[KS] Re: Cambridge DJ Centre

[Jay Lewis]

David,

stop being silly.  Both universities were incorporated in 1571, but
that's irrelevant.  What is relevant is how we can help Cambridge make a
success of their new venture, because any expansion of educational
opportunity on Korea is to be applauded.  My colleagues in this
country have taken a skeptical view, not because they churlishly
begrudge benefits not accuring to themselves, but because we are all
trying to understand how Cambridge might best contribute to the study of 
Korea in the UK.  We are a small community of scholars, and rather than
compete, we seek to complement.  I'm sure that I speak for all if I say
that we're looking forward to receiving more information and wish them
success.

Yours,
Jay
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 ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA 
 
 Oxford, University of 

English autonomous institution of higher learning at Oxford, Oxfordshire,
Eng. It lies along the Upper River Thames (called by Oxonians the Isis),
50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of London.

Sketchy evidence indicates that schools existed at Oxford as soon as the
early 12th century. By the end of that century a university was well
established, perhaps resulting from the barring of English students from
the University of Paris about 1167. Oxford was modeled on the University
of Paris, with initial faculties of theology, law, medicine, and the
liberal arts.

In the 13th century the university gained added strength, particularly in
theology, with the establishment of several religious orders, principally
Dominicans and Franciscans, in the town of Oxford. The university had no
buildings in its early years; lectures were given in hired halls or
churches. The various colleges of Oxford were originally merely endowed
boardinghouses for impoverished scholars. They were intended primarily for
masters or bachelors of arts who needed financial assistance to enable
them to continue study for a higher degree. The earliest of these
colleges, University College, was founded in 1249. Balliol College was
founded about 1263, and Merton College in 1264.

During the early history of Oxford its reputation was based on theology
and the liberal arts. But it also gave more serious treatment to the
physical sciences than did the University of Paris: Roger Bacon, after
leaving Paris, conducted his scientific experiments and lectured at Oxford
from 1247 to 1257. Bacon was one of several influential Franciscans at the
university during the 13th and 14th centuries. Among the others were Duns
Scotus and William of Ockham. John Wycliffe (c. 1330-84) spent most of his
life as a resident Oxford doctor.

Beginning in the 13th century the university was strengthened by charters
from the crown, but the religious foundations in Oxford town were
suppressed during the Protestant Reformation. In 1571 an act of Parliament
led to the incorporation of the university. The university's statutes were
codified by its chancellor, Archbishop William Laud, in 1636. In the early
16th century professorships began to be endowed, and in the latter part of
the 17th century interest in scientific studies increased
substantially. During the Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus carried the new
learning to Oxford, and such scholars as William Grocyn, John Colet, and
Sir Thomas More enhanced the university's reputation. Since that time
Oxford has traditionally held the highest reputation for scholarship and
instruction in the classics, theology, and political science.
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ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA 
 Cambridge, University of 

English autonomous institution of higher learning at Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire, Eng., on the River Cam 50 miles (80 km) north of London.

The start of the university is generally taken as 1209, when scholars from
Oxford migrated to Cambridge to escape Oxford's riots of "town and
gown" (townspeople versus scholars). To avert possible troubles, the
authorities in Cambridge allowed only scholars under the supervision of a
master to remain in the town. It was partly to provide an orderly place of
residence that (in emulation of Oxford) the first college, Peterhouse, was
founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, bishop of Ely. Over the next three
centuries another 15 colleges were founded, and in 1318 Cambridge received
formal recognition as a studium generale from Pope John XXII.

Cambridge remained fairly insignificant until about 1502, when a
professorship of divinity was founded--the oldest in the university. In
1511 Desiderius Erasmus went to Cambridge and did much to inculcate the
new learning of the Renaissance there. In 1546 Henry VIII founded Trinity
College (which was and still remains the largest of the Cambridge
colleges). In 1570 Elizabeth I gave the university a revised body of
statutes, and in 1571 the university was formally incorporated by act of
Parliament. The new statutes, which remained in force for nearly three
centuries, vested the effective government of the university in the heads
of colleges. Membership of the university was no longer envisaged without
membership of a college.
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, David McCann wrote:

> Mmm.  (We are tuning up.)
> 
> >From the Other Side, one finds:
> 
> Cambridge University.  Originating in the early 12th century....  a center
> of the new learning of the Renaissance and of the theology of the
> Reformation...  Its faculties (!) include classics, divinity, English,
> architecture and history of art, modern and medieval languages, Oriental
> studies....
> 
> The Columbia Encyclopedia.  Not up to today's development office brochures
> in certain respects.  It is said, though, I have heard, indirectly, that
> Cambridge is actually a wee bit older than Oxford.
> 
> 
> 




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