Talk:Queens' College, Cambridge

Untitled from IP
The entire introduction needs a complete re drafting. Far too much supplementary information for an introduction. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.248.215 (talk) 09:45, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Citation Needed for Lindsay Ashford being the first woman
Lindsay Ashford Journalist and novelist, the first woman to graduate from Queens' College[5][citation needed]

The reference goes to a 404 page and was the journalist's own website anyway...also there is a woman listed as a graduate earlier in the list, Emily Maitlis.

It's possible, though not under that surname. There was a female student 1980-81 reading a one-year Master's course in Criminology. Being a one-year student, she would have graduated before all the first female undergraduates of 1980. In the table in the article, this "Lindsay Ashford" is chronologically misplaced: to have joined as a postgraduate in the first cohort of women in 1980, she would need a year of birth of around 1959. --Rdhw (talk) 21:54, 6 June 2012 (UTC)

Grace
I never heard it in three years Cantab12 (talk) 13:05, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The Ante Prandium is given before every meal in Hall; the Post Prandium, I think, is somewhat rarer. LegesRomanorum (talk) 20:09, 17 November 2015 (UTC)

Request edit
Hello - the Fellows of Queens' College have spotted an error in the first sentence of the Wiki entry. Queens' is not, first and foremost, a conference centre, but rather one of the oldest Colleges, part of the University of Cambridge (and it occasionally holds conferences out of term time as with the other colleges). May we request that you remove the first sentence and begin with the second sentence - which is factually correct:

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Many thanks for your help and attention. Marisa Crimlis-Brown Communications, Queens' College.


 * Dear Marisa, this has been corrected. Unfortunately we do get useless edits from time to time. I will keep an eye on it happening again Aloneinthewild (talk) 22:14, 19 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Context for outsiders: There is currently (and has been for a while) a bit of tension between college and the JCR (student body) over the use of college facilities such as rooms or catering services for conferences. Some say that the money from this is an important part of the college's income and others say that conferences are disruptive to students. In any case, we can expect further disruption to this page. It may be worth semiprotecting it. --jftsang 21:32, 22 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Apologies, didn't realise it already has been. --jftsang 21:33, 22 May 2016 (UTC)

Queen's or Queens'?
Which one is it? The usage on the page is inconsistent. Py0alb (talk) 14:41, 21 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Its normally Queens', though in its full name its Queen's. I have checked the article however and the usage is not inconsistent at all. The article clearly explains the difference between the short and long names. The only instances of Queen's is when the long name is used or when the move from Queen's to Queens' is being explained, every instance of Queen's is contextualised. Ebonelm (talk) 20:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

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Alumni
The list of alumni includes James Maynard, Fields Medallist. However, James Maynard's Wikipedia page claims that he is a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, being awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Maynard). Which is correct? Haynesta (talk) 15:40, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Both: he was an undergraduate student at, and is thus an alumnus of, Queens' College, Cambridge, and he now works as a fellow at/of St John's College, Oxford. To complicate matters, he was a graduate student at Balliol College, Oxford, and was also a fellow of Merton College, Oxford.  All seems fine with the article on him. ZeroAlpha87 (talk) 15:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)