46-569: Hughes Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England . It is the oldest of the University of Cambridge's postgraduate colleges. The college also admits undergraduates , though undergraduates admitted by the college must be aged 21 or over. There is no age requirement for postgraduate students. The majority of Hughes Hall students are postgraduate , although nearly one-fifth of
92-412: A high table . Students can walk on college lawns. The college's historic establishment in the 19th century with the purpose of supporting graduate study in education has continued and developed over time with a significant number of students each year taking courses in professional and applied fields, alongside those studying and carrying out research in more traditional Arts and Humanities subjects. With
138-427: A circle of distinguished literary and artistic friends, and produced her books in quick succession. Though a most conscientious worker, she wrote with great facility. Her poems mostly formed themselves in her mind before they were committed to paper; and the manuscripts of her prose works were frequently sent to the printer, with but few corrections, as they were first written. The book which followed Gerard's Monument
184-417: A group of colleges with a small central university administration, rather than universities in the common sense. Cambridge's colleges are communities of students, academics and staff – an environment in which generations and academic disciplines are able to mix, with both students and fellows experiencing "the breadth and excellence of a top University at an intimate level". Cambridge colleges provide most of
230-469: A mainly postgraduate student body, undergraduates share facilities and an intellectual culture with PhD researchers and MPhil students. Hughes Hall has an active student sports calendar with college teams in Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Cricket, Football, Rowing, Rugby, Squash, Table Tennis, and others. Members of the college are also active in sports and teams at university and national level. There are
276-471: A number of college societies, including a Chess Club, Film Society, Writing Group, and Law Society amongst others. The college's "Hat Club" organises events where students and fellows present papers on their research and study to an audience of college members, and the Enterprise Society supports and encourages students with an interest in starting their own business. The college's main performance space
322-494: A particular subject), Dean (responsible for discipline among college members), Senior Tutor (responsible for the college's overall academic provision), or Head of college ('Head of House'). Colleges are self-governed charities in their own right, with their own endowments and possessions. The University of Cambridge has 31 colleges, founded between the 13th and 20th centuries. No colleges were founded between 1596 ( Sidney Sussex College ) and 1800 ( Downing College ), which allows
368-538: A tea merchant born in the Duchy of Holstein . Shortly before her marriage she fell into a state of physical prostration, which threatened to become permanent, and which in part lasted for about ten years after that event. During this time every mental exertion, even reading, was prohibited. When at last —thanks to the care of her husband— she recovered a degree of health, it was clear that this long time in which she had worked on her recovery, so far from being lost to her, assisted
414-473: A tea merchant. As a poet, she was particularly known for her sonnets . Pfeiffer inherited her husband's wealth. She used it to promote women's education, and to establish an orphanage for girls. Emily Jane Davis was born in Montgomeryshire , Wales, on 26 November 1827. Her childhood and early youth were spent amidst the rural scenery of Oxfordshire , England. Nature developed her imagination, as well as
460-458: Is centred around college teams and inter-collegiate competition in Cuppers . Student activity is typically organised through separate common rooms for undergraduate and postgraduate students. Another important element of collegiate life is formal hall , which range in frequency from weekly to every night of the week during Full Term. Colleges also provide funding, accommodation, or both, for some of
506-580: Is near the middle of Cambridge, halfway between Cambridge railway station and the Market Square . The college is located in the Petersfield area of the city, close to Mill Road and accessible from Mortimer Road. The main site is in a mainly residential area, and it is beside the Fenner's cricket ground, and across the road from Parkside Pools and Kelsey Kerridge Gym, which are the main public sports facilities in
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#1732876757582552-538: Is the rowing club of the college, in 2003 there was an official merger with the boat club of Lucy Cavendish College (then a graduate women-only college of the university) creating the "Hughes Hall/Lucy Cavendish Combined Boat Club". The Club has been successful in the May Bumps with the men's first crew winning blades (a distinction accorded to a boat bumping each day of the bumps) in 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014. Uniquely,
