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Oxford Blue colour #002147. Oxford Blue is the official colour of the University of Oxford. [1] The official Oxford branding guidelines set its definition as Pantone 282, equivalent to the hex code #002147. [2] With a hue code of 212, this colour is a very dark tone of azure.
The blue plaques are publicly visible, and are intended to give everyone an insight into chemistry's relevance to everyday lives. [1] CLS plaques for the first few years of the scheme (begun in 2001) were rectangular, black lettering on a steel background, but later plaques are hexagonal, white lettering on a blue background.
[4] [5] [6] Oxford went into the race as reigning champions, having won the 1978 race after Cambridge sank. Cambridge, however, led overall with 68 victories to Oxford's 55 (excluding the "dead heat" of 1877). [7] The race was sponsored for the third consecutive year by Ladbrokes. [8] Former Oxford Blue Ronnie Howard was the umpire for the race ...
Oxford's coach was Olympic rower Hugh "Jumbo" Edwards who had spectacularly collapsed in the 1926 race, and returned to the Oxford Blue Boat for the 1930 race. [8] The race was umpired by George Douglas Clapperton who had coxed Oxford in the 1923 and 1924 races. [9] [10] He later umpired in the 1967 boat race. [9]
The wave packet linking the books indicates technology. The three cinquefoils and the partial red background of the shield reference the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde and the blue background modern Scotland. The crown signifies both the ancient kingdom and a royal connection through the grant of royal status to then Royal Technical College in ...
The Oxford crew featured three Old Blues, Chris Mahoney, Mike Diserens, and Boris Rankov, who was rowing in his third University Boat Race. [12] In J.S. Palmer and A.G. Phillips, Cambridge's crew contained two Blues returning from the previous year's race. [6]
Princeton University's store, featuring the school's orange and black colors. The tradition of school colors appears to have started in England in the 1830s. The University of Cambridge chose Cambridge blue for the Boat Race against the University of Oxford in 1836, [2] Westminster School have used pink as their color since a boat race against Eton School in 1837, [3] and Durham University ...
The University of Oxford is the setting for numerous works of fiction. Oxford was mentioned in fiction as early as 1400 when Chaucer, in Canterbury Tales, referred to a "Clerk [student] of Oxenford". [312] Mortimer Proctor argues the first campus novel was The Adventures of Oxymel Classic, Esq; Once an Oxford Scholar (1768). [313]