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The four Chinese literary classics: The President and Professor Crabbe at the White Monks exhibition 133
Pawdle across the chumba John Penney (GS 1971–72, MCR 1972–73, GBF 1973– 2012, EF 2012– ) spoke at this year’s Iffley Dinner which celebrates the origins of Wolfson. Iffley is the name of a rather charming village, now a southern suburb of Oxford, set beside the Thames and reachable by a pleasant walk following the towpath downstream from the far side of Folly Bridge. There is a wonderfully ornate Norman church, its doors and windows covered with zig-zag decoration on the mouldings, and one of these arches figures in the College coat of arms: above the normal shield (which you can see on the plates), the full coat of arms has a helmet with a crest surmounted by symbols, one of which is an Iffley arch. When I first joined the College, the coat of arms was still under discussion and I remember the disappointment (in some quarters) that greeted the news that the Royal College of Heralds had vetoed the inclusion of a representation of two chromosomes crossed in meiosis – that would certainly have been a heraldic first. It was in a house in Iffley that the University established in 1965 a new college, Iffley College, chiefly to make provision for some of the many people who held University posts but had no college attachment. The 36 Fellows were determined to create a proper college, not just a dining club for senior members, and they had the inspired idea of inviting Isaiah Berlin to be the first President: Isaiah accepted on condition that he was able to raise sufficient funds to build and endow a college (the building at Iffley was far too small), and this he achieved with remarkable speed, so that in October 1966, duly established by University Statute, Wolfson College was born out of Iffley College, rather like Athena from the head of Zeus. So Iffley College was in one sense short-lived; but the ideals of the Iffley Fellows persist and still inform all aspects of College life today, which is why it is appropriate to keep their memory bright. In the early days of the College, Isaiah Berlin used to say: ‘Of course, it’s not a real college yet: there is not enough bad feeling between the Fellows.’ We have been working on this. But I have to confess that we have still not managed to replicate the deep-seated rancours and festering resentments that once characterised certain older colleges. Here by way of illustration is a passage from a 134
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Contents page President and Fellows
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Coecke, Bob, MA (PhD Free Universit
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Rice, Ellen Elizabeth, MA, DPhil (B
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Mueller, Benito, MA, DPhil (Dip ETH
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Mitri, Sara, (BSc American Universi
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College Officers President Vicegere
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Editor’s Note The Record keeps th
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Professor Paul Aveyard, Reader in P
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Wolfson is a creative place, and ou
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I thank, too, all the people I work
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(soon to be Wolfson) College, and h
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Gertrud Seidmann (1919-2013) Gertru
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Revd Greville Chester, a nineteenth
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Helen was determined to make the mo
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Anyone who spent time in her compan
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emains of sustaining our present ac
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Dr Roger Booker Professor Derek Boy
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Dr Edward Thorogood Dr Peter Turner
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Mr Samuel Thomas Dr Mark Tito Profe
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Sketching Wolfson’s new building
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Wolfson’s Architecture, past and
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Haase, Helen (GS 2012-13) MSt Greek
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Marrazza, Martha (GS 2011-12) MSc R
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Roussos, Evangelos (GS 2000-12) DPh
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Barth, Jasper (MPhil Development St
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Tai, Li Yian (MSc Financial Economi
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