/ en /new-college-examination-results-nineteenth-century-uninspiring-indolence-academic-preeminence <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/Joseph%20Nash%2C%20New%20College%20Hall%20%281858%29%2C%20watercolour%20on%20paper%2C%20New%20College%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCO192588.jpg.webp?itok=GrkzkanA" width="655" height="435" alt="Joseph Nash, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford, NCO192588" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’ </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Dennis A. Ahlburg</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/163" hreflang="en">19thC history </a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/160" hreflang="en">19C history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/574" hreflang="en">Norrington Table</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The fellows and students of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford moved on from drinking, gaming, and brutish pleasures to academic success, or learned to balance them much better than in the early centuries of the college’s history. &nbsp;The 19th century opened with the college’s being an academic irrelevancy and closed with its being an academic powerhouse which it is to this day.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Joseph Nash, °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-07/21NCN5%20%282024%29%20Ahlburg%20on%20Examination%20Results.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=177606" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN5 (2024) Ahlburg on Examination Results.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">173.44 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:15:52 +0000 Christopher 3149 at