Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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| Full name | Emmanuel College |
| Motto | - |
| Named after | Immanuel |
| Previous names | - |
| Established | 1584 |
| Sister College(s) | Exeter College |
| Master | The Lord Wilson of Dinton |
| Location | Regent Street |
| Undergraduates | 494 |
| Postgraduates | 98 |
| Homepage | Boatclub |
Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay. Mildmay, a Puritan, originally intended Emmanuel to be a college of training for Protestant preachers to rival the successful Catholic theological schools that had trained Dominican friars for years. Emmanuel still has a few theological students, but has broadened itself to include students of a wide variety of subjects, and opened its doors to women in 1979.
Emmanuel graduates had a large involvement in the settling of North America. Of the first 100 university graduates in New England, one-third were graduates of Emmanuel College. Harvard University, the first college in North America, was named after John Harvard (B.A., 1632), who was an Emmanuel graduate.
Other alumni of Emmanuel include:
Emmanuel College is also noted as the home of a wide variety of duck species, including the Mallard, the Carolina, the Mandarin, the Pintail, the Tufted, and the Wigeon. The more exotic species were donated to the college by a former Master as a gift to the college at the beginning of his term. There is also a fine example of a Chinese plane tree in the College grounds.
Emmanuel College, or 'Emma' as it is known throughout the University, attracts large numbers of undergraduate applications due to its reputation as being a 'friendly college' (although several other colleges also claim this title). Emmanuel topped the Tompkins Table in 2003, 2004 and 2006, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results. Emmanuel has ranked among the top 5 in the table for at least the last 7 years (2000-2006) and during that time period has taken the top position on three occasions.
It is also one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with an estimated financial endowment of £162m (2005).
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[edit] Civil Partnerships
In February 2006, Rev. Jeremy Caddick, the Dean of Emmanuel College, announced that Emmanuel's chapel would be open to the blessing of same-sex civil partnerships - becoming the first in the Church of England to do so. Emmanuel's chapel is not under the formal jurisdiction of the local Church of England bishop, and did not have to obey a House of Bishops ruling against such blessings. Only members and alumni of the college may be blessed in this way. The decision was supported both by the College council and the students' union.
[edit] Students' Union
The Emmanuel College Students' Union (ECSU) provides a bar, common room and funding for sports and other societies, as well as acting as the channel of communication between the students and the College.
The daily business of ECSU is managed by the Executive, or 'Exec', members of which have specific responsibilities. The Exec is elected on a yearly basis at the end of Michaelmas Term.
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[edit] External links
- Emmanuel College website
- Emmanuel College Students' Union
- Events Happening at Emmanuel College
- Emmanuel College Middle Combination Room (MCR)
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