Founded 1347 by Marie de St Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Named Marie Valence Hall changed name to Pembroke Hall some time before 1856. Sister College – Queen’s College Oxford. Men and Women – Undergraduates 430 Postgraduates 250.
When Pembroke was originally established, on Christmas Eve 1347, it had a preference for gifted students born in France and disapproved strongly of excessive drinking and the frequenting of disreputable houses. It was founded by Marie de St Pol, widow of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, under license granted by Edward III. The institution was originally known as the Hall of Valence Mary, later renamed Pembroke Hall and then became Pembroke College in 1856.
One of the universities top performers
Today Pembroke is just as focused on high academic achievement, placing great importance on providing an environment that fosters success. Students not only enjoy intellectual challenges, but also encouraged to engage in the extra curricular activities such as music, sport and drama. The college has a consistent track record of being one of the university’s top performers. Applications are now en-couraged from all quarters with an intake of 57% from state schools and a roughly even gender divide, women being first admitted in 1983. There are 250 postgraduates and 430 undergraduates.
Youngest ever British prime minister, William Pitt the Younger, studied at Pembroke and resided until elected as an MP in 1780, eventually becoming PM in 1783. Pembroke Women’s College at Brown University U.S.A. was named after the Cambridge establishment.
Pembroke is the third oldest in the university and one of the wealthiest, occupying a large and architecturally varied site, just a 5-minute walk from the market square. It has trad...
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...library, a new hall, a new masters lodge and the residential block known as the Red Building in neo-Gothic. George Gilbert Scott, the younger, added the hybrid free-form classical New Court in the 1880’s, complete with angels, grotesques and curly Dutch gables above windows. The red-brick Tudor style Pitt building, finished in 1907, is by Trinity educated W.D. Caroe described as a ‘...consummate master of building according to medieval precedent’. The crisp modern buildings, stripped of detail, standing in the southeast corner with a hint of classical form and volume is Foundress Court, completed in 1997.
Accommodation varies according to cost and is provided for all first years on site, with subsequent years housed in offsite rooms. The college has five times as many applicants as places and offers successful students a supportive no-nonsense approach to education.
Charles attended Brentwood School in Essex which is father was headmaster of but in 1894 Charles changed schools to Clifton College before winning a scholarship to Hertford College in Oxford in 1898.
When he graduated from Dartmouth College in 1925 after that he attended Lincoln College at Oxford.
John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland on January 11, 1815. His family immigrated to Canada (Kingston, Ontario) in 1820, Macdonald was five years old at the time. In 1829 Macdonald ended his schooling, his parents could not afford to send him to university. Macdonald would later say that if he had went to university he would have ended up in literature, not politics. (Waite, John, 7-10)
During his teens, Roger Williams came to the attention of Sir Edward Coke, a brilliant lawyer and one-time Chief Justice of England, through whose influence he was enrolled at Sutton's Hospital, a part of Charter House, a school in London. He next entered Pembroke College at Cambridge University from which he graduated in 1627. All of the literature currently available at Pembroke to prospective students mentions Roger Williams, his part in the Reformation, and his founding of the Colony of Rhode Island. At Pembroke, he was one of eight granted scholarships based on excellence in Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Pembroke College in Providence, once the women's college of Brown University, was named after Pembroke at Cambridge in honor of Roger Williams.
area which had reopened its doors in 1959 (the university had beeen founded in 1677,
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lawns at Exeter. But such an institution is not always peachy and the students aren’t
Pitt’s father observed how his son had excelled, and decided the time had come for young William to have a chance to go even farther with his studies. Therefore in 1773, at the age of fourteen, William Pitt the Younger was set to attend school in Pembroke Hall at Cambridge University. He graduated with a Master’s degree, without examination, in 1776.
This shift in university life has caused the emergence of a more focused and hard-working student body. There are those from past generations who will look at the happenings of colleges today and ridicule this change. And even after moving through the nostalgic haze that surrounds the memories of the past, the differences can still be seen, but it should be known that today's students are just adapting to the system that has already been established for them. This systematic change is to be expected. Considering that the world is not the same as it was in the 1960s, why would we assume that an institution would be exactly the same as it was
He was at Oxford in about 1345, when a series of illustrious names was adding glory to the fame of the university, such as those of Roger Bacon, Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Bradwardine, William of Occam, and Richard Fitzralph. Wycliff owed much to Occam. He showed an interest in natural science and mathematics, but applied himself to the study of theology, ecclesiastical law, and philosophy. Even Wycliff’s opponents acknowledged the keenness of his dialectic. Wycliff’s writings prove that he was well grounded in Roman and English law, as well as in native history. A family whose seat was in the neighborhood of Wycliff's home, Bernard Castle, founded Balliol College, Oxford to which Wycliffe belonged, first as scholar, then as master. He attained the headship no later than 1360. When he was presented by the college (1361) with the parish of Fylingham in Lincolnshire, he had to give up the leadership of Balliol, though he could continue to live at Oxford. His university career followed the usual course. While as baccalaureate he busied himself with natural science and mathematics, as master he had the right to read in philosophy. More significant was his interest in Bible study, which he pursued after becoming bachelor in theology. His performance led Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury, to place him at the head of Canterbury Hall in 1365. Between 1366 and 1372 he became a doctor of theology. In 1368 he gave up his living at Fylingham and took over the rectory of Ludgershall in Buckinghamshire, not far from Oxford, which enabled him to retain his connection with the university.
John Wycliffe went to Oxford University in 1346 at the age of 16 with the hopes
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Henry Cavendish began attendance to the University of Cambridge in St. Pete’s College on November 24, 1749 at the age of 18. On February 23, 1753, four years later, he left the university without graduating. After ex...
As the research and enthusiasm about this special college continued, I got to realize something that completely influenced my decision. How I was going to deal with some many girls every day? We tend to very competitive among each other. I was going to study engineering, a major that deals with lots of male professionals, hence I did not see how I was going to develop my communication skills if I did never study with males’ classmates. I felt those communication skills were going to lack from my resume. Hence, I got to understand that students from female colleges are negatively affected on their education and behavior because they get an idealistic and hostile educational atmosphere.