Founded 1509 as The King’s Hall and College of Brasenose by William Smyth, Bishop of Lincoln and Sir Richard Sutton. Sister College – Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. Men and Women – Undergraduates 365 Postgraduates 206. Brasenose College is in the centre of Oxford situated by Radcliffe Square overlooking the main quadrangle of the Bodleian Library. It is affectionately referred to as ‘BNC’ or ‘The Mighty Nose’. As with many learned institutions the evolution from lodging houses, where academics would gather and exchange ideas, to a more formal place of education was smooth and steady. Brasenose Hall was the biggest of several lodging halls on site in 1279. An unusual bronze knocker portraying an animal mask with a protruding nose hung on the door and provided the name for the building – Brazen Nose. It is believed this knocker was removed by a bunch of disaffected students in the 1330’s, who migrated to Stamford in Lincolnshire, fixing it to their dwelling as an act of rebellion. The king ordered an end to this nonsense and the students returned, leaving the knocker in Stamford. In 1890 the house came up for sale and was promptly purchased by the college so they could retrieve the artefact. It now sits above the high table in the hall. In the beginning – Little University Hall Little University Hall stood in what is now the northeast corner of the Old Quadrangle and was purchased from a bequest, made by William of Durham, to promote education and study in 1252. In 1509 work was undertaken to construct new buildings and records show that a quarry was leased in Headington to provide the stone. This date is important as it is regarded as the founding date by the college, even though educational excellence had been promoted on ... ... middle of paper ... ...owned property for all but a few students – some second years miss out. The dining hall provides three meals a day with an evening Formal three times a week. Gerties Tea Bar provides an alternative source of snacks and is open throughout the day. In recent years Brasenose has developed a highly successful Summer Arts Festival and has a choir that has performed at St Peter’s in the Vatican. In 1971 Brasenose decided to allow women into the college and the first arrived in 1974. The first female lecturer was appointed in 1972. Famous former students include Monty Python member and much travelled television presenter Michael Palin. William Webb Ellis was a student and is (questionably) credited with creation of the rules to Rugby Union resulting in the World Cup trophy being named after him. Prime Minister David Cameron gained a first class honours degree at Brasenose.
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The story pertaining to this castle I first heard in a coffee house on Capitol Hill, in Seattle, Washington. Capitol Hill is known for being the stomping grounds of a wide variety of people. There are bohemians, hippies, homeless people, drag queens, and lots of college students due to the fact that there are five colleges in the city of Seattle alone. It is also not so full of tourists, who spend more of their time at Pikes Place Market (also said to be haunted) and the Center. I spoke to the storyteller around two in the afternoon on Friday, March 23rd during my spring break. She works at a local hospital and is finishing up medical school. She is recently married, twenty-four years old, and she grew up in West Seattle. Her mom is Ukrainian and is the principal of an elementary school.
CANDIDE By Voltaire Throughout Candide the author, Voltaire, demonstrates the character’s experiences in a cruel world and his fight to gain happiness. In the beginning, Candide expects to achieve happiness without working towards his goal and only taking the easy way out of all situations. However, by the end of the book the character realized that to achieve happiness a lot of work, compromises, and sacrifices are necessary. Candide is a person of privilege who began life in the Castle of Westphalia.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire’s novella, Candide, incorporates many themes, yet concentrates a direct assault on the ideas of Leibniz and Pope. These two well-known philosophers both held the viewpoint that the world created by God was the best of all possibilities, a world of perfect order and reason. Pope specifically felt that each human being is a part of God’s great and all knowing plan or design for the world.
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The once subjugated Saxons were required to raise a knoll that was twenty-one meters high and surrounded by a dry trench. There were wooden pikes or posts that protected the buildings on top of the knoll, while to the south and east of the knoll there were yards that were protected by banks and ditches; this all set in motion the ground work for the castle of Norwich. Edward Boardman, a Norwich born architect, completed the Norwich Castle, a medieval and fantastic defense structure in the city of Norwich. It was one of the greatest castles of its time because of its architecturally advanced structure, a symbol of military power, and a symbol of political control that was founded by the Normans. Norwich Castle, a royal fortification, was founded by William the Conqueror between 1066 and 1075.
