All Souls College, University of Oxford Until 2010, candidates also took an essay, lasting three hours, in which they had to write about just one word, like "innocence" or "error" .

For more than a century, prospective Fellows of All Souls, Oxford have had to sit a frightening exam paper that contains no questions and just one word. Now it has been dropped – and Harry Mount ...

Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford University. Wikipedia / CC 3.0 Students applying to Oxford University are interviewed throughout December, so Christmas is a nerve-racking time for ...

From the Country Life Archive: In February, 1438, Archbishop Chichele laid the first stone of his college of "All Faithful Souls Departed." It was a Chantry as well as a Foundation for poor scholars.

The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that Dr John Simmons, an Oxford academic and All Souls historian who died last year aged 90, had left his old college an undisclosed sum from his £880,000 ...

OXFORD, England The exam was simple yet devilish, consisting of a single noun (“water,” for instance, or “bias”) that applicants had three hours somehow to spin into a coherent essay.