Oxford University, the world-famous Oxford University, whenever people mention Oxford, the world-famous Oxford University may be the first thing people think of. Indeed, Oxford is full of culture. Oxford, an immortal city, has both the atmosphere and the pattern of a big city. Standing on the high street, all you can see is the magnificent building with huge stones rushing to the clouds, which is both beautiful and charming, comparable to the most beautiful street in London. Oxford's medieval character was baptized by the latest industrial technology in the 20th century. The automobile industry has brought wealth and employment opportunities, but it has also washed away the classical quiet atmosphere. However, the classical spirit of Oxford has a strong resistance to modern scientific and technological civilization after all. On the avenue of Oxford City, there stand huge Oxford colleges, such as Maitland College, Queens College, University College, Beriau College, Trinity College and Christian College ... Each college has a magnificent hall and dangerous walls. Outside the door wall, the traffic is busy, which is indeed the 20 th century; Inside the door wall, there was silence, still like the Middle Ages.
Oxford University has the oldest library in the world. At present, the Bodelian Library has more than 4.3 million books. Most books are stored underground in Broad Street and arranged on cave-like shelves, including 50,000 of the most precious manuscripts in the world. Scholarly family, academic atmosphere exudes fragrance.
Clarendon Administration Building, ashmolean museum and Sheldon Theatre of Oxford University are of course huge buildings with huge columns and dragons and tigers. The huge Tom Tower and Cathedral of Christian College are also magnificent and stand out from the crowd; The Maitland College15th century giant bell tower, which stands on the banks of the isis River, is even more outstanding, reminiscent of the bell tower of Notre Dame. Of course, people who come to Oxford cannot but be attracted by the steep spire of St. Mary's Church and the adjacent All Souls College. A day trip to England and Oxford.
/kloc-matthew arnold, a great poet in Oxford in the 0 th and 9 th centuries, sang the finishing touch when praising his alma mater: "That sweet capital, her countless dreamlike spires." Rows of minarets, like stalagmites, cover the sky of Niucheng beautifully. From a distance, every stalagmite looks like a statue standing in the clouds, making Oxford look like a paradise city where the gods gather! Oxford also has an elegant side. The small lake of Sessid Lake College is floating, the deer park of Maitland College is quiet and peaceful, and the Maitland trail along the Isis River is elegant and dusty. I can still vaguely understand the Buddhist medieval life of my alma mater described by historian Peng Ji.
Another thing that must be pointed out is the diversity of Oxford. It's easy for you to meet those eccentric nobles here. Of course, more students are from ordinary families. Universities provide various services for various consumption levels. As a well-known university, Oxford has many English colleges, where you can meet many international students and feel the atmosphere of the metropolis.
Everything in the city is for students. You can find what you want. The city is quiet because the students are busy with their homework. So it's hard to find a rich nightlife except at the end of the term. Of course, it's not that there is no nightlife in Oxford, just a short time. If you really can't stand living in a small town, go to London. London is less than an hour's train ride from Oxford.
Oxford, the oldest English-teaching university in the world. It has trained four kings, 46 Nobel Prize winners and 25 British prime ministers, such as Margaret Thatcher and Blair. Many foreign leaders, such as former US President Bill Clinton, followed this example. Including Adam Smith, the father of economics, Hawking, the cosmologist, and Tolkien, who wrote the trilogy of Caution. , are famous scholars and literati who graduated from Oxford. When I first entered Oxford University, the gardens there were deep and ancient, giving people the illusion that I was just visiting.
Oxford is two hours' drive west of London. The pace of life in this city is slower than that in other cities in Britain. At the same time, the student group of Oxford University will not give people a sense of oppression in the fierce competition. Oxford University is a good place to study.
Oxford's University Culture
Oxford consists of 39 colleges, each of which was established in a different era. To understand Oxford, we should start with its unique academic culture. Each college has its own dormitory, classroom, library, church, bar, garden and so on. And the facilities are perfect, which seems to be the epitome of the university. The college is like a warm big family, where students from different departments learn and communicate together.
About 10 to 12 students from each department live in the same college and are supervised by two or three professors. Students leave the dormitory of the college every day, go to the lecture hall of the undergraduate department of the university, and then return to the college for guidance, reading, dining, rest and so on. In remedial classes, the ratio of professors to students is usually one to three, so if you are absent or forget to do your homework, you will be in big trouble.
Don't think that students at Oxford University will only nibble at books. Every Friday night to the early morning, there will be deafening rock music in various colleges. This is the time for students to vent their sulks. But this noisy environment is not suitable for Asian friends. The 39 colleges in Oxford have their own characteristics. First of all, four relatively rich colleges are called "Four Heavenly Kings". They have their own investment projects and real estate, are economically independent and do not rely on university funding, so they have greater autonomy. Colleges with strong economic ability can provide students with cheaper accommodation. Students can even ask university libraries to buy more books they need. Some wealthy colleges own vineyards in the United States and brew their own brands of wine.
The subtle relationship between students and citizens in history When you walk on the streets of Oxford, it is not difficult to notice that all the glass windows on the first floor of Oxford University College are equipped with iron railings outside rather than inside. This is because in the 13 century, Oxford citizens thought that students studying at Oxford University were crazy. The citizens picked up stones and attacked the students, driving them out of town. As a result, a group of students fled Oxford and set up their own homes in Cambridge. Fortunately, this tense atmosphere has become history.
Now Oxford and Cambridge hold boat races every summer, attracting many citizens from all over Britain to watch. Rowing is part of Oxford culture. If every student in Oxford does not row in Oxford, it seems that he has not fully experienced the Oxford spirit.
Another peculiar sight of Oxford is that you can see ancient chapels everywhere. There will be a small cemetery next to the chapel. There can be more than 20 tombstones in the cemetery. Time has erased the handwriting on the tombstone, so no one knows who is buried here.