Candide Wealth and great materialistic possession brings happiness and success to most people’s lives. Although wealth does not always bring happiness, El Dorado was one society where all it’s inhabitants lived lives full of success and happiness. In Candide, wealth proved to guarantee a person a step forward in life and some sense of freedom. Sometimes when one lives in an environment consisting of total equality, one may prefer to leave and go to a different place where they would be considered superior and everyone else inferior to them. The people of El Dorado were so wealthy that they abused the things that they possessed that others would cherish. The children proved this when they were playing at quoits covered with tattered garments of the richest brocade. It is obvious to see that they were so rich that the quoits did not have any significant meaning to them. We were able to see this when upon having to return back to school they left the quoits on the ground along with their other playthings. Candide was surprised to find out that an adult schoolmaster would do the exact same when given these quoits which consisted of gold and precious stones. Candide realized that these children must have been those of a king and he said, " The king’s children in this country must have an excellent education, since they are taught to show such a contempt for gold and precious stones." (49). Another way in which we saw that they were very wealthy was the fact that the common pebbles of their highways were large gold pieces, houses were built of silver and gold, the antechamber was incrusted with rubies and emeralds. I feel that this was not very appropriate. Just because they were wealthy does not mean that the money should be wasted in such a way as to build a highway of these expensive stones, when it could be substituted with a much less expensive material. El Dorado was a place where everyone was extremely happy and satisfied with what they possessed. This place was seen as heaven on earth. It represented a cultural wealth. Everyone here was a priest and priests were considered to be pleasant happy beings. We clearly saw that Cacambo and Candide were very satisfied with their stay here when they said, "Possibly this is that part of the globe where everything is right for there must certainly be some such place." (50). They ...
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John Baskerville, an English businessman, was born in Wolverley, Worcestershire on January 28, 1706. When he was growing up, he had admired the concept of letters being created. With his passion for letters, in 1723, he became a skilled stonecutter for tombstones, and a writing teacher. By 1726, he moved to Birmingham, England, and became a master writing teacher. In 1737, he opened a school in the Bull Ring, Birmingham. Baskerville was brilliant in picking the Bull Ring as the location because it is Birmingham’s historic market centre, which brought its reputation as “The City of a Thousand Trades.” This helped him continue teaching bookkeeping and continue his work as a stonecutter, and later lead to his success.
It has one locked door, and no window. A little light seeps in dustily between cracks in the boards, secondhand from a cobwebbed window somewhere across the cellar. In one corner of the little room a couple of mops, with stiff, clotted, foul-smelling heads, stand near a rusty bucket. The floor is dirt, a little damp to the touch, as cellar dirt usually is. The room is about three paces long and two wide: a mere broom closet or disused tool room. In the room a child is sitting (Guin).
The art institution I have chosen to write about within this paper was the Rodman Hall Art Centre located near Downtown St. Catharines. Rodman Hall, in my opinion, serves the purpose of bringing an art culture to a region that does not have much option when it comes to art institutions. Especially prior to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts opening, there was not many art centers within our region, to my knowledge. Then, once I got into applying to universities and discovering more about Brock, I came across the new and upcoming MIWSFPA and learned that Rodman Hall is under Brock’s ownership. Rodman Hall was built in 1862 by Thomas Rodman Merritt which means that this art institution is 155 years-old (“Historic Rodman Hall“). Considering the age of the building, it is very well preserved and serves a purpose of showing our heritage and culture. When entering the building, one of the first things I noticed was that the original flooring and classic detailing on the ceilings, both were stunning. The old and very large front door of Rodman Hall was beautiful and all the white snow outside definitely made it stand out.
The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament, serves as the meeting place for the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The Old Palace was a medieval building that was destroyed by fire in 1834. After the fire, a competition was held for architects to submit plans for the new building that should be in a Gothic or Elizabethan style hoping to embody the conservative values of England. A Royal commission chose Charles Barry’s designs for a Perpendicular Gothic palace. Barry’s own style was more classical than Gothic which is why Augustus Pugin’s involvement was so crucial in Barry winning the competition. Barry’s plans reflected more of his knowledge of the neo-classical style through its symmetry. Pugin was the leading authority on Gothic architecture at the time. Almost all of the remains of the Old Palace were incorporated into the new design. Their work on the Palace began in 1840 and, while most of the work was finished by 1860, the New Palace of Westminster was not complete until a decade later. One of the most identifiable features of the Palace is the Elizabeth Tower, commonly identified by its main bell, “Big Ben”. The building is also known for two main spaces; the Lord’s Chamber and the Common’s Chamber. It is well identified by its main façade which runs parallel to the River Thames. The Palace, as it stands today, has been conserved very well to best display the designs as Charles Barry and Pugin intended them to be displayed. The Palace was, and remains, the center for political life in the United Kingdom, just as it remains a major iconic landmark of London. Many articles and books have been written discussing and disputing the history and design of the New Palace of Westminster, as well as the...
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In the present modern day, and seemingly for an extensive period of time, society has tended and still does, hold a predisposed idea that a university is associated with a building and the location that it is in. What society does not realise however the fact that it is a place to study where the location does not matter because towards the end you still achieve the same degree as anyone else.