Showing posts tagged university

Founding Dates of European Universities

  •   635 - Cambridge (England)
  •   792 - Paris (France)
  •   879 - Oxford (England)
  •   968 - Cordova (Spain)
  • 1116 - Bologna (Italy)
  • 1209 - Valencia (Spain)
  • 1215 - Arezzo (Italy)
  • 1224 - Naples (Italy)
  • 1228 - Padua (Italy)
  • 1229 - Toulouse (France)

Harper’s Book of Facts, 1905.

Blue

At both Oxford and Cambridge, anyone who represented the University at sport was commonly referred to - but quite incorrectly - as a “Blue.”

The Adventure of the Three Students. The Annotated Sherlock Holmes by William S. Baring-Gould, 1972.

Opsimathy

Learning late in life.

Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins by William and Mary Morris, 1977.