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undergraduates

from the article: "There are now no undergraduate members, but All Souls did once have them...The downside of this soon appeared..." What was the downside? Could someone please add it to the article, as folks who don't know this inside information have no clue what 'downside' means. Thanks. --159.178.230.36 (talk) 18:40, 15 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title

ne would have thought that one of the most highly reputed seats of learning in the country would have taken the car to present its own name properly: can anyone enlighten me as to why it is not called All Souls'? Kevin McE 10:18, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because "All Souls" isn't a genitive, it's just part of the name. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 20:27, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Or maybe because the naming of the college predates the use of the apostrophe to indicate the genitive. 217.204.51.162 (talk) 12:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Graduate students

Are there really none? There are usually a handful (or used or be), finishing D.Phils. etc. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 08:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose you're quite right! I was thinking of this category as synonymous with "MCR Members" or similar, coming as it does after the MCR/GCR president, but this isn't correct. Do you think it be more accurate to put 8 (approx) as the Prize Fellows could be regarded as falling into this category. At least, they will for the first few years of their (seven-year) Fellowships when they are studying for further degrees. Two are elected each year, so even if they followed 1+3 or 2+2 year courses there shouldn't be more than about 8 in total. --Casper Gutman 12:59, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture

I've rated this article as a stub from an architectural perspective as there's very little architectural content at the moment. --Mcginnly | Natter 09:31, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

students

Onle 8 students? but the college is huge, surely this is a mistake? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.156.70.56 (talk) 19:55, 25 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Lead image (infobox)

Would there be any objection to moving the existing infobox image to the gallery and replacing it with either of these images? Thanks-Godot13 (talk) 20:28, 25 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Sections on History and Architecture could be expanded, and the number of references is low. Casper Gutman 23:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Hawksmoor Towers at All Souls College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. All Souls is one of the wealthiest colleges in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £286.4m (2014), but only ranks nineteenth among Oxford colleges with respect to total income. The college has no undergraduate members; each year, recent graduate and postgraduate students at Oxford are eligible to apply for Examination Fellowships through a competitive examination and an interview.Photograph: Andrew Shiva

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T. E. Lawrence

On the page to which "T. E. Lawrence" in the Fellows section links (that of the Thomas Edward Lawrence who became known as Lawrence of Arabia), there is mention of his study at Jesus College, Oxford and a £100 Senior Demyship scholarship in 1910 from Magdalen College, Oxford. There is no mention of All Souls College, in spite of the extensive level of personal details included. Is it possible that this is an inadvertent reference to a different T. E. Lawrence? ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 08:47, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You seemed to have missed the bit in the article about him where it says "In 1919, he had been elected to a seven-year research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, providing him with support while he worked on the book." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says "By August [1919] he was back in England where he was demobilized and was soon afterwards elected to a fellowship of All Souls." So the reference to him here is correct. Bencherlite ^Talk 10:31, 28 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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College name is incorrect

The official name of the College is not "The Warden and the College of the Souls of All Faithful People Deceased in the University of Oxford", it is "The College of the souls of all the faithful departed". The name may slightly vary from one source to the next since it was translated from Latin, nevertheless you will find the official name as advertised by All Souls on the website at: https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/history-of-the-college If using The Warden and... it should then be The Warden and Fellows of the College etc. this form should be used when addressing the "governing body" rather than the actual College. I am hoping that the original article may be amended to reflect the official title of the College as people have been picking the name from Wikipedia for official business with the College. Anne-Laure1975 (talk) 13:59, 14 July 2017 (UTC)^[1][reply]

References

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Mallard video from 2001?

Does anyone know of any video footage (or still images or even audio recordings for that matter) we could link to of the 2001 mallard ceremony? I don't want to have to wait until the century is out before I can behold this spectacle.... Beorhtwulf (talk) 19:03, 19 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Possible History section expansion

There is an extravagantly detailed history of Chichele's founding of the college at the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article on Henry Chicheley [sic]. I've added the link to this article, but it's there in case anyone wants to expand the History section. David Brooks (talk) 17:16, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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