University of Melbourne Colleges - Ormond College, Newman College, Queen's College, Trinity College, Janet Clarke Hall, Medley Hall (Paperback)

Chapters: Ormond College, Newman College, Queen's College, Trinity College, Janet Clarke Hall, Medley Hall, University College, Whitley College, St Mary's College, International House, Graduate House, St Hilda's College. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ormond College is the largest of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne. It is home to about 330 undergraduate, postgraduate and professorial/academic residents. It is also home to the Choir of Ormond College. Ormond College (1879), University of Melbourne Ormond College Clock Tower The University of Melbourne was established by an Act of the Parliament of Victoria in 1853. Seventy-five (quickly reduced to sixty) of the one hundred acres (400,000 m ) of the University site were set aside for residential colleges, to be founded under the auspices of the churches. Ten acres (40,000 m ) each were allotted to the Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches, the remaining area being reserved for sporting facilities. The Anglican Church was the first to accept the offer, and Trinity College opened in 1872. At the end of August 1877, Alexander Morrison, Headmaster of Scotch College and convenor of the Presbyterian Church Assembly's Committee to watch over the land, received a letter from the Director of the Victorian Education Department, proposing that if the Church did not mean to take the land for a College, that it be sold and the proceeds divided, half to the church, and half to the state for University purposes. This spurred Morrison into action. A subscription list was opened, with a target of 10,000; on this list Francis Ormond's name appears against a donation of 3,000. The General Assembly meeting in November 1877 resolved that the Church should immediatel...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1007776