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Like thesis and suasoria, controversia originated in ancient Greece. [2] It was a rhetorical exercise and is associated with the history of Greek education. [2] An early form of the Roman controversia was described by Seneca as a combination of thesis (propositio) and hypothesis (causa). [3]
Various collaborative online encyclopedias were attempted before the start of Wikipedia, but with limited success. [19] Wikipedia began as a complementary project for Nupedia, a free online English-language encyclopedia project whose articles were written by experts and reviewed under a formal process. [20]
In Cambridge, Churchill College, King's College and Clare College were the first men's colleges to admit women in 1972. [30] Girton had already amended its statutes in 1971 in such a way as to allow the admission of men, should the Governing Body vote in favour at an unspecified date in the future.
Bird's eye view of Queens' College, Cambridge by David Loggan, published in 1690. Queens' College was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou and refounded in 1465 by the rival queen Elizabeth Woodville.
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Fitzwilliam College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. [4]The college traces its origins back to 1869 and the foundation of the Non-Collegiate Students Board, a venture intended to offer academically excellent students of all backgrounds a chance to study at the university.
In early 2009, Cambridge Who's Who was involved in a breach of security. An executive, Harsharan Sethi, discovered that a set of five back up tapes, or electric storage devices, containing confidential financial information of approximately 400,000 members of Cambridge, as well as thousands of Cambridge employees, were missing and unaccounted for.
A 1690 illustration of Emmanuel by David Loggan. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay, Chancellor of the Exchequer to Elizabeth I. [5] The site had been occupied by a Dominican friary until the Dissolution of the Monasteries 45 years earlier, after which the Vice-Chancellor petitioned that the place be given over to the University; his request was refused.