"Manners Makyth Man"
I had a chance to return to New College during my recent June trip to Oxford. This was the original quadrangle from the original 1379 foundation with the chapel and hall on the right. This is personally a very special place for me: I took my confirmation from the Bishop of Winchester in the chapel. I was able to show my kids the old college grounds on this trip. Being the California teens/tweens they are, they were visibly underwhelmed (but maybe that is because they grew up with an old print of this quadrangle hanging in the hallway). Also, it was painfully hot throughout England this month. I was in town to give a lecture. I realized that this was my twenty-fifth year since Matriculation as a student. I found this old photo: In full subfusc academic dress before Matriculation, 2001.
