Oxford - corner of Balliol College - art postcard A&C Black Fred Richards

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• Picture / Image:  'A Corner of Balliol, Oxford' - artist: Fred Richards
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Balliol College /'be?li?l/, founded in 1263,^[2] is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

The college's alumni include three former prime ministers: H. H. Asquith, once described Balliol men as possessing ""the tranquil consciousness of an effortless superiority"", Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath, five Nobel laureates and a number of literary figures and philosophers. Moral philosopher Adam Smith is perhaps the best known alumnus of the college.

As of 2009, Balliol had an endowment of £64 m.^[3]

The College was founded in about 1263 (leading some to argue that it is the University's oldest college, a claim contested by University College and Merton College) by John I de Balliol under the guidance of the Bishop of Durham. After his death in 1268, his widow, Dervorguilla of Galloway (their son and grandson both became Kings of Scotland) made arrangements to ensure the permanence of the college in that she provided capital and in 1282 formulated the college statutes, documents that survive to this day.

Along with many of the ancient colleges, Balliol has evolved its own traditions and customs over the centuries, many of which occupy a regular calendar slot.

The patron saint of the College is Saint Catherine of Alexandria. On her feast day (25 November), a formal dinner is held for all final year students within Balliol. This festival was well established by 1550. Another important feast is the Snell Dinner. This dinner is held in memory of John Snell, whose benefaction established exhibitions for students from the University of Glasgow to study at Balliol (the first exhibitioners were matriculated in 1699) one of whom was Adam Smith. The feast is attended by fellows of Balliol College, the current Snell Exhibitioners, and representatives from Glasgow University and St John's College, Cambridge.

By far the most eccentric event is The Nepotists carol-singing event organised by the College's Arnold and Brackenbury society. This event happens on the last Friday of Michaelmas term each year. On this occasion Balliol students congregate in the college hall to enjoy mulled wine and the singing of carols. The evening historically ended with a rendition of ""The Gordouli"" (see Balliol-Trinity Rivalry below) on Broad Street, outside the gates of Trinity College, although in recent years the song has been sung from within the college walls.

In 1880, seven mischievous Balliol undergraduates published The Masque of B-ll--l, a broadsheet of forty quatrains making light of their superiors – the Master and selected Fellows, Scholars, and Commoners – and themselves. The outraged authorities immediately suppressed the collection, and only a few copies survived, three of which found their way into the College Library over the years, and one into the Bodleian Library. Verses of this form are now known as Balliol rhymes.

The best known of these rhymes is the one on Benjamin Jowett. This has been widely quoted and reprinted in virtually every book about Jowett and about Balliol ever since.

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