The upper reading room, or Cohen Room, has an elaborate plastered ceiling and the Senior Library ( downstairs ) holds some of the college's older books, including pamphlets from the English Civil War period, Wesleyana, and plays dating from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as a small collection of manuscripts.

ADC shares facilities with Acadia University ; the college's library is part of the university's 800, 000 volume Vaughan Memorial Library collection.

The collection was begun in 1376 and much improved by a bequest from Matthew Parker, the college's Master between 1544 and 1553, who as Archbishop of Canterbury formed a fine collection of manuscripts from the libraries of dissolved monasteries.

Peniston became director of the Lee Chapel at Washington and Lee University, retired again, and subsequently began volunteering in the Special Collections section of the college's Leyburn Library, where he transcribed more than 3, 000 letters from the library's Robert E. Lee collection and Lee-Jackson Foundation Papers.

Although his foundation of Lincoln College, Oxford was incomplete at the time of his death, the college's future was eventually secured and Fleming's manuscript books became the core collection of the collegiate library.

In addition to the museum, the college's collection is installed in " focus " areas in the corridors, dining halls and other highly visible and accessible locations across the campus, sparking a spontaneous engagement with art for students, faculty, staff and visitors.

The most notable single item of the college's silver collection is a massive silver gilt punch bowl that Wynn presented to it in 1732.

The college boasts a diverse collection of dorms and halls, ranging from an 18th C tavern, to a renovated 19th C carriage house, to the newly built, eco-friendly Marblehead Hall, purchased over the years as the college's student population grew.

The new Student Union also offers several dining options, and houses both a Leadership Center and a Media Center that includes the college's news magazine, literary journal, and KDUR radio station.

The college's historical significance includes its role in the translation of the King James Bible.

It encompasses the college's old Glennie Gymnasium and includes a brand new fieldhouse with indoor tennis courts and track, natatorium, fitness complex, wellness suite, locker and training rooms, classrooms and offices.

Library Court was completed in January 2008 and houses the college's student centre which includes the college bar, JCR and the Taylor Library along with new college offices.

The college's main campus covers 191 acres ( 773, 000 m² ) and includes 30 traditional and modern buildings.

The college's accommodation and communal facilities are modern and spacious, and includes an adjacent conference centre which is regularly used by external organisations.

The college's dining service includes a cafeteria, the Market Place.

The college's faculty includes 154 full-time professors.

The college's mascot is the Spider, derived from Jonathan Edwards ' famous sermon, " Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God ", which includes the line, " The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.

It also includes stats and updates on the college's sports teams.

The college's infrastructure includes teaching laboratories and general facilities.

Located in Franklin, the college's campus includes its athletic fields and a woodland for biology study.

This mission also includes providing occupational training that is customized to the kinds of employment available regionally, in view of the college's experience that many living on the reservation choose to remain in the area.

Rampart Range Campus hosts some of the college's Health Sciences programs including the Nursing Program, which includes a state-of-the-art Nursing SIM Lab.

Nichols presented the statue of Ninomiya Sontoku to then Rollins President Hamilton Holt who promised to keep the statue in the main lobby of the college's Warren Administration Building forever.

At first, the college rejected the offer made by Okinawan officials, who suggested that a replica of the statue would be presented to the school if the original was returned to the island, however, after consulting both with the U. S. State Department and the college's board of trustees, then Rollins President Rita Bornstein accepted the offer and the statue was returned to Okinawa in 1995 in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

On 26 February 1861, Matthew Vassar presented the college's Board of Trustees with a tin box containing half of his fortune, $ 408, 000 ( approximately $ 9, 700, 000 in 2008 dollars ) and a deed of conveyance for of land to establish the campus.

The college's mission, the charter stated, was to prepare students " for discharging the Offices of Life with usefulness & reputation " by providing instruction " in the Vernacular and Learned Languages, and in the liberal Arts and Sciences.

On December 15, 2006, the college filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, alleging that a decision by the state to block the college from participating in the state sponsored CareerLink job service amounted to a violation of the college's First Amendment rights.

The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $ 50, 000.

There are many clubs and societies organised by the students of the college, such as the college's dramatic society the Pembroke Players, which has been made famous by alumni such as Peter Cook, Eric Idle, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Clive James and Bill Oddie and is now in its 50th year.

Fisher is ranked by U. S. News & World Report among the Doctoral Research Universities ( DRU ), which reflects the college's growth in the area of doctoral program offerings.

The phony college's equally nonexistent football team had its scores carried by major newspapers including The New York Times before the hoax was discovered.

The college's chapel was built in 1763 and designed by Sir James Burrough, the Master of neighbouring Caius College.

Off-campus sites include the Business Training Center in Gaithersburg and Westfield South in Wheaton, which are operated by the college's Workforce Development and Continuing Education division.

The style was crafted by prominent Boulder architect James M. Hunter, who was contracted to establish a campus building plan by the college in the late 1950s, following the college's move from Hesperus, Colorado, to its Durango location.

The transcript is separate from but augments the college's standard transcript by supplying an officially recognized and quantified listing of experiences in participatory community work both in and out of classes.

Continuing the west-side Stc XII-XIV dates from 1826, by George Basevi, and marks the beginnings of the college's academic renaissance being required for the increasing number of Commoners applying for places.

Distinctive features of the college's architecture have been used as models by a number of other academic institutions, including the National University of Ireland, Galway, which reproduces Tom Quad.

The chapel in the form of a Greek cross was dedicated by the college's founder Edward Stuart Talbot, in January 1933.

Encountering both insufficient endowment and trouble from the Wars of the Roses ( for their charter was from the deposed Lancastrian ), the College seems only to have survived thanks to tireless efforts by its fellows in gaining recognition of the college's validity and the munificence of a second Bishop of Lincoln, Thomas Rotherham.

The building was in use as a lecture hall by 1923, and after modernisation between 1991 and 1994, funded by Sir Philip and Lady Harris, contains accommodation, a seminar room and the college's main lecture theatre.

Confusion may also be caused by the fact that the college's coat of arms has a yellow / gold field.

The college's mascot is the moose, inspired by the installation in the dining hall of a stuffed moose head in honor of former college master and Yale president A. Bartlett Giamatti.

It has " a winding sidewalk shaped in the college's trademark ' VT '" and " a flagpole surrounded by 32 Hokie Stones ", one for each of the 32 victims of the shooting.

A Charter of Incorporation was granted by Queen Victoria on 13 September 1882, and the west range of Old Court was ready for use by the college's official opening ( with the Master's installation ) on 10 October 1882, in time for Michaelmas Term.