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The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [312] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [313]
The superintendent is voted on and elected by the school board. From 2013 through 2017 the superintendent was Brian Harvey. Harvey graduated from the district in 1990 and worked in the district for 17 years; as a middle and high school teacher, the assistant principal at Oxford High School, and the principal at both Central Elementary and Oxford Middle School.
Its isolated rural site in the town of Oxford was selected as it was a "sylvan exile" that would encourage academic studies. [2] In 1845, residents of Lafayette County donated land west of Oxford for the campus, and, the following year, William Nichols oversaw construction of the Lyceum, two dormitories, and faculty residences. [1]
The Piedmont City Schools athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs. Piedmont High School is a member of the Alabama High School Athletic Association and participates in Class 3A Football, Basketball, Baseball, Wrestling (1A-4A), Golf (Boys 3A, Girls 1A-5A), Volleyball, and indoor, cross country, and outdoor Track. They also have a band: the ...
The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus is partially located in Oxford and partially in University, Mississippi, a census-designated place. [77] The main campus is situated at an altitude of around 500 feet (150 m), and has expanded from one square mile (260 ha) of land to around 1,200 acres (1.9 sq mi; 490 ha).
Oxford's second university, Oxford Brookes University, formerly the Oxford School of Art, then Oxford Polytechnic, based at Headington Hill, was given its charter in 1991 and for ten years has been voted the best new university in the UK. [41] It was named to honour the school's founding principal, John Henry Brookes.
The Oxford School is a British international school in Panama City, Panama. The school, located in Edison Park on Via Transistmica, has over 900 students as of 2015. [1] It serves levels preschool through secondary school. [2] The Oxford School, then a supplementary English language school, opened in 1983 and opened a permanent facility in a ...
Hobson City is a town in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 759. It is included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hobson City became Alabama's first self-governed all-black municipality [2] in 1899 and continues to have an African American majority.