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St. Catherine's College
is one of the colleges of the
University of Oxford
. It is commonly referred to as "Catz". The college was founded in 1962, but its origins are older. In 1862, a "Delegacy for Unattached Students" was formed in Oxford. Students could join the Delegacy to become members of the University without being members of a college. Many students could not afford the cost of belonging to a college. The Delegacy came to be called "St. Catharine's [sic.] Club" after the name of the building at which its members met. In 1931, the Delegacy was officially renamed "St. Catherine's Society".
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The Society obtained authority to become a full college in 1956. It purchased land from
Merton College
and built a modernist campus designed by Danish architect
Arne Jacobsen
. The College opened in 1962. It first admitted women students in 1974.
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