St Paul's College, University of Sydney

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St Paul's College
The University of Sydney
1870s photograph of church-like stone building, with students lying on the grass in front
Common room and dining hall, photographed from the main quadrangle in the 1870s
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Location9 City Road, Camperdown, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates33°53′24″S 151°11′15″E / 33.8899938°S 151.1873733°E / -33.8899938; 151.1873733Coordinates: 33°53′24″S 151°11′15″E / 33.8899938°S 151.1873733°E / -33.8899938; 151.1873733
Full nameSt Paul's College
MottoDeo Patriae Tibi (Latin)
Motto in English"For God, Country and Thyself"
Established1856; 165 years ago (1856)
Named forPaul the Apostle
GenderMale only for undergraduates, co-educational for postgraduates
WardenReverend Dr Ed Loane
DeanAntone Martinho-Truswell
Residents400
Undergraduates294
Postgraduates120
Senior tutorKatie Allan
ChapelRev'd Antony Weiss
CalledPaulines
Websitestpauls.edu.au
Associate DeanHarrison Croker
Junior DeanHarry Forsythe, Henry Watson, Nicholas Comino, Emily Manche, Matthew Newcombe
St Paul's College
St Paul's College, University of Sydney is located in Sydney
St Paul's College, University of Sydney
Location in greater Sydney
Building details
General information
Architectural style
  • Gothic Revival
    (main Early Gothic with some Perpendicular Gothic)
  • Edwardian Gothic Revival
    (Gatekeeper's Lodge)
Technical details
Material
Design and construction
Architect
Renovating team
Renovating firmStephenson & Turner (1947)
New South Wales Heritage Database
(Local Government Register)
Official nameSt Paul's College Group, University of Sydney
TypeLocal environment plan
Designated14 December 2012
Reference no.I52
TypeBuilt
CategoryOther

St Paul's College is an Anglican residential college which is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1856, it is Australia's oldest university college. St Paul's is familiarly referred to as "Paul's", its residents as "Paulines" and its alumni as "Old Paulines". Alumni include prime ministers, deputy prime ministers, federal and state government ministers, High Court of Australia justices, Court of Appeal presidents and justices, Supreme Court chief justices and justices, pioneering surgeons and physicists, Australian of the Year recipients and 29 Rhodes Scholars.

The college has nearly 360 residents, of whom about 260 are undergraduate men; the remainder are postgraduate women and men undertaking further study or holding university positions.[1] In 2019, the college opened Graduate House at St Paul's College, a community of 140 postgraduate students and university academics with its own additional facilities on the grounds.[2] It retains most of its original 7-hectare (18-acre) grant and has its own oval.

History[]

St Paul's was the first university college in Australia.[3] Its development followed an unsuccessful attempt by members of the Anglican Church to incorporate the earlier St James's College within the new University of Sydney, and was led by Sir Alfred Stephen (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales).[4]

The new governing document provides for a college council with 12 fellows, four of whom must be elected Anglican clergy, six elected laymen and two appointed laymen - of which one must be a University of Sydney academic. Fellows serve six-year, renewable terms and are elected by graduates of the college who have spent at least three semesters in residence. The college is an independent body corporate, legally designated as "The Warden and Fellows of St Paul's College".[5]

By this time the college had its own distinct intellectual tradition, foreshadowed by the founders, a liberal Anglicanism which took seriously the challenges involved in combining religious and secular knowledge and in making the English Church useful to the Australian nation. The number of Paulines from this period who are now listed in the Australian Dictionary of Biography is evidence of the way the college was in step with the times.[6]

The original building was designed in Gothic style by English-born architect Edmund Blacket. Blacket was a distinguished ecclesiastical architect; he also designed the main university building and supervised the construction of the Catholic St John's College at the same university.[7][8] Other buildings include a chapel (designed by John Leslie Stephen Mansfield and completed in 1960) and a residential wing designed by Clive Lucas, Stapleton & Partners which opened in 1999.[3]

At the 2010 World University Debating Championship two former Paul's students (Chris Croke and Steve Hind) took the title, winning the final against teams from Oxford, Harvard and the London School of Economics.[9] Since the 1890s, the college has fostered social-justice ideals (as part of the liberal Anglican tradition) and most students are involved at some point in philanthropic activities. During the first decade of the 21st century, half the male Rhodes Scholars from Sydney University have been Paulines. In 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft was named NSW Young Australian of the Year for his work in indigenous education.[9][10]

Early 20th century photo of college buildings, with horse grazing in pasture in foreground
St Paul's College from the edge of its boundary with the university campus at the turn of the 20th century

Heraldry[]

Officially granted by the Earl Marshal in 1961, the college coat of arms displays crossed swords and the Maltese cross to represent St Paul in the official colours of gold and gules. The college's motto, Deo Patriae Tibi, can be translated as "For God, country and thyself."[11]

Academic honours[]

The college boasts a long list of academic honours and its website lists many University Medallists since 2005.[12] Its Rhodes Scholarship list is given below:

