Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure features a number of fictional 'Christminster' colleges, a thinly fictionalized version of Oxford:
- Biblioll College
- Sepulchre College
- Rubric College
- Oldgate College
- Sarcophagus College
- Cardinal College
- Crozier College
- Tudor College
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“Beneath the sun’s rays our shadow is our comrade;
When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees.
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