The Oxford Guide - Differences between Version 3 and Version 2 of Pembroke College

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To the left of Old Quad is the McGowin library, donated by the McGowin family of Alabama in 1974.
To the left of Old Quad is the McGowin library,generously donated by the McGowin family of Alambama in 1974. The McGowin's are collectors of art, educators, and philanthropists in the United States and around the world.
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Pembroke is a relatively small college specialising mainly in rowing and alcohol abuse.

There are three quads; the one when you go in is Old Quad, which mainly contains the JCR and the MCR, college offices and teaching rooms. The one to the right is Chapel Quad. This contains the hall, which is the thing which looks like a chapel, and the chapel, which is the thing which looks like a hall.

Around the back of Chapel Quad is the North Quad, which contains most of the accomodation; some freshers and lucky finalists are put up in the MacMillan building to the west end of North Quad and up the steps, but most folk are in the converted houses on Pembroke Street. There is a street running through North Quad, Beef Lane, which Pembroke bought outright. I don't know if it's a right of way or just as a courtesy, but it's opened on Sundays for people going through to St. Ebbe's Church and St. Aldate's Church.

To the left of Old Quad is the McGowin library,generously donated by the McGowin family of Alambama in 1974. The McGowin's are collectors of art, educators, and philanthropists in the United States and around the world.

The other finalists are in the Geoffrey Arthur Building (call it the GAB, and don't call it the Jeffrey Archer Building, we've heard that one) which is down Abingdon Road and by the river.

The atmosphere at Pembroke's generally chilled out, although JCR/MCR relations were really very bad when I was there a couple of years ago, and emphasis is explicitly placed on extra-curricular activities by tutorial staff. Not the place to go if you want a first, but will rather turn out "rounded individuals". For a long time in financial trouble, although it's probably got out of it by now, Pembroke recently got in the press for appearing to offer places to those prepared to make significant donations. Of course, all the colleges do it, but Pembroke had the misfortune to do it to an undercover reporter. Oh well.


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