  • 1907 – Garnet Vere Portus (1883–1954; in college 1903–04), afterwards cleric, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Adelaide, and radio broadcaster
  • 1908 – Richard Granville Waddy (1885–1974; in college 1905–09), afterwards medical practitioner
  • 1911 – Hugh Kingsley Ward (1887–1972; in college 1909–10), afterwards Professor of Bacteriology, University of Sydney
  • 1915 – Walter Ferguson Crawford (1894–1978; in college 1913–14), afterwards knighted, Governor of Northern Sudan
  • 1920 – Vernon Haddon Treatt (1897–1984; in college 1915–16), afterwards knighted, NSW Minister for Justice and Chief Commissioner for the City of Sydney
  • 1925 – Allan Robert Callaghan (1903–93; in college 1922–24), afterwards knighted and South Australian Director of Agriculture
  • 1931 – David Arthur Garnsey (1909–96; in college 1927–29), afterwards Bishop of Gippsland[13]
  • 1935 – Keith Noel Everal Bradfield (1910–2006; in college 1930–33), afterwards OBE and Civil Aviation Advisor to the Government of Papua New Guinea
  • 1939 – Walter Laurence Hughes (1917–99; in college 1934–38), afterwards Kt, head of an engineering and shipbuilding firm and government adviser
  • 1940 – Basil Holmes Travers (1919–98; in college 1938–39), afterwards Headmaster of Shore
  • 1946 – William Winslow Woodward (1920–87; in college 1939–40), afterwards medical practitioner
  • 1948 – Louis Walter Davies (1923–2001; in college 1941), afterwards AO and Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of NSW
  • 1951 – Adrian Peter Henchman (1927–89; in college 1946–50), afterwards Sydney solicitor
  • 1953 – James Graham McLeod (b 1932; in college 1949–53), afterwards AO and Professor of Neurology, Sydney University
  • 1956 – John Maxwell Bailey (b 1935; in college 1954), afterwards attached to the European Atomic Energy Commission, Geneva
  • 1960 – Malcolm John Swinburn (b 1937; in college 1956–60), afterwards a medical practitioner
  • 1961 – Peter Garnsey (b 1938; in college 1956–60), afterwards Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity, Cambridge, and Fellow of Jesus College
  • 1964 – John Dyson Heydon (b 1943; in college 1960–64), afterwards AC and High Court justice
  • 1975 – Peter Edward King (b 1952; in college 1971–75), afterwards Sydney barrister and Federal MP
  • 1990 – Andrew Scott Bell (b 1966; in college 1985–89), afterwards Sydney barrister (SC)
  • 1992 – Scott Nixon (b 1968; in college 1986–91), afterwards Sydney barrister
  • 1995 – Peter Raymond Barnett (b 1971; in college 1990–94), afterwards UK businessman and philanthropist
  • 2001 – Andrew Henry Charlton (b 1978; in college 1997–99), afterwards Director of AlphaBeta
  • 2003 – Benjamin Juratowitch (b 1978; in college 1998), afterwards Paris barrister (QC)
  • 2007 – Eric Ronald Wing-Fai Knight (b 1983; in college 2002–04), afterwards Associate Professor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research, Enterprise and Engagement), University of Sydney
  • 2009 – Nikolas Norman Patrick Kirby (b 1984; in college 2005–09), afterwards Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
  • 2010 – David Colin Conway Llewellyn (b 1985; in college 2006–09), afterwards CEO of the Good Lad Initiative and DJS Antibodies
  • 2011 – Nathaniel Jon Ware (b 1988; in college 2009–11), afterwards social impact economist
  • 2013 – Patrick Harry Brian Bateman (b 1987; in college 2006-10), afterwards management consultant and policy adviser

Wardens[]

The following individuals have served as Warden of St Paul's College:

Ordinal Officeholder Term start Term end Time in office Notes
1 The Revd Henry Judge Hose 1856 1862 5–6 years
2 The Revd William Henry Savigny 1862 1865 2–3 years
3 The Revd William Scott 1865 1877 11–12 years Former NSW government astronomer
4 The Revd Canon William Hey Sharp 1878 1908 29–30 years
5 The Revd Lewis Bostock Radford 1909 1915 5–6 years Afterwards Bishop of Goulburn
6 The Revd Canon Arthur Henry Garnsey 1916 1944 27–28 years
7 The Revd Felix Raymond Arnott 1946 1963 16–17 years Afterwards Archbishop of Brisbane
8 The Revd Canon Alexander Peter Bruce Bennie 1964 1985 20–21 years
9 The Right Revd Maxwell McNee Thomas 1985 1994 8–9 years Former Bishop of Wangaratta
10 The Revd Canon Ivan Francis Head 1994 2017 22–23 years
11 Dr Donald John Markwell 2018 2019 1–2 years Former Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
12 The Revd Dr Edward Loane 2020 0–1 years

Controversy[]

In 2009 a Facebook page for a football team was formed by a group of past and present University of Sydney students, including two former St Paul's students.[14] The page ("Define Statutory") described itself as "pro-rape" and "anti-consent". For this, the students of St Paul's received the 2009 for sexist behaviour.

