/ en /new-college-examination-results-nineteenth-century-uninspiring-indolence-academic-preeminence <div class="top-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large_navigation/public/2024-07/Joseph%20Nash%2C%20New%20ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ%20Hall%20%281858%29%2C%20watercolour%20on%20paper%2C%20New%20ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ%2C%20Oxford%2C%20NCO192588.jpg.webp?itok=GrkzkanA" width="655" height="435" alt="Joseph Nash, New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper, New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, Oxford, NCO192588" class="img-responsive"> </div> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h2> New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Examination Results in the Nineteenth Century: From ‘Uninspiring Indolence’ to ‘Academic Preeminence’ </h2> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field--item">Dennis A. Ahlburg</div> <div class="field field--name-field-issue field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Issue number</div> <div class="field--item">(2024): 21</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-notes-category field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Notes category</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/61" hreflang="en">New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/163" hreflang="en">19thC history </a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/160" hreflang="en">19C history</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/taxonomy/term/574" hreflang="en">Norrington Table</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="middle-wrapper"> <div class="inner-middle-wrapper"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8"> <div class="field field--name-field-summary field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><h3>The fellows and students of New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, Oxford moved on from drinking, gaming, and brutish pleasures to academic success, or learned to balance them much better than in the early centuries of the college’s history. &nbsp;The 19th century opened with the college’s being an academic irrelevancy and closed with its being an academic powerhouse which it is to this day.</h3> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Joseph Nash, New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Hall (1858), watercolour on paper</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h5><strong>New ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, Oxford</strong></h5> </div> </div> <div class="col-md-2 col-md-offset-2 col-sm-3 col-sm-offset-1"> <div class="field field--name-field-attachment field--type-file field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><span class="file file--mime-application-pdf file--application-pdf icon-before"><span class="file-icon"><span class="icon glyphicon glyphicon-file text-primary" aria-hidden="true"></span></span><span class="file-link"><a href="/sites/default/files/2024-07/21NCN5%20%282024%29%20Ahlburg%20on%20Examination%20Results.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=177606" title="Open file in new window" target="_blank" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom">21NCN5 (2024) Ahlburg on Examination Results.pdf</a></span><span class="file-size">173.44 KB</span></span></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-12"> </div> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:15:52 +0000 Christopher 3149 at