Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/2

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that the members of the Council of Keble College, Oxford (council member Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon pictured) had power to move the college away from Oxford?
 * ... that British lawyer and activist of the Indian independence movement Eardley Norton was instrumental in establishing an UK-chapter of the Indian National Congress?
 * ... that in 1996, the University of Glasgow renamed its Chair of Drama after former professor James Fullarton Arnott?
 * ... that while Nicholas Fitzherbert was abroad, two priests were arrested in his father's house and hanged, drawn and quartered?
 * ... that the equipment designed by the physicist Gwyn Jones to liquefy small amounts of helium for work at temperatures near absolute zero was made from parts of a motorcycle engine?

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