Joseph Nash, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper, Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford, NCO192588

Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’

Dennis A. Ahlburg
Issue number
(2024): 21

The fellows and students of Ï㽶ֱ²¥, 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.  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.

 

Joseph Nash, Ï㽶ֱ²¥ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper

 

Ï㽶ֱ²¥, Oxford