of Peterhouse, including Kendrew and Perutz, and his early mentor at the Cavendish Laboratory Lawrence Bragg, as well as a brief account of the current research pursued by members of Peterhouse and the famous confrontation in 1952 between Erwin Chargaff and Crick and Watson are also described.
Gordon Braxton
- Published in print:
- 2022
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197571675
- eISBN:
- 9780197571705
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197571675.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations
We don’t talk to boys about sexual violence with the same intensity and regularity that we talk to girls. It’s no wonder, then, that many grow into men with limited understandings of how to ensure ...
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We don’t talk to boys about sexual violence with the same intensity and regularity that we talk to girls. It’s no wonder, then, that many grow into men with limited understandings of how to ensure the safety of themselves and their partners. Chapter 7 provides a deeper dive into sexual misconduct policies. It identifies common misunderstandings that boys have of policies and provides some practical tips on how to correct those deficiencies. Particular emphasis is placed on the common understanding that alcohol usage absolves one from fault. The chapter also provides tips on how boys can better navigate a sexual arena where they perceive themselves to have a lot of risk. Chief among these tips is the suggestion that boys are free to hold themselves to standards that exceed what laws and policies expect of them.Less
We don’t talk to boys about sexual violence with the same intensity and regularity that we talk to girls. It’s no wonder, then, that many grow into men with limited understandings of how to ensure the safety of themselves and their partners. Chapter 7 provides a deeper dive into sexual misconduct policies. It identifies common misunderstandings that boys have of policies and provides some practical tips on how to correct those deficiencies. Particular emphasis is placed on the common understanding that alcohol usage absolves one from fault. The chapter also provides tips on how boys can better navigate a sexual arena where they perceive themselves to have a lot of risk. Chief among these tips is the suggestion that boys are free to hold themselves to standards that exceed what laws and policies expect of them.