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————————Oxford teaches you something out of nothing, Cambridge teaches you something out of nothing [repost] Source: etang has a long history and many legends. Oxford is indeed related to cows.

Legend has it that cattle waded through the water in ancient times, hence the name Oxford.

Cambridge is indeed related to bridges. Legend has it that in the 1st century AD, when the Roman Empire conquered England, the Roman commander ordered soldiers to build a bridge and set up camp on the west bank of a river.

Since the military camp was near the bridge, people called the bridge the Camp Bridge, which has been followed to this day and became the current place name of Cambridge.

Oxbridge in English refers to Oxford and Cambridge.

In 1167, King Henry II of England had a quarrel with King Philip II of France. The King of England was so angry that he recalled the British scholars who were studying at the University of Paris and banned them from going to the University of Paris again.

Another theory is that the King of France drove British scholars back to England from the University of Paris in anger.

In any case, these scholars returned from Paris and gathered in Oxford to engage in the teaching and research of scholastic philosophy.

So people began to regard Oxford as a "general university", which was actually the predecessor of Oxford University.

The reason why scholars gathered in Oxford was because Henry II built one of his palaces in Oxford at that time. The scholars came here to obtain the protection of the king.

In 1168, Oxford University was founded.

In 1209, a student in Oxford accidentally killed a woman in the town while practicing archery, triggering a riot. Some teachers and students were implicated and fled to Cambridge.

After that, some scholars from other places also came here because of its reputation, and a new university was gradually established, which was the University of Cambridge.

Open universities without walls Oxford University and Cambridge University are different from Chinese universities. The city and the university are integrated, and the streets pass through the campus.

Not only does the university have no gates and walls, it also doesn’t even have a formal signboard, which exactly reflects the low-key, reserved character of the British.

The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge have adopted the method of jointly running independent colleges since their establishment, and they still maintain this tradition today.

There are currently 39 colleges in Oxford and 31 in Cambridge.

Each college is composed of 300-500 teachers and students, engaged in teaching and scientific research in different disciplines, with basically complete liberal arts, sciences and engineering.

The buildings of the university are basically composed of each college.

The colleges are composed of quadrangles composed of green lawns and surrounded by medieval earth-yellow Gothic buildings.

And most colleges have colleges within colleges.

Some colleges even have rivers, lakes, flowers, grass, insects, fish, birds and animals.

Chinese translates the English word college as "academy", which probably comes from the four "courtyards" of Oxford and Cambridge.

Because there are many churches attached to the university and there are spiers everywhere in the city, Oxford is also known as the "Tower City".

In terms of architecture, Cambridge is even more advanced. Many colleges are neatly arranged along the Cam River, especially the Royal College Church in Cambridge, which was built in the Middle Ages. It is magnificent and its style is comparable to the famous Canterbury Cathedral in England.

However, although Oxford and Cambridge look very old from the outside, they are very modern from the inside.

In the university science area, you can see advanced equipment in various fields such as engineering science, nuclear physics, biology, etc.

The equipment at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory is even more amazing, and seven Nobel Prize winners have been produced there.

There is a sea of ??books everywhere and learning everywhere. There are 104 libraries in Oxford. The largest of them, the Bodleian Library, was opened in 1602, 150 years earlier than the library of the British Museum. It currently has a collection of more than 6 million books and a huge underground library.

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Cambridge also has nearly 100 libraries, with a collection of more than 5 million books, and annual book funding of about 3 million pounds (equivalent to more than 40 million yuan).

According to the decision of the British Book Council in 1611, any book published by any publishing house in the United Kingdom must provide a free copy to the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, and this remains the case today.

There are almost as many bookstores in Oxford as there are libraries, with more than 100 large and small. Blackwel, the world's largest academic bookstore, is located here.

This century-old store was founded in 1897 and is located opposite the Bodleian Library. While selling books, it is also engaged in publishing.

From the outside, this bookstore only has three small stores, but the three floors of the bookstore are connected to the basement. There is also a second-hand bookstore on the top floor. The number and types of books are so large that you need to use signage to find books.

It has 78 chain stores in the UK, including more than 10 branches in Oxford alone, which deal in books and audio-visual materials in categories such as art and literature.

There are also many branches in other countries.

And now through the Internet, readers can quickly search, order and purchase books, and enjoy first-class international services.

On June 8, 1994, U.S. President Clinton returned to his alma mater, Oxford University, to attend the awarding ceremony for honorary academicians, and made a special trip to this bookstore to buy books.