598-525: Is the Pavilion Room which hosts a number of regular musical groups and organizations. The Stradivari Trust, the Cambridge Graduate Orchestra, and the college's Margaret Wileman Society use the space on a regular basis. There is also a programme of ad hoc student recitals and concerts, including by the college choir which incorporates students and fellows of the college. Hughes Hall Boat Club
644-482: The Contemporary Review , as well as Flying Leaves from East and West ; the latter, perhaps, of all her books the one best known to American readers. The work which secured for Pfeiffer her highest fame as a poet was the volume of Sonnets which came out in 1887. Flowers of the night , a collection of sonnets published in 1889 after the death of her husband, dealt with themes of grief and consolation as well as
690-446: The 125th anniversary of its foundation in 2010: 52°12′03″N 0°07′57″E / 52.2009°N 0.1325°E / 52.2009; 0.1325 ( Hughes Hall ) Colleges of the University of Cambridge The University of Cambridge is composed of 31 colleges in addition to the academic departments and administration of the central university. Until the mid-19th century, both Cambridge and Oxford comprised
736-732: The Club has been recipient of the Pegasus Cup , awarded to the most successful college boat club competing in the May Bumps each year, three times (2007, 2009, 2014). The women's first crew won blades for the first time after the demerger from Lucy Cavendish in the Lent Bumps 2019. Members of Hughes Hall have regularly been selected for the Cambridge team in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race . In 2015,
782-548: The academic domains encompassed by the University of Cambridge. The college is housed in a number of 19th- and 20th-century buildings at a main site adjacent to Fenner's , the Cambridge University Cricket Club ground, and between the City Centre and the railway station. In 1878 the University of Cambridge established a Teachers' Training Syndicate to develop a training curriculum in education for students of
828-402: The academic posts in the university, with the majority of Cambridge academics being a fellow of a college in addition to their faculty/departmental role. Fellows may therefore hold college positions in addition to their academic posts at the university: these include roles such as Tutor (responsible for pastoral support), Director of Studies (responsible for academic oversight of students taking
874-404: The accommodation for undergraduates and postgraduates at the university. At the undergraduate level they have responsibility for admitting students to the university, providing pastoral support, and organising elements of their tuition, though lectures and examinations are organised by the faculties and departments of the central university. All degrees are awarded by the university itself, not
920-477: The admission of staff members, allowing only women to become fellows of the college. Murray Edwards does not place this restriction on fellows. The Cambridge and Oxford colleges have served as an architectural inspiration for Collegiate Gothic architecture, used by a number of American universities including Princeton University , Cornell University , University of Chicago , and Washington University in St. Louis since
966-487: The boat was Cambridge University Boat Club rower Grant Bitler and Spare-Pair rower Harry Baxter. The Boat Club houses its six rowing shells in the Emmanuel College boathouse. Hughes Hall holds a May Ball each year, often with a global or international theme. The college's head was titled as "Principal" until 1973, and subsequently as "President". Histories of the college were written in its centenary in 1985, and
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#17328767575821012-405: The building's west-facing windows and terraces. The college also owns a number of houses in the nearby area which provide additional student accommodation. In 2014 the college acquired the former Cambridge University gym building on Gresham Road, which is across the cricket ground from the main college site, to develop as a new facility—construction began on the site in 2015. The main college site
1058-467: The bulk of it, in accordance with the wishes of her husband, who had left her all his wealth, went to promote women's education and to establish an orphanage for girls. The orphanage had already been built on their property at her death, but following a lawsuit against the estate, the property was broken up and sold in 1892, including "the Orphanage ... a brick-built cottage". Of the main bequest, £3,131
1104-526: The city. A short walk from the college is the Mill Road Cemetery where a number of the university's renowned historic figures, including astronomer James Challis , Isaac Newton 's editor Percival Frost , and historian John Seeley are buried. Hughes Hall is the nearest of the university's colleges to Cambridge railway station and to the main city centre arrival-departure point for long-distances coaches at Parkside . The most direct access route from
