10 Things You Didn’t Know About the University of Oxford
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About the University of Oxford
Elif Erdal
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As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, the University of Oxford is famous across the globe.
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The University has a very colourful history, as well as being is home to some of the weirdest and most wonderful traditions imaginable.
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Women’s rights
The first colleges were built in the 13th century, but it wasn’t until 1871 – 600 years later – that women were admitted to the university.
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Although women were allowed to take exams by 1884, they weren’t awarded degrees until 1920, and it was only in 1974 when finally the last of the all-male colleges opened their doors to women.
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Beer and Sympathy
38 colleges make up the University of Oxford, and one of the fiercest rivalries exists between Lincoln College and Brasenose College.
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At lunchtime on Ascension Day the connecting door between Brasenose and Lincoln Colleges is opened and members of Brasenose are entitled to be entertained to free beer by Lincoln.
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1) that a Brasenose man was pursued by a town mob and was murdered at the gates of Lincoln because the Lincoln students refused to aid him by opening them
(2) that a Lincoln man killed a Brasenose man in a duel.
