Talk:Jesus College, Cambridge/Archive 1

Comment
Does Jesus College own Jesus Green? And if so, why don't they extend their College to the river... it would be so much nicer!?

Jesus Green
The College used to own the green but If I remember correctly they gave the land to the council as the upkeep costs were too high, on another note the college used to own Christ's Pieces not Christ's College, strange as it wasn't Called Jesus' Pieces which would have been much funnier

Choirs
I have added the chapel choirs.

Daniel Hyde
links to the wrong daniel hyde
 * Thanks, I have removed the link. --Malcolmxl5 20:35, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Lead section
Hi, I trimmed the lead down as some of the content felt more appropriate in a history section which this article was lacking. (Following WP:Lead the first section should be a summary of the article's content.) Aloneinthewild (talk) 20:32, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

Name
Am I missing something - the formal name of the College in the lead para does not include any dedication to 'Jesus', so why is it called that? Suthringa (talk) 09:27, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Now there is a sentence in the first paragraph of the article, to answer this question. The sentence says "'Its common name comes from the name of its Chapel, Jesus Chapel.'". The sentence is the last sentence of the first paragraph -- ("as of" this version of the article, which is dated "14:02, 19 January 2014").
 * Actually, there was already a sentence saying "'Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.'" present in the article a long time ago; e.g., in this version of the article, which is the "Revision as of 18:57, 9 January 2009".  That sentence was in the lede of the article then, but (at that time), not in the first paragraph. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 06:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, there was already a sentence saying "'Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.'" present in the article a long time ago; e.g., in this version of the article, which is the "Revision as of 18:57, 9 January 2009".  That sentence was in the lede of the article then, but (at that time), not in the first paragraph. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 06:27, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Error (?) in new row of table of "notable alumni"
The table at the top of the Notable alumni section of the article has a recently added row for Stephanie Theobald (currently the last row -- way down at the bottom).

I think the years entered reflect some misunderstanding. Aren't they supposed to be the years of birth and death, or (in the case of a living person) the year of birth and a "blank" - ? -

The years shown in all other rows of the table in the "Notable alumni" section, seem to stick to that pattern.

However, the years shown for Stephanie Theobald are "1985" and "1989"! That seems to indicate that the person who entered those years ("1985" and "1989") probably thought that the 2nd column was for the year of matriculation, and that the 3rd column was for the year of graduation.

(That's wrong!, isn't it?)

Hence, IMHO the row of the table for Stephanie Theobald should be changed. According to the article about Stephanie Theobald, it says that Stephanie Theobald was "(born 29 August 1966)". And, since it does not say anything about Stephanie Theobald's death, nor year of death, nor age at death, it seems to be implying that Stephanie Theobald is still living.

Therefore, IMHO in the row of the table for Stephanie Theobald, the 2nd column should contain "1966" ["year of birth"] instead of "1985", and the 3rd column should be blank (that is, it should contain ["   "] -- [for "year of death"] instead of "1989").

(right?) Any advice? or other "comments"? Thank you. --Mike Schwartz (talk) 07:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC)

Entrance
I always understood that the derivation of 'chimney' was cheminée rather than chemin. --Davercox (talk) 12:57, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

Name redux
From the lede:
 * Its common name comes from the name of its chapel, Jesus Chapel.

That links helpfully to the chapel section of this article, which says:
 * The chapel was also used as the parish church of St Radegund. [...] When the College took over the precincts during the 15th century, the parish was renamed after the college as Jesus parish...

So, apparently the college is called Jesus because the chapel was called Jesus; and the chapel was called Jesus because the college was called Jesus?

Can anyone clarify? TSP (talk) 13:43, 3 February 2021 (UTC)