Oxford University: 15 Baliol boyfriends, Christ Church chums, and Magdalen muscle men

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After reviewing two tv series set at Oxford, I got nostalgic.  I've only visited once, but Oxford University has the most memorable architecture of any university anywhere.  Harvard and Yale in the U.S. look positively shoddy by comparison.

Plus churches, bookstores, pubs full of rowdy students. 

Hot rowdy students.  And faculty.  

1.-5. I think this is a cricket team posing.

6. A first year from Belfast.

The Bodleian Library, dating from the 12th century, with some of the rarest books in the world, like a Gutenberg Bible, as well as Tolkien's original illustrations for The Hobbit.

7. Oxford is divided into over 30 colleges; you apply to the college, not the university. Jesus College has the reputation of being the friendliest.

More after the break. 

8. Readers are ranked between the Associate and Full Professor.  No new readers are being appointed, but there are a lot of old ones around.

9.  Magdalen has the reputation of being the most athletic.

10-13. Team

14. Merton is one of the more prestigious. J.R.R. Tolkien and T.S. Eliot were grads.

15.  Christ Church is the biggest, with a reputation for being science-oriented, with modern lecture halls.

And the "Harry Potter Dining Hall"

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