This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2009) Coordinates: 52°12′13″N 0°7′26.3″E / 52.20361°N 0.123972°E / 52.20361; 0.123972 Colleges of the University of Cambridge Emmanuel College                       College name Emmanuel College Named after Jesus of Nazareth (Emmanuel) Established 1584 Admittance Men and women Master The Lord Wilson of Dinton Undergraduates 465 Graduates 185 Sister college Exeter College, Oxford Location St Andrew's Street (map) College website Emmanuel College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1584 by Sir Walter Mildmay on the site of a Dominican friary. 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 some theological students, but has broadened itself to include students of a wide variety of subjects. Emmanuel College opened its doors to female students in 1979. "Emma", as the college is known throughout the university, attracts large numbers of undergraduate applications owing to its reputation as a "friendly college" (although several other colleges also claim this), and it has the distinction of being the "only College in Cambridge to offer a [free] laundry service".[1] Emmanuel topped the Tompkins Table, which ranks colleges according to end-of-year examination results, in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, and 2010 and was second in 2001, 2002, 2008 and 2009. Emmanuel has been among the top five colleges in each of the last eleven years (2000–2010). The 2010 figures (2009 in brackets) were 69.11% (66.99%) with 33.2% (26.2%) awarded as First Class degrees. Emmanuel is one of the wealthier colleges at Cambridge with an estimated financial endowment of £140m (2008).[2] Contents 1 Notable features 2 College Grace and Thanksgiving 3 Students' Union 4 Sports and Societies in Emmanuel College 5 Civil partnerships 6 Notable alumni 7 See also 8 Notes 9 External links // Notable features Emmanuel's chapel was designed by Christopher Wren in 1677 replacing the original chapel, which became the library (until 1930). There is a large fish pond in the grounds, home of a colony of ducks. Until the late 1990s, these were largely Mallards, but a former Master donated a variety of more exotic duck species, including the Carolina, the Mandarin, the Pintail, the Tufted, and the Wigeon. There is a fine example of an Oriental plane tree in the Fellows' Garden, which is reputed to have lived far longer than is typical of the species. The Fellows' Garden also contains a swimming pool which is one of the oldest bathing pools in Europe. The college also holds a celebrated May Ball biannually, traditionally falling on either the Sunday or Monday of May Week. College Grace and Thanksgiving The following Latin grace is recited before formal dinners at Emmanuel College (Oratio Ante Cibum): Oculi omnium in te sperant, Domine, et tu das escam illorum in tempore opportuno. Aperis tu manum tuam et imples omne animal benedictione. Benedic, Domine, nos et dona tua quae de tua largitate sumus sumpturi; per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen. Translated into English, the Oratio Ante Cibum reads as follows: The eyes of all wait upon thee, O Lord, and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand and fillest every living thing with blessing. Bless us, O Lord and these the gifts which of thy bounty we are about to receive; through Christ our Lord. Amen The following Oratio Post Cibum is sometimes read after dinner: Confiteantur tibi, Domine, omnia opera tua, et sancti tui benedicant te. Agimus tibi gratias, omnipotens Deus, pro universis beneficiis tuis, qui vivis et regnas Deus per omnia saecula saeculorum. Amen. Translated into English, the Orato Post Cibum reads as follows: Let all thy works give thanks to thee. O Lord, and let thy saints bless thee. We give thanks to thee, almighty God, for all thy goodness, who livest and reignest as God for ever and ever. Amen. Students' Union The Emmanuel College Students' Union (ECSU – [1]) provides a shop, a bar, a common room, and funding for sports and other societies. ECSU's Executive Committee is elected on a yearly basis at the end of Michaelmas Term. The individual officers fulfil varying roles, each designed to aid and improve student life within the college. ECSU also acts as a formal channel of communication between the students and the College authorities. Sports and Societies in Emmanuel College A large number of student societies and sports clubs exist at Emmanuel College. Sports include Rowing, Cricket, Rugby , Football, Squash, Netball and more. There are also a whole host of other societies including Emmanuel College Music Society (ECMS), the Christian Union, the Mountaineering Club, the Emmanuel Real Ice Cream Society (ERICS), and the Politics and Economics Society. Students are able to get funding for new societies from Emmanuel College Student union (ECSU). Civil partnerships Emmanuel College chapel In February 2006, the 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. Notable alumni See also Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge 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 The United States, was named after John Harvard (B.A., 1632), who was an Emmanuel graduate. Early Emmanuel men included several translators of the 1611 Authorised Version. Other alumni and members of Emmanuel include: Choudhary Rahmat Ali Charlie Bean John Desmond Bernal Peregrine Bland Malcolm Brenner Henry Cantrell Graham Chapman Alan J. Charig Joe Craig Francis Darwin Simon Davies Umar Bin Muhammad Daudpota Leonard Dawe Gurusaday Dutt Sebastian Faulks Reo Fortune Michael Frayn Graeme Garden Edward Pritchard Gee Edward George Alexander Guttenplan Joseph Hall Richard Holmes Thomas Hooker Jeremiah Horrocks Fred Hoyle[3] Jonathan James-Moore Griff Rhys Jones Tom King F.R. Leavis John Lennox Rory McGrath Alexander Morrison Richard W. Murphy Ronald Norrish Maggie O'Farrell Lawrence Ogilvie Cecil Parkinson C. Northcote Parkinson Steven Poole George Porter Hugo Rifkind Alan Rouse Peter Rubin Stephen Sackur Birbal Sahni William Sancroft Herchel Smith Dan Stevens Stephen Timms Justine Waddell John Wallis Hugh Walpole Thomas Watson Steve Woolgar David Yelland Tim Yeo Benjamin Yeoh Thomas Young Fictional characters who have been said to have gone to Emmanuel include Jonathan Swift's Lemuel Gulliver. It is implied that Sebastian Faulks' eponymous Engleby also matriculated at Emmanuel. See also Category:Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category:Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge List of Organ Scholars Notes ^ http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduates/prospectus/yourlife/ ^ Emmanuel College Accounts 2008 ^ Moore, Patrick (January 2009). "Hoyle, Sir Fred (1915–2001)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/76123. 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