Cambrige and Oxford

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Oxford University is one of the two oldest, most prestigious and most aristocratic British universities. It was created in 1 176. Over 130 nationalities are represented among students.

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Oxford consists of 38 self-governing colleges : 28 colleges for men, 5 colleges for women, 5 colleges for both men and women. Each college has its own hall, chapel and library. The university has about 2 0,000 students.

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Most of the colleges are built around courtyards, called quads, with lawns in the centre.

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Christ Church College The largest of Oxford University’s colleges is Christ Church, founded in 1525 .

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Oxford houses the Bodleian Library . It is one of the most important libraries in the world with its 3,000,000 books and 50,000 manuscripts. There is the Radcliffe Camera, a classical rotunda now used as a reading-room for the Bodleian.

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The cost of studies in the university is rather high. Students have to pay for using libraries and laboratories, as for taking exams .

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A characteristic feature of Oxford is that it keeps to the traditions of the past (the Middle Ages). All the students wear long black gowns and students’ caps. Without his or her gown no student is allowed to call on a tutor, to have dinner in the college dining-room or attend a lecture.

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Margaret Thatcher Bill Clinton Famous Graduates

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Lewis Caroll Oscar Wilde J. R. Tolkien Famous Graduates

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Cambridge

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Cambridge is famous for its prestigious schools.

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Cambridge takes its name from the river Cam on which it is situated. It is 80 km far from London.

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Cambridge consists of 3 1 colleges : 3 colleges for women, 28 colleges for both men and women.

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In old times students of Cambridge were not allowed to play games , sing, hunt, fish, dance. They wore special dark clothes and “squares”, the academic caps, they wear them nowadays.

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Cambridge University has 114 libraries .

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Famous Cambridge Students Ernest Rutherford Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Cambridge has been a home of great poets, writers and leading scientists.

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Study well and you’ll have a chance to enter these universities.