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Oxford University (Oxford University; Honor: Oxon or Oxf)
Oxford for short, located in Oxford, England, is a public research university with a traditional college system. ?
As a member of Russell University Group, it is known as one of the "Golden Triangle Famous Schools" and "G5". The specific time of the establishment of Oxford University is unknown, but the earliest teaching time recorded in the archives is 1096. Due to the strong support of the British royal family, it developed rapidly in 1 167.
Oxford University is the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second oldest institution of higher education in the world. Since 1902, Oxford University has also established Rhodes Scholarship for undergraduates all over the world.
Oxford is a major city in the Thames Valley. It is said that ancient cows waded through the water, hence the name Oxford. Oxford has always been the focus of London's westbound route. As early as 1096, someone gave a lecture at Oxford.
12 century ago, there were no universities in Britain, and people went to France and other European countries to study.
1 167, the then king of England and the king of France had a quarrel. In a rage, the king of England recalled the British scholars who sent them to the University of Paris and prohibited them from going to the University of Paris again. Another way of saying it is that the French king, in a fit of pique, drove British scholars back to England from the University of Paris.
Anyway, these scholars came back from Paris and gathered in Oxford. With the assistance of the Catholic Benedictine Church, they engaged in the teaching and research of scholasticism.
So people began to regard Oxford as a "general study", which is actually the predecessor of Oxford University. Scholars gathered in Oxford because Henry II built one of his palaces in Oxford at that time, and scholars came here to protect the king.
/kloc-At the end of 0/2, Oxford was called "University for Teachers and Students".
120 1 year, Oxford had its first president.
1209, after the conflict between Oxford students and the townspeople, some Oxford scholars moved to Cambridge Town in the northeast, which was founded by Franciscans, Benedictines and Knights of the Sacred Clothes and established Cambridge University. Since then, the two universities have been competing with each other for quite a long time.
1265438+On June 20th, 2004, the university returned to Oxford and was chartered. 157 1 year passed a bill that officially confirmed the identity of Oxford university. ?
It was in the Middle Ages that young students with active thoughts, unruly lives and frequent debts inevitably clashed with local residents. In one of the biggest conflicts, hundreds of students were shot dead by random arrows. The result of this incident was that the king stepped forward to suppress it and sentenced the citizens to compensate Oxford University for 500 years.
Many colleges that make up Oxford University were built between 13 and16th century. Christian College, founded by Cardinal Worthy on 1525, is a church college for training bishops. The upper part of the tower of Tom Square Garden was built by Lun Yu 1682, which is the largest tower in the city.
When Tom's clock hung at 1648, there were 10 1 students in the college, so at 9: 05 p.m. (Oxford time is five minutes slower than Greenwich time), the clock struck10/to remind the students of the curfew (/kloc-.