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Student body

Perhaps I missed it, but is the student body co-ed, or all-male? 38.115.185.13 (talk) 21:23, 29 August 2008 (UTC)LNelsonChicago[reply]

It now reads: The college remained a largely all-male institution until 1979, when... it admitted its first women undergraduates. What does 'largely all-male' mean? Valetude (talk) 15:11, 5 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Valetude I think "largely" is not needed as there were no female students or fellows until 1979. There is a booklet about Trinity women on the college website, which mentions the involvement of the founder's wife and the existence of female employees from the beginning.^[1]

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^ Hopkins, Clare (2017). "A very brief history of women at Trinity". Feminae Trinitatis (PDF). Trinity College, Oxford. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

Cyril Hinshelwood

I believe his name should be removed from the list of Former Students as he was an undergraduate at Balliol. However he remains a distinguished entry in the list of Fellows. Hookeslaw (talk) 15:27, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Lawn Pavilion Dining Hall

TTBCamh, I changed the caption of the photo of the college's new dining hall to show that it was temporary, see here, and you have changed it back to current, please can you explain your edit. TSventon (talk) 14:39, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TSventon—it's just semantic differences I suppose. I agreed with your reversal of my change for the description of the main hall, which is why I didn't change that back. However, I don't feel that "current" and "temporary" are mutually exclusive. It is the current hall, and as I believe this state of affair is meant to last for over a year—and I also believe Trinity is holding formals in the hall, as well as adding portraits, etc.—it feels like "temporary" doesn't do justice to the work put into it. Hence I feel the description is more than apt. Hope that makes sense. TTBCamh (talk) 17:14, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I also think I remember why I changed the caption under the picture of the original hall—the current plans are to extensively renovate the hall, which includes a plan to change the decor, paint colour, etc. I think I was trying to get at the differences between the original hall and its new iteration, though I realise that referring to the "former" hall was very poorly worded. TTBCamh (talk) 17:19, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The current wording is certainly misleading, as it gives the casual reader the impression that the old hall has been completely superseded. Personally I see nothing wrong with the word "temporary", even if it is expected to be in use for over a year. One way forward would be to say something about the (historic) hall in the body of the article – presumably within the currently very perfunctory and unsourced "Durham Quadrangle" subsection – including a brief mention of the fact that it is currently undergoing renovation. GrindtXX (talk) 18:32, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The hall was mentioned until 18 March 2021 "The only major surviving building from the Durham College foundation is the east range of Durham quad, containing the Old Library, which dates from 1421, although elements of the pre-Reformation fabric also survive on the opposite side of the quad, at either end of the 17th-century hall.^{[citation needed]}" TSventon (talk) 18:39, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Hopkins, Clare (2017). "A very brief history of women at Trinity". Feminae Trinitatis (PDF). Trinity College, Oxford. pp. 6–7. Retrieved 5 November 2020.

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