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Joseph Trapp, lines written on George I's donation of the Bishop of Ely's Library to the University of Cambridge



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Lord Salisbury, writing to William Sanday in May 1900



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Winifred Mary Letts, "The Spires of Oxford" (1916)



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John Snagge, commentator on the 1949 Boat Race, between Oxford and Cambridge...



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Matthew Arnold, describing the view of Oxford from Boars Hill



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Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College 1870–93



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George Farquhar, from Sir Harry Wildair



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Psalm 27, the motto of the University ("The Lord is my light")



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Mallard Song, sung once a century at All Souls College



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Elizabeth Goudge, from Towers in the Mist



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Penelope Lively, from The House in Norham Gardens



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John Cecil Masterman, Provost of Worcester College 1947–61



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Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister 1957–63 and Chancellor of the University 1960–86



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Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College



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John Ruskin, Professor of Art, refusing to admit women to his lectures in 1871



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Anon, c.1900



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George Robert Parkin, The Rhodes Scholarships, 1915



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William Laud, Chancellor of the University and Archbishop of Canterbury, from his University Statutes of 1636



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Compton Mackenzie, Sinister Street (1914) – the speaker is describing the "essential Balliol"



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James Elroy Flecker, from The Dying Patriot



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Lord Curzon, Chancellor of the University, commenting upon the meal proposed to follow the award of an honorary degree to Queen Mary in 1921.



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Geoffrey Chaucer, the opening lines of "The Miller's Tale", one of The Canterbury Tales



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Norris McWhirter, announcing Roger Bannister's achievement in running a mile in under four minutes on 6 May 1954 at the university's Iffley Road Track. The remainder of his announcement was drowned out by cheering.



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Javier Marías, Spanish author who taught at Oxford in the mid-1980s and author of the novel Todas las almas (All Souls)



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W. B. Yeats, aged 23, in a letter to Katharine Tynan (1888)



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Gordon Brown, expressing his views in May 2000 about the Laura Spence Affair



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Lord Franks, former Provost of Worcester College



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Motion at the "King and Country debate", held at the Oxford Union in February 1933. The motion was carried by 275 votes to 133.



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Richard Rhodes, discussing the scientist C. P. Snow's views about the hostility of intellectuals towards techology