Sister Colleges

What exactly does "sister college" mean (i.e. oxford colleges linked with cambridge colleges, e.g. St John's = St. John's...)

Sorry if there have been threads on this already, couldn't see any...

Cheers

Reply 1

d750

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WhatFreshHell?

What exactly does "sister college" mean (i.e. oxford colleges linked with cambridge colleges, e.g. St John's = St. John's...)

Sorry if there have been threads on this already, couldn't see any...

Cheers

St. John's isn't linked with St. John's. SJC Cam is linked with Balliol (and TCD). Not sure about SJC Ox. I don't think the links mean very much, apart from sports fixtures and exchange halls, although I think students at SJC are entitled to a few nights stay at Balliol.

Reply 2

priya

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SJC oxford is linked with Sidney Sussex :biggrin:

Reply 3

Hoofbeat

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I think the whole sister colleges thing is basically like towns being twinned with one another. I think we're twinned with Downing as we had a formal hall swap recently, but I might be wrong!

Reply 4

JHutcher

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Surely Jesus College Cambridge is linked with Jesus College Oxford?

Reply 5

JaF

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From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oxbridge_sister_colleges
These are in the format Oxford with Cambridge:

Wadham with Christ's
Trinity with Churchill
Oriel & St Hugh's with Clare
St Cross with Clare Hall
Corpus Christi with Corpus Christi
Wolfson with Darwin
Lincoln with Downing
Exeter with Emmanuel
St Edmund Hall with Fitzwilliam
Somerville with Girton
Brasenose with Gonville and Caius
Jesus with Jesus
New with King's
Magdalen with Magdalene
St Anne's with New Hall
Lady Margaret Hall with Newnham
Queen's with Pembroke
Merton with Peterhouse,
Pembroke with Queens'
St Catherine's with Robinson
Worcester with St Catharine's
Green with St Edmund's
Balliol with St John's
Keble with Selwyn
St John's with Sidney Sussex
Christ Church with Trinity
University & All Souls' with Trinity Hall
Linacre with Wolfson

Reply 6

slinec.

I think that the All Souls link with Tit Hall may be a little inaccurate. I mean, All Souls is the Oxford of Oxford *10. It just seems a little strange. It would be amazing though if that meant that ordinary students could watch the mallard traditions

Reply 7

puppy

JHutcher

Surely Jesus College Cambridge is linked with Jesus College Oxford?

Why did you think that?

Reply 8

JHutcher

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puppy

Why did you think that?

Might have something to do with the names... and i had heard it somewhere

Reply 9

d750

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slinec.

I think that the All Souls link with Tit Hall may be a little inaccurate. I mean, All Souls is the Oxford of Oxford *10. It just seems a little strange. It would be amazing though if that meant that ordinary students could watch the mallard traditions

Ordinary students can. Just from the gates.

All Souls isn't Oxford *10 (whatever that means), it's Oxford without the students, which isn't Oxford at all. :rolleyes: