A little bit of history from my college...wow do I feel young!
"Although a College in the strict sense only since 1957, the history of St Edmund Hall goes back to the thirteenth century, for it is the sole survivor of the medieval Halls that provided undergraduates with accommodation and tuition before the Colleges began to do so. It can claim to be "the oldest academical society for the education of undergraduates" (A. B. Emden) in any University.
It takes its name from St Edmund of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury (1234-40), who traditionally resided and taught in a house at the western end of the present front quadrangle when he was a Regent Master in the Arts, probably in the 1190s." (from http://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/index.php?section=26)
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