Norrington Table / en ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’ /new-college-examination-results-nineteenth-century-uninspiring-indolence-academic-preeminence ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’ Dennis A. Ahlburg Issue number (2024): 21 Notes category ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ history 19thC history 19C history Norrington Table

The fellows and students of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford moved on from drinking, gaming, and brutish pleasures to academic success, or learned to balance them much better than in the early centuries of the college’s history.  The 19th century opened with the college’s being an academic irrelevancy and closed with its being an academic powerhouse which it is to this day.

 

Joseph Nash, New College Hall (1858), watercolour on paper

 

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