Talk:Exeter College, Oxford/Archive 1

Archive 1

College templates

I have created a series of templates for former students of Oxford's various colleges. There are still plenty to do, but if you want to add one the the templates to your user page then feel free. See Wikipedia:Userboxes/Education/United Kingdom/University of Oxford for complete list. File:Anglo-indian.jpg Deano 18:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

College Song

There's a well known song about Exeter college. It's only four words long. Yet, curiously, it's mostly sung by members of Jesus college. Nonetheless, I think it should be added to the article ;-) Nomist 22:12, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

There's a well known reply to that song, involving old milk and rotten eggs. Samgra 08:25, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Will Self

"The College Hall also features memorably in alumnus Will Self's 'Great Apes' where an alternative reality is imagined of an Earth dominated by chimpanzees."

I removed the above from the references section as I was unable to understand what it's actually going on about. Maybe an Exonian would care to see if this is valid and re-insert using 'more easy to understand words'. --Alf ^melmac 16:53, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Former students

I think perhaps we should cut down the number of former students in the list, since there's already a category, and most of them are quite obscure. What do people think? ConDem^Talk 22:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Agreed (two years later!) - I'm moving the list to a new List of Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford FunkyCanute (talk) 10:52, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Glass and tapestries

Should mention the glass in chapel designed by Burnes Jones (iirc), William Morris tapestries - in chapel and the lovely set with Flora in the room near the SCR.--Alf ^melmac 12:26, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

College photograph

I'm not sure it's possible to take a worse photograph of Exeter than the one uploaded here. Surely we could have one of the chapel, or the fellow's garden, or the front quad in general?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.129.46 (talk) 17:09, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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Much good material -- article would be very useful to someone trying to find out about the place. Needs a few more refs to be a WP:GA though IMHO, and more on the main points of interest in the college buildings and properties. Casper Gutman 09:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

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College colours

The colours here (#000033 i.e. dark navy & #990066) differ from those at Academic scarf (black & #9C2770). Which purple may be a matter of taste, but it seems likely that the other discrepancy could be resolved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.10.108.161 (talk) 21:19, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Sports

Exeter has quite a notable sporting history. In rowing, it was the first college - and I believe rowing club - to have adopted sliding seats. According to athletics (track and field), Exeter was the first body of any kind in modern times to organise regular athletics meets, beginning 1850. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FunkyCanute (talk • contribs) 16:25, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Notable Fellows

About half of these have no WP article associated with them. If they're notable in their fields, they should already be individually referenced. Propose to remove. —Preceding unsigned comment added by FunkyCanute (talk • contribs) 11:53, 1 December 2010 (UTC)

To the best of my knowledge, Tariq Ali is NOT an academic at the College (he IS correctly listed as an ex-student).Pincrete (talk) 17:26, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Exeter College Chapel & Lectern, Oxford - Diliff.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Exeter College Chapel & Lectern, Oxford - Diliff.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 21, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-10-21. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 01:06, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day

An interior view of the chapel at Exeter College, Oxford. Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott and constructed between 1854 and 1860, it was heavily inspired by the Sainte-Chapelle chapel in Paris.Photograph: David Iliff