Hertford College
Compact college on a historic lane facing the Bodleian, with a proud Victorian rowing tradition.
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This guide to Hertford College in Oxford goes back to May eighteen eighty-one, when the college's young boat club had a week on the river nobody expected, and its Principal, Henry Boyd, reached for a telegram. It follows the old Magdalen Hall crew that vanished from the races, the new club's crimson and white, and a sarcastic friend at Brasenose. Best heard just inside the front gates, with Catte Street and the Bodleian at your back.
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