Linacre College
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| University | Oxford |
| Location | St Cross Road |
| Coordinates | 51°45′34″N 1°14′59″W / 51.75935°N 1.24984°WCoordinates: 51°45′34″N 1°14′59″W / 51.75935°N 1.24984°W |
| Motto | No End To Learning |
| Established | 1962 |
| Named for | Thomas Linacre |
| Previous names | Linacre House (until 1965) |
| Sister college | Hughes Hall, Cambridge |
| Principal | Nick Brown |
| Undergraduates | None |
| Postgraduates | 500 |
| Grace | Benedictus benedicat |
| Website | www |
| Boat club | Boatclub |
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 Location in Oxford city centre
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Linacre College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in the UK whose members comprise fellows and postgraduate students. The College is named after Thomas Linacre (1460–1524), founder of the Royal College of Physicians and a distinguished Oxford humanist. Linacre was also a medical scientist and a classicist, and the College aims to reflect his multi-disciplinary character.
Linacre College has approximately 500 graduate students studying a broad range of subjects. The majority of students are from outside the UK and represent more than fifty countries. Linacre was the first of Oxford's colleges to admit female and male students on an equal basis. This egalitarian spirit is also reflected by a lack of formal separation between fellows and students. The College has a strong environmental ethos and it was the first college in Oxford to achieve Fairtrade status.
It is located on St Cross Road at its junction with South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by the Departments of Zoology and Experimental Psychology.
Linacre College (called Linacre House for its first three years) was the third graduate-only Oxford college after Nuffield and St Antony's and the UK's first graduate society for both sexes and all subjects. Founding Principal John Bamborough described it as "a deliberate experiment by the University to see whether the needs of graduate students could be met by a new type of society." This pioneering institution was founded on 1 August 1962, in premises on St Aldate's formerly occupied by St Catherine's Society (now St Catherine's College) and currently home to the university's Music Department. Initially there were 115 members of whom only 30 were British. The first senior members included Isaiah Berlin, Dorothy Hodgkin and John Hicks.
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