1150-565: The college accommodates study in the wide range of studies taught in the university. The college is one of the most international Cambridge colleges, with its students representing over 60 nationalities. In November 2019, Prince Andrew resigned as the honorary fellow of Hughes Hall amid the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. The college's main building, known as the Wileman Building, was designed by architect William Fawcett and built in 1895. It
1196-410: The college into the centre of Cambridge for cyclists and pedestrians is across Parker's Piece , an open park where the rules of football were first codified (1848). Students and fellows of the college take part in research and study across the full spectrum of the University of Cambridge's fields of activity. Hughes Hall is known for its international and egalitarian ethos, the college does not have
1242-455: The college library, social areas and study spaces, and various college administrative offices. Next door to the Wileman Building is Wollaston Lodge, a symmetrical early-20th-century building in buff brick, designed by Edward Schroeder Prior , that provides further student accommodation. More recent buildings on the college site, all of which provide accommodation and other facilities for students, include Chancellor’s Court, inaugurated in 1992 by
1288-694: The colleges to be distinguished into two groups according to foundation date: The oldest college is Peterhouse , founded in 1284, and the newest is Robinson , founded in 1977. Homerton , which was first founded in the eighteenth century as a dissenting academy (and later teacher training college), attained full college status in 2010. All 16 of the "old" colleges and 7 of the 15 "new" ones admit both male and female students as both undergraduates and postgraduates, without any age restrictions. Eight colleges restrict entry by sex, or by age of undergraduates, or admit only postgraduates: No colleges are all-male, although most originally were. Darwin , founded in 1964,
1334-542: The colleges, and all students study for the same course regardless of which college they attend. For postgraduate students, research is conducted centrally in the faculties, departments and other university-affiliated research centres, though the colleges provide a central social and intellectual hub for students. Colleges provide a range of facilities and services to their members in addition to accommodation, including: catering, library facilities, extracurricular societies, and sporting teams. Much of sporting life at Cambridge
1380-428: The development of her powers. Pfeiffer was a prolific writer, publishing several books and compilations of poems. Gerard's Monument (1878) secured for Pfeiffer a place among English poets. A time of happy activity now succeeded. Pfeiffer became an enthusiastic, though temperate, advocate of women's claims. She introduced into London society her graceful "Greek Dress." Together with her husband, she gathered round her
1426-493: The disadvantageous legal position of women. They possessed a deep pathetic interest, independent of their intrinsic merit. In the loss of her husband, the heaviest sorrow fell on the poet. The poems were the product of nights of insomnia , brought on by having continued anxiety, the anguish of which they in some measure relieved. After reading Charles Darwin 's Descent of Man (1871), Pfeiffer wrote to Darwin to question his description of sexual selection ; she took issue with
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1472-598: The humane sympathies which characterize her writings. It is from her father, who had many of the gifts and qualities of genius, that she derived her imaginative tendencies. Living far away from any town, the instruction and reading of Emily Davis was desultory. Following the financial collapse of her grandfather's bank in 1831, Pfeiffer's family lacked the resources to send her to school, but her father, Thomas Richard Davis, encouraged her to paint and write poetry. In 1842 she published her first book, The holly branch, an album for 1843 . In 1850 she married Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer,
1518-433: The idea that birds had sufficient aesthetic sophistication to select their partners based on beauty. Instead, Pfeiffer thought it plausible that birds selected partners that they found aesthetically fascinating or alluring. Darwin agreed that Pfeiffer's use of the term "fascination" was appropriate to describe the mechanism by which sexual selection functioned. Pfeiffer left some of her property to her niece and sisters, but
1564-507: The late nineteenth century. There are also several theological colleges in the city of Cambridge (for example Ridley Hall , Wesley House , Westcott House and Westminster College ) that are affiliated with the university through the Cambridge Theological Federation . These colleges, while not officially part of the University of Cambridge, operate programmes that are either validated by or are taught on behalf either of
1610-478: The main college building to this day. One of the first matriculants, Molly Thomas, recounted the experience of the first class of students in A London Girl of the 1880s , published under her married name, M.V. Hughes . Following recognition of full membership of the university for women in 1947, the college became a recognized institution of the university in 1949 and was renamed Hughes Hall in honour of its first principal. The college became an approved foundation of
