Trevelyan College, Durham
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Trevelyan College (known colloquially as Trevs) is a college of Durham University, England. Founded in 1966, the college takes its name from social historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (pronounced "Trevillian"[3]), Chancellor of the university from 1950 to 1957. Originally an all-female college (the last to open in England), the college became fully mixed in 1992.
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Durham University | |||||
Coordinates | 54.764167°N 1.579444°W / 54.764167; -1.579444 | ||||
Motto | Latin: Vera fictis libentius | ||||
Motto in English | Truth more readily than falsehood | ||||
Established | 1966 | ||||
Named for | George Macaulay Trevelyan | ||||
Principal | Adekunle Adeyeye[1] | ||||
Vice principal | Martin Brader[2] | ||||
Undergraduates | 650 | ||||
Postgraduates | 145 | ||||
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Trevelyan is noted in Durham for its hexagon-featuring architecture and for the display of daffodils that surrounds it every spring. As a constituent college of Durham University, Trevelyan is listed as a higher education institution under the Education Reform Act 1988. It is owned and for the most part run by the university.