Oxbridge

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Oxbridge is a name for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge . These are the two oldest universities in the UK and the English-speaking world.

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"Oxbridge" is a briefcase word for the names of the two universities, which on the one hand have always been competitors, but on the other hand both traditionally - together with Eton - are considered to be Britain's elite forges.

The term Oxbridge also connotes, as a sociological habitus term , the exclusivity of educational institutions and the associated right to access to the country's important elites . So the term z. B. used in connection with the emergence of the modern Olympic Games .

Use and modifications

Even if the two universities are more than 800 years old, the term Oxbridge was only used by William Thackeray in his novella Pendennis (1849), as the main character attended the fictional Boniface College, Oxbridge . According to the Oxford English Dictionary , Virginia Woolf first used the term for the habitus of both universities in 1929 in the essay A Room by itself .

The term Camford , which has the same meaning as Oxbridge, was used in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Creeping Man in 1923. Doxbridge was used for a sporting competition between Durham , Oxford, York and Cambridge. The term Woxbridge was used for a conference between Warwick , Oxford and Cambridge. The term Loxbridge (referring to London , Oxford and Cambridge) is also used occasionally.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger : The Oxbridge Connection: Coubertin and British Sport up to the time of the founding of the IOC. In: Roland Naul , Manfred Lämmer (ed.): The men around Willibaldt Gebhardt. Beginnings of the Olympic Movement in Europe. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 2002, ISBN 3-89124-791-5 , pp. 107-131.
  2. ^ The University Sports Tour for Easter 2008. Archived from the original on April 2, 2008 ; Retrieved April 13, 2008 .
  3. Woxbridge 2011. In: Conference website. Retrieved April 7, 2016 .
  4. ^ KJ Morgan: The research assessment exercise in English universities, 2001 . In: Higher Education . tape 48 , no. 4 , 2004, p. 461-482 , doi : 10.1023 / B: HIGH.0000046717.11717.06 .