1656-531: The men's team included three members of Hughes Hall (Jasper Holst, Ben Ruble, Henry Hoffstot ), and the women's boat was coxed by a member of the college (Rosemary Ostfeld). Henry Hoffstot also appeared for Cambridge in the Race in 2014. In 2019, two members of the Cambridge Blue Crew were present in the men's first crew for May Bumps, including Cambridge University Boat Club President Dara Alizadeh. Also present in
1702-543: The student population comprises individuals aged 21 and above who are studying undergraduate degree courses at the university. Hughes Hall was founded in the 19th century as the Cambridge Training College for Women with the purpose of providing a college of the university dedicated to training women graduates for the teaching profession. Since then it has enlarged and expanded to support a community of students and researchers, both male and female, working in all
1748-693: The then Chancellor of the University, the Duke of Edinburgh , and the Centenary Building, which opened in 1997. In 2005 Hughes opened a new residential, dining, and meeting building, the Fenner's Building, which is beside and overlooks the university cricket ground, also named Fenner's. It is possible to see the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church —the tallest church spire in Cambridge—from
1794-500: The university in 1985, and received a royal charter marking its full college status in 2006. The college's first male students arrived in 1973, making Hughes Hall the first of the all-female colleges to admit men, and from that time students began to study a wider range of affiliated post-graduate degrees. Student numbers gradually increased in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, Hughes Hall has about 700 graduate students and around 200 undergraduates, all students are "mature" (aged over 21), and
1840-604: The university intending to become teachers. Hughes Hall was established in 1885 as a college for women graduate students taking the Teacher Training curriculum. Key amongst its early supporters and founders were Rev. G. F. Browne , fellow of St Catharine's College , Miss Frances Buss , headmistress of the North London Collegiate School , Miss Anne Clough , first principal of Newnham College , and Professor James Ward , fellow of Trinity College . The college
1886-622: The university or of Anglia Ruskin or Durham Universities. Most colleges are led by a Master , even when the Master is female. However, there are some exceptions, listed below. Girton College has always had a Mistress, even though male candidates have been able to run for the office since 1976. Also see List of current heads of University of Cambridge colleges . The above list does not include several former colleges that no longer exist. These include: Emily Jane Pfeiffer Emily Jane Pfeiffer (26 November 1827 – 23 January 1890, née Davis )
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1932-493: Was a Welsh poet and philanthropist. She supported women's suffrage and higher education for women, as well as producing feminist poems. Pfeiffer was born Montgomeryshire , but spent much of her early life in Oxfordshire . She was the granddaughter of a banker, but her grandfather's bank collapsed in 1831 and her family could not afford a school education for her. She published her first poetry book in 1842. In 1850, she married
1978-617: Was a volume of Poems containing some 30 sonnets, which at once established the reputation of the writer as a sonneteer. Glan Alark succeeded, and after that Quarterman's Grace . In little more than a year appeared Ender the Aspens , shortly to be followed by Songs and Sounds . In 1884 she issued The Rhyme of the Lady of the Rock . Between these volumes of poetry Pfeiffer wrote her book on Women and Work , various essays on this and other subjects, published in
2024-546: Was founded as the Cambridge Training College for Women, and it began with 14 students in a small house in Newnham called Crofton Cottage. The first principal was a graduate of Newnham College, Elizabeth Phillips Hughes (1851-1925), who was in post from 1885 to 1899. In 1895, the college moved to a purpose-built building, designed by architect William Fawcett, overlooking Fenner's cricket ground - which continues to be
2070-591: Was opened by Liberal politician George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon . The building is Grade II listed , red brick in Neo-Dutch style, and has a notable terracotta porch. One wing of the Wileman Building is named the Pfeiffer Wing, after husband and wife Jurgen Edward Pfeiffer and Emily Jane Pfeiffer who funded much of the construction cost as part of their mission to support and develop women's education. The building, and its more modern wings, contains student rooms,
2116-434: Was the first mixed college, while in 1972 Churchill , Clare and King's colleges were the first previously all-male colleges to admit women, whilst King's formerly only accepted students from Eton College . The last all-male college to become mixed was Magdalene , in 1988. In 1973 Hughes Hall became the first all-female college to admit men, and Girton first admitted men in 1979. Newnham also places restrictions on
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