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The school still operates Scotland's only helium liquefier. During John Allen's time in St Andrews, the North Haugh site was purchased by the university, where the current building of the school is located. [5] The physics department moved to this location in 1965; the building is now named after John F. Allen.
College Hall, within the 16th-century St Mary's College building. In 1410, a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, offering courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law.
The origins of the University of St Andrews' links with the military can be traced back to the Jacobite risings of 1715 and 1745, when companies of Militia were raised to defend the pro-Hanoverian University and the City of St Andrews against the absolutist Highland Jacobites. In 1859 a committee was formed in St Andrews to form a volunteer ...
The University of St Andrews Students' Association is the organisation which represents the student body of the University of St Andrews. [7] It was founded in 1885 and comprises the students' representative council [ 8 ] and the Student Activities Forum (formerly the Students' Services Council).
Named after the 6th-century Frankish saint Leonard of Noblac, St Leonard's College of the University of St Andrews was founded as 'The College of Poor Clerks of the Church of St Andrews' in 1512 by Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews and John Hepburn, Prior of St Andrews (receiving Papal recognition by proxy in 1545), on the site of St Leonard's Hospital and Church.
Classical scholars of the University of St Andrews (10 P) Pages in category "Academics of the University of St Andrews" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 428 total.
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