200 metres from Carfax is Lincoln, a miniature version of a picture-book Oxford college, though it considers itself to be forward-looking and progressive. If Ikea decided to make a range of dreaming spires, they might look a bit like the sand-blasted stone quad. Students tend to stick to College affairs rather than roam too far, contributing to the fun, familial atmosphere.
| Sex ratio (M:F): 54:66 |
Founded: 1427 |
| Full-time u’grads: 300 |
Part-time: n/a |
| Postgrads: 250 |
Mature: n/a |
| State:private school: 55:45 |
International: n/a |
| Academic ranking: 9 |
Disabled: n/a |
Attractive Deep Hall Bar (cap. 200); quizzes, bops, karaoke, pool, cabaret; biennial ball. ‘Imperative’ newsletter twice a term. Music society recitals, opera. Converted 17th-Century church library (40,000 books); 20 computers in two rooms, 24hrs. CofE chapel, chaplain. Rowing, rugby, football, netball and croquet are popular, successes in hockey and football; sports fields 10 mins bike ride away. Everyone lives in and eats at formal and/or informal dinners every night; best food in Oxford; self-catering available to second and third years. Nurse, doctor, NHS dentist. Women’s tutor; harassment support; access fund and College bursaries; Oxford Bursaries up to £1,000; scholarships and College prizes. Good college welfare includes Men’s and Women’s, International and Rag Officers plus the essential wine committee, food reps and steak fairy. No, really. Glamourpuss Lucy Pinder is an honorary member of the JCR, along with the somewhat less photogenic Boris Johnson.
FAMOUS ALUMNI
John le Carré (writer); Steph Cook (pentathlete); Sir Rod Eddington (British Airways CEO); Howard Florey (found penicillin); Tom Paulin (poet); Theodore ‘Dr Seuss’ Geisel (crazy-rhyming ‘Cat in the Hat’ author); JA. Hobson (political theorist); Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron); Edward Thomas (poet); John Wesley (founder of Methodism).