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THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD:
THEIR HISTORY AND TRADITIONS.
XXI CHAPTERS
CONTRIBUTED BY MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGES.
EDITED BY
ANDREW CLARK, M.A.,
FELLOW OF LINCOLN COLLEGE, OXFORD.
Methuen & Co.,
18, BURY STREET, LONDON, W.C.
1891.
[All rights reserved.]
Richard Clay & Sons, Limited,
London & Bungay.
The history of any one of the older Colleges ofOxford extends over a period of time and embracesa variety of interests more than sufficient for a volume.The constitutional changes which it has experiencedin the six, or four, or two centuries of its existencehave been neither few nor slight. The Society livingwithin its walls has reflected from age to age thesocial, religious, and intellectual conditions of thenation at large. Its many passing generations ofteachers and students have left behind them a wealthof traditions honourable or the reverse. Yet it seemsnot impossible to combine in one volume a series ofCollege histories. What happened in one Collegehappened to some extent in all; and if, therefore,certain periods or subjects which are fully dealt within one College are omitted in others, a single volumeought to be sufficient, not merely to narrate the salientfeatures of the history of each individual College, butalso to give an intelligible picture of College lifegenerally at successive periods of time.
This is what the present volume seeks to do. Brasenoseand Hertford chapters give a hint of the multiplicityof halls for Seculars out of which the Collegesgrew; in Trinity and Worcester chapters we have aglimpse of the houses for Regulars which for a whilemated the Colleges, but disappeared at the Reformation.In Queen’s College, early social conditions are described;[vi]in New College, early studies. Balliol College givesprominence to the Renaissance movement; CorpusChristi to the consequent changes in studies. InMagdalen College we see the divisions and fluctuationsof opinions which followed the Reformation; in S.John’s, the golden age of the early Stuarts; in Merton,the dissensions of t