Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/3

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that before Charles Aitken installed electric lighting, the Tate Gallery (pictured) was cleared of visitors on dark and foggy days?
 * ... that in 1964 J. N. L. Baker, Bursar of Jesus College, became the first member of the university to hold the post of Lord Mayor of Oxford?
 * ... that although George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin ' s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
 * ... that "many-sided" priest Father Patrick McLaughlin promoted links between the church and the world of literature by staging plays, and by commissioning lectures from T. S. Eliot and Dorothy L. Sayers?
 * ... that in 1612 Jewish teacher Jacob Barnet was arrested and imprisoned by officials of the university for changing his mind about being baptized?

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 * 1) Recent additions/2008/October
 * 2) Recent additions/2007/August
 * 3) Recent additions 152
 * 4) Recent additions/2008/March
 * 5) Recent additions/2010/June