In June 2012, an article a local Australian newspaper critical of an event with the theme "End of the British Raj". College students adopted a dress code of "white tie or colonial uniform", and were served by the usual college catering staff, many of Indian and south Asian descent, dressed in colourful traditional cultural garments.[15][16] On 6 June 2012, the University Student Representative Council passed a motion condemning the themed party by writing a letter to the college's spokesman and the Warden asking for an explanation. Later, many Indian media groups covered this news with copies of the original Sydney Morning Herald article.[17][18][19]

Allegations of sexism surfaced again in 2017 following a post on the College's Facebook page which compared women to "harpooned whales". The college declined to participate in a University-wide review into culture led by Elizabeth Broderick, instead planning to undertake their own externally managed review.[20] Michael Spence, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney raised concerns regarding the "deep contempt for women" and the "cultural problems" at the college. In June 2017 Ivan Head, the Warden of the College, who had been in the role for 22 years, retired amid concerns regarding his leadership.[21]

The College came under criticism after the release of "The Red Zone" report by Nina Funnell on 26 February 2017.[22] In particular, Funnell called for the criminalisation of hazing rituals at colleges like St Paul's. This followed public allegations by Kathy and Ralph Kelly that they believe their son, Stuart Kelly, committed suicide as a result of hazing rituals at the college in 2016.[23] Appearing on 60 Minutes in July 2017, Kelly's parents alleged that he had been subjected to hazing and bullying at the college. Kathy Kelly stated "He went off to university at Sydney, for one night at a college, and he came home a different person the following day ... He was broken."[24] In response, Spence said the University would support a coronial inquest into Stuart's death.[23] Following Broderick's review into College Culture at the University of Sydney's Colleges, St Paul's released a response in which it indicated it would address all recommendations.[25]

Alumni[]

Main article: List of St Paul's College, University of Sydney alumni

Alumni of St Paul's College are commonly referred to as Old Paulines. Alumni include two former Prime Ministers, three High Court judges, Supreme Court judges and 29 Rhodes Scholars, as well as influential figures in business, the law, public service, religion, science, the arts and sports.

Among the most notable Old Paulines are Sir William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (1971–1972), Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (1972 to 1975), John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (1999-2005), prominent barrister Bret Walker, Q&A presenter Tony Jones, cricketer Ed Cowan, media proprietorWarwick Oswald Fairfax and comedian Adam Spencer.

Gallery[]

St Paul's Oval—a large, green, tree-lined field under a blue sky with clouds
Panorama of St Paul's Oval, with the college located behind the trees at the far right

  • Main courtyard

  • Chapel

References[]

  1. ^ "History". St Paul's College. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Graduate House". St Paul's College. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Waldren, Murray (13 September 1999). "No hidden a gender, it's taking wing". The Australian. p. 7.
  4. ^ "History". St Paul's College. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  5. ^ "St Paul's College Act (1854) - Section 1". Retrieved 7 January 2017.
  6. ^ Hamish Milne, The Origins of St Paul's College (BA thesis, University of Sydney 1995) and St Paul's College: Another Fifty Years, 1900–1950 (MPhil thesis, University of Sydney 1997).
  7. ^ Yates, Skye (8 March 2002). "Inner-city church to inspire". Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. p. 113.
  8. ^ Ham, Melinda (30 October 2008). "Secrets of the city exposed – architecture". The Sydney Morning Herald. p. 17.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "News and Events". St Paul's College. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  10. ^ "Australian of the Year Awards: New South Wales National Finalists 2010". Australian of the Year Awards. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2010.
  11. ^ "St. Paul's College". Heraldry. University of Sydney. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
  12. ^ "St Paul's College University Medallists since 2005". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2012.
  13. ^ Diocesan history Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Elite college students proud of 'pro-rape' Facebook page". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 November 2009.
  15. ^ "Was this uni Raj night racist?". 9 June 2012.
  16. ^ "Letters" (PDF). Honisoit. Students' Representative Council: 3. 30 May 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2017.
  17. ^ "Australian college accused of racism". 10 June 2012.
  18. ^ "Australian college accused of racism over 'colonial-themed' party". The Times of India.
  19. ^ "Australian College Accused of Racism Over Colonial-Themed Party". Archived from the original on 16 June 2012.
  20. ^ "St Paul's College boycotting Elizabeth Broderick review into college culture". smh.com.au. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  21. ^ "Warden and chairman at University of Sydney's St Paul's college retire after latest scandal". The Sydney Morning Herald. 6 June 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  22. ^ "Shocking college hazing rituals at prestigious Australian university reveal in report". ABC News. Australia. 25 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  23. ^ Jump up to: a b "Thomas Kelly's family calls for 'horrific drunken rituals' to be outlawed after death of their second son". mailtimes.com.au. 26 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  24. ^ "Abuse led to Stuart Kelly's death: parents". skynews.com.au. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  25. ^ "University receives Broderick Review into St Paul's College" (Press release). The University of Sydney. 14 September 2018.
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