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New College
Flag:
It is a crimson-yellow-crimson vertical triband. The
yellow stripe is slightly broader and charged with a badge as follows: a white
shield displaying two chevronels Sable between three heraldic roses Gules barbed
and seeded proper, surrounded by the belt of the Order of the Garter, and topped
by a yellow royal crown with scarves of the same, at the bottom edge there is
the motto “MANNERS MAKYTH MAN” in counterