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18-575: For more than 30 years after the football team moved out, Cartier Field remained the home of Notre Dame's baseball and track and field teams. In 1962, the original Cartier Field was replaced by a quadrangle adjoining the Memorial Library , which opened in 1963, and a new facility named Cartier Field was opened east of Notre Dame Stadium. Since 2008, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team has held outdoor practices at

36-633: A Palladian form around three sides of the Lawn , a huge grassy expanse. Later, some American college and university planners imitated the Jeffersonian plan, the Oxbridge idea, Beaux-Arts forms, and other models. All five barracks at The Citadel (military college) feature quadrangles with red-and-white squares (the colors of the South Carolina battle flag), which are used for formations by

54-431: A collective term, Oxbridge is often used as shorthand for characteristics the two institutions share: The word Oxbridge may also be used pejoratively: as a descriptor of social class (referring to the professional classes who dominated the intake of both universities at the beginning of the twentieth century), as shorthand for an elite that "continues to dominate Britain's political and cultural establishment" and

72-408: A large building (or several smaller buildings). The word is probably most closely associated with college or university campus architecture, but quadrangles are also found in other buildings such as palaces . Most quadrangles are open-air, though a few have been roofed over (often with glass), to provide additional space for social meeting areas or coffee shops for students. The word quadrangle

90-490: A parental attitude that "continues to see UK higher education through an Oxbridge prism", or to describe a "pressure-cooker" culture that attracts and then fails to support overachievers "who are vulnerable to a kind of self-inflicted stress that can all too often become unbearable" and high-flying state school students who find "coping with the workload very difficult in terms of balancing work and life" and "feel socially out of [their] depth". The Sutton Trust maintains that

108-500: A tie against Great Lakes Navy in 1918, the streak would have been 79 consecutive contests). In terms of unbeaten streaks, the Irish were undefeated at home for 23 years and 93 contests, from 1905 to 1928. Quadrangle (architecture) In architecture , a quadrangle (or colloquially, a quad ) is a space or a courtyard , usually rectangular (square or oblong) in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of

126-479: The Ancient History conference now known as AMPAH . Doxbridge is another example of this, referring to Durham , Oxford and Cambridge. Doxbridge was also used for an annual inter-collegiate sports tournament between some of the colleges of Durham, Oxford, Cambridge and York . Woxbridge is the name of the annual conference between the business schools of Warwick , Oxford and Cambridge. When

144-474: The University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge "recruit" disproportionately from eight schools ( Westminster School , Eton College , Hills Road Sixth Form College , St Paul's School , Peter Symonds College , St Paul's Girls' School , King's College School , and Magdalen College School ). They examined published admissions data from 2015 to 2017 and found that, out of the 19,851 places during

162-555: The University of St Andrews topped the 2023 UK universities ranking in The Guardian , the top three institutions were labelled Stoxbridge to reflect the new order. Thackeray's Pendennis , which introduced the term Oxbridge , also introduced Camford as another combination of the university names – "he was a Camford man and very nearly got the English Prize Poem" – but this term has never achieved

180-431: The 1899 season before the field was dedicated) with their two losses coming against Wabash in 1905, and Carnegie Tech in 1928, which happened to be the last match football game played on the field. During this 29-year stretch, the Irish also recorded some of the longest home winning streaks in the history of college football, with 40 consecutive wins from 1907 to 1918, and 38 consecutive wins from 1919 to 1927 (if not for

198-875: The Corps of Cadets. Quadrangles are also found in traditional Kerala houses ( Naalukettu ) and is known as the Nadumittam ("Middle Space"). Oxbridge Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge , the two oldest, wealthiest, and most famous universities in the United Kingdom . The term is used to refer to them collectively, in contrast to other British universities, and more broadly to describe characteristics reminiscent of them, often with implications of superior social or intellectual status or elitism . Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago,

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216-558: The LaBar Football Practice Fields and indoor practices at Meyo Field in the Loftus Center until 2019. Since 2019, the team has moved indoor practices to the newly constructed Irish Athletic Center. It was named after Warren Antoine Cartier , an 1887 civil engineering graduate and former member of the football team who purchased 10 acres (4.0 ha) and donated it to the university for establishment of

234-472: The field. He also paid for furnishing the lumber required to enclose the field with fencing and construct a grandstand. The Irish entertained many notable people on the athletic field by allowing them kicking drills or other activities. Babe Ruth visited the field in 1926, and Jack Dempsey underwent kicking drills in 1936. The Fighting Irish would officially amass a 117–2–6 record at Cartier Field (with an additional three to five wins and one loss coming in

252-501: The idea of a college was well established and benefactors or founders wished to create more monumental buildings. Although architectonically analogous, for historical reasons quads in the colleges of the University of Cambridge are always referred to as courts (such as the Trinity Great Court ). In North America, Thomas Jefferson 's design for the University of Virginia centered the housing and academic buildings in

270-482: The term Oxbridge is relatively recent. In William Makepeace Thackeray 's novel Pendennis , published in 1850, the main character attends the fictional Boniface College, Oxbridge . According to the Oxford English Dictionary , the first recorded use of the word was by Virginia Woolf , who, citing William Makepeace Thackeray , referenced it in her 1929 essay " A Room of One's Own ." The term

288-404: The three years, the eight schools accounted for 1,310, whereas 2,900 other schools with historically few admissions to Oxbridge accounted for 1,220. Other portmanteaus have been coined that extend the term Oxbridge , with different degrees of recognition: The term Loxbridge is also used referring to the golden triangle of London, Oxford, and Cambridge. It was also adopted as the name of

306-567: Was originally synonymous with quadrilateral , but this usage is now relatively uncommon. Some modern quadrangles resemble cloister gardens of medieval monasteries , called garths , which were usually square or rectangular, enclosed by covered arcades or cloisters. However, it is clear from the oldest examples (such as Mob Quad ) which are plain and unadorned with arcades, that the medieval colleges at Oxford and Cambridge were creating practical accommodation for college members. Grander quadrangles that look like cloisters came later, once

324-716: Was used in the Times Educational Supplement in 1957, and the following year in Universities Quarterly . When expanded, the universities are almost always referred to as "Oxford and Cambridge", the order in which they were founded. A notable exception is Tokyo's Cambridge and Oxford Society ; this probably arises from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905. In addition to being

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