Trinity Student Pranks
Trinity Student Pranks

Author: John Engle

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2013-09-02

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0752497987

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Trinity College Dublin is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the unsuspecting dons. This fascinating volume recalls some of the greatest stunts, japes and practical jokes in the University’s history, including: a night-time escapade by the University Boat Club that plunged the town of Henley into darkness, the ‘buildering’ traditions of Trinity night climbers, the sticky-fingered activities of the Phil Society and its long-running rivalry with the Hist, and the exploits of future antiquarian and prince of mischief Andrew Bonar-Law. Also featured are some of the darker deeds of mischief that the earlier students were involved in, such as the Battle of Botany Bay and the pranks that went too far ... This enthralling work will amaze and entertain in equal measure — and may well prove a source of inspiration for current students wishing to enliven their undergraduate days.

Cambridge Student Pranks
Cambridge Student Pranks

Author: Jamie Collinson

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-11-16

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 075095406X

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Cambridge University is famed for the resourcefulness and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on the unsuspecting dons. This fascinating volume recalls some of the greatest stunts and practical jokes in the University’s history, including: the story of how a group of students fooled the art world with their Post-Impressionist exhibition; the Zanzibar hoax, in which members of the famous Bloomsbury set conned the Mayor of Cambridge (a hoax which sowed the seeds for their later ‘VIP inspection' of HMS Dreadnought which duped the Royal Navy); and of course the most famous prank of all – the Austin Seven on the roof of Senate House. This enthralling work will amaze and entertain in equal measure — and may well prove a source of inspiration for current students wishing to enliven their undergraduate days.

Trinity University
Trinity University

Author: R. Douglas Brackenridge

Publisher: Trinity University Press

Published: 2016-02-25

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1595347909

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Since its founding in 1869 by the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Trinity University has been engaged in realizing the dreams of its founders to become “a University of the highest order.” In Trinity University: A Tale of Three Cities, R. Douglas Brackenridge, professor emeritus of religion at Trinity, brings a wealth of scholarship and knowledge to this institutional history. Brackenridge traces Trinity’s unique heritage from its founding in Tehuacana and growth in Waxahachie to its emergence in San Antonio as a top private university for the study of liberal arts and sciences. He draws on historical records and reports, oral histories, newspaper accounts, books, correspondence, and archives to document the university’s challenges and successes. He describes Trinity’s development within the broader context of private, church-related universities in America, while profiling the administrators, faculty, staff, and students who have contributed to Trinity’s rich heritage. The result is a well-researched story of the founding and the progression of one of the nation’s exceptional institutions for higher learning. Illustrations picture Trinity’s campuses in three cities and include black and white photographs.

Oxford Student Pranks
Oxford Student Pranks

Author: Richard O Smith

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-08-16

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0750954051

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Oxford University is famed for the intelligence and innovation of its students. However, not all the undergraduates have devoted their talents to academia; instead they spent their time devising ingenious and hilarious pranks to play on their unsuspecting dons. This fascinating volume recalls some of the greatest stunts and practical jokes in the university's history, including those by Oscar Wilde, Percy Shelly, Richard Burton and Roger Bacon. Ranging from the stunt that gave Folly Bridge its name and a nineteenth-century jape that resulted in the expulsion of all the students from University College, to the long-running rivalry between Town and Gown and the exploits of the infamous Bullington Club, this enthralling work will amaze and entertain in equal measure – and may well prove a source of inspiration for current students wishing to enliven their undergraduate days.

MTV England
MTV England

Author: Olivia Edward

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-05-29

Total Pages: 706

ISBN-13: 0764587730

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Get the inside scoop on England, plus Scottish highlights. From the coolest nightclubs in London to surfing off the Cornish coast, MTV England shows you where you want to be, with choices for every budget so you can travel the way you want to. Alternative accommodations. Stay everywhere from a London hostel with a rooftop hot tub to a thatched-roof cottage in the Cotswolds. Cheap eats. Fuel up with curries in London, tapas in Oxford, and fish and chips in Brighton. Great clubs, bars & pubs. Order a pint of real ale by a roaring logfire, dance all night with the local university crowd, or mingle with posh socialites over elegant cocktails. World-class museums & offbeat attractions. From fine art in London to Nessie-hunting at the Loch Ness 2000 exhibition in Scotland—plus the best places to hike, ride a horse, and even surf. Visit us online ar Frommers.com

The University of Toronto
The University of Toronto

Author: Martin L. Friedland

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 825

ISBN-13: 1442615362

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Anyone who attended the University or who is interested in the growth of Canada's intellectual heritage will enjoy this compelling and magisterial history.

Backstory
Backstory

Author: William Michael Ried

Publisher: CKBooks Publishing

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1949085384

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Ansel Tone, a celebrity author on revisionist history and propaganda professor at Columbia, drives fast cars and runs with glamorous women. He’s up for tenure and writing a new book when he attends a Trinity College reunion. His ex-classmate Charlie announces he will base his next novel on meeting his wife during their year in the Dublin, on a campus cloaked in four-hundred-years of student pranks and mayhem. Ansel may accept that Charlie married the beautiful Tess, Ansel’s girlfriend that year, but how Charlie remembers the story threatens to upend Ansel’s life. He can’t let that happen and so sets out to revise history. In New York City and the Hudson River Valley, Charlie digs into the past, Ansel struggles to rewrite his own past, and Tess wonders if she wound up with the right guy. Their unwitting ex-classmates will share the repercussions.

The Enduring Word
The Enduring Word

Author: Arnold Edinborough

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1978-12-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1487596618

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Since Wycliffe College was founded 100 years ago as an Anglican theological college in Toronto, it has had six principals. To celebrate the influence they and the college have had on the religious life of Canada and other countries, six writers have collaborated to produce The Enduring Word. The lives of the five past principals have been written by Jacob Jocz, T.R. Millman, R.K. Harrison, Alan Hayes, and Robert Finch. Arnold Edinborough's profile of the present principal, Dr Reginald Stackhouse provides insight into both the man and the kinds of challenges he faces as he leads Wycliffe into its second century. Rich in anecdote and sound in research, The Enduring Word is a centennial volume whose interest goes far beyond the college and its members pas and present.