Queen's College (University of Melbourne)

Queen's College
Queens College Crest
University	University of Melbourne
Location	1-17 College Crescent, Parkville, Victoria
Coordinates	37°47′37″S 144°57′49″E / 37.7935°S 144.9635°E / -37.7935; 144.9635Coordinates: 37°47′37″S 144°57′49″E / 37.7935°S 144.9635°E / -37.7935; 144.9635
Motto	Aedificamus in aeternum (Latin)
Motto in English	We build for eternity
Founder	William Abraham Quick
Established	1887
Named for	Queen Victoria's golden jubilee
Master	David T. Runia
Undergraduates	220
Postgraduates	50
Website	Website

Queen's College is a residential college affiliated with the University of Melbourne providing accommodation to around 220 students who attend the University of Melbourne, the Victorian College of the Arts, RMIT University and Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

In addition to the students (commonly referred to as "Queener's"), Queen's College (usually known simply as "Queen's") also houses a number of fellows, resident tutors, scholars and professionals (collectively known as the Senior Common Room), staff and academic guests. The resident tutors conduct weekly tutorials for the students on subjects that are involved in their expertise. Despite the large amount of tutors present on campus, many tutorials do not go ahead due to the collapsing of tutorials in an accordance with attendance.

The college was founded in 1887, on 10 acres (40,000 m²) of land assigned to the Methodist Church by the Parliament of Victoria in the area then known as University Reserve (now College Crescent). While this land was allocated soon after the founding of the university in 1853, it was not until 1878—some twenty-five years later—that the Methodist Conference took the first steps towards building the college.

The then Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry Loch, laid the foundation stone on 16 June 1887 after the efforts of the Reverend William Abraham Quick, who is widely regarded as the founder of Queen's.

Initially, it was decided that the college was to be named Victoria College. However, when it became clear that it was to be built in the year of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee, it was finalised in December 1886: "That the new College be called Queen's College in honour of the Queen's Jubilee"

Queen's opened its doors on 16 March 1889, with a total of 24 students, under the leadership of the Revd Edward Holdsworth Sugden, who would go on to hold the position of master for over forty years. Shortly afterward, it became clear that more building was necessary, and on 20 April 1890, the South Wing was opened. Subsequent extensions were made in 1905 and in 1910 a new East Wing was created, joining the new southern wing with the original sections.