In 1877, he won an open scholarship to St John's College, Oxford, where he studied classics.

Upon graduation, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, though because he had switched programs and had left early for Yale University, he did not receive a degree there.

In the meantime Oxford was at liberty, and won a tournament at Westminster on 22 January.

This match was won by the Oxford Dark Blues, 6 – 0.

One of Anderson's early short films, Thursday's Children ( 1954 ), concerning the education of deaf children, made in collaboration with Guy Brenton, a friend from his Oxford days, won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short in 1954.

He was a member of the University rowing team that won the world famous regatta between Oxford and Cambridge for three consecutive years.

He won a scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford on a four year course, which he started in 1968 and he graduated in 1972 with first-class honours degree in biochemistry.

Moore's musical talent won him an organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford.

At 19 he won an entrance scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.

From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford, where he was a solo treble in the college choir.

Graduating in 1938, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to the University of Oxford and, after having deferred it for a year to play football, he went on to attend Hertford College, Oxford.

Blunden left the army in 1919 and took up the scholarship at Oxford that he had won while still at school.

He won an island scholarship in 1932, which allowed him to attend St Catherine's Society, Oxford ( which subsequently became St Catherine's College, Oxford ).

Richard Dawkins, formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford, writes that the same three names of British scientists who are also sincerely religious crop up with the " likable familiarity of senior partners in a firm of Dickensian lawyers ": Arthur Peacocke, Russell Stannard, and John Polkinghorne, all of whom have either won the Templeton Prize or are on its board of trustees.

A talented musician, he won the college's organ scholarship in his first term ( he had previously tried for the organ scholarships at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and Keble College, Oxford ) which enabled him to stay at the university for a fourth year ; he eventually graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1939.

In 2005 – 06, Stanley won the Football Conference and were promoted to League Two, switching places with relegated Oxford United – in a reversal of fortune, the team that had been elected to replace the former Accrington Stanley as members of the Football League in 1962.

Buchan won both the Stanhope essay prize, in 1897, and the Newdigate Prize for poetry the following year, as well as being elected as the president of the Oxford Union and having six of his works published.

He won a place at Balliol College, Oxford where in 1890 he graduated with a first class degree in Mathematics.

In 1870, Asquith won a classical scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford.

New College is one of only a few Oxford or Cambridge Colleges to have won an Olympic Medal ; the New College Boat Club represented Great Britain at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1912 and obtained a silver medal.

New College Boat Club is also one of the few Oxford clubs to have held both Headships at Summer Eights ( though not in the same year ), and one of only 11 Oxford or Cambridge colleges to have won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, having also won the Visitor Challenge Cup twice, the Ladies Challenge Plate twice and the Stewards ' Challenge Cup twice.

* New Oxford American Dictionary, Third Edition, Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Lindberg ( editors ), 2096 pages, August 2010, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-539288-3.

* Oxford Paperback Thesaurus: Third Edition ; ISBN 978-0-19-861425-8

* Hornblower, Simon and Anthony Spawforth, The Oxford Classical Dictionary ( Third Edition ) ( Oxford: OUP, 1996 ), s. v.

" Third Haven " may itself be a corruption of " Thread Haven ", an early name for the first port established at what is now Oxford.

The Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Third International Dictionary point out similarities with words including:

The business district on Third Street was entirely re-built at this time, including the Oxford Hotel ( 1858 ) and Oxford Hall ( 1862 ).

The Oxford Town Clock, on the Peoples Bank of Oxford on South Third Street, was restored in May 2001.

The American Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives plurals in the order " Narcissus ", " Narcissuses ", and " Narcissi ", but the British Compact Oxford English Dictionary lists just " Narcissi " and " Narcissuses ".

* Roberts, Adam and Guelff, Richard ( Editors ); Documents on the Laws of War ; Third Edition ; Oxford University press ; ISBN 0-19-876390-5

His son Charles, studying to be a divine at Christ Church, Oxford, died in 1731, the same year that the Swift and Pope Miscellanies, Volume the Third ( which was the first volume ) appeared.

A current draft Third Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gives only the derivation penta + culum, and defines it as a pentagram, especially enclosed in a circle ; a talisman inscribed with such a shape ; or any similar magic symbol ; pentacle and the Middle French pentacol are considered separate and unrelated words.

Third Revised Edition ( 1955 ; Oxford University Press, 1974 ).

Thesiger was educated at Eton College, a famous independent school in Eton in Berkshire, followed by Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, where he took a Third in History.

The Third Adam, London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

Oxford won the Third Division title in 1967 – 68, their sixth season as a league club, but after eight years of relative stability the club was relegated from the Second Division in 1975 – 76.

In 1982, as a Third Division side, Oxford United faced closure because of the club's inability to service the debts owed to Barclays Bank, but were rescued when businessman Robert Maxwell took over the club.

At the end of the 2000 – 01 season, Oxford was relegated back to the Third Division after a 35-year absence, with 100 goals conceded.

* Sir Patrick Abercrombie, Revised by D. Rigby Childs, " Town and Country Planning ", Third Edition, Oxford University Press, 1959, Reprinted 1961 and 1967.

The organization was founded in 1969 as Third World First by a group of students at Oxford University, supported by NGOs including Oxfam.

The first impression had a publication date of 1623, and the earliest record of a retail purchase is an account book entry for 5 December 1623 of Edward Dering ( who purchased two ); the Bodleian Library, in Oxford, received its copy in early 1624 ( which it subsequently sold for £ 24 as a superseded edition when the Third Folio became available in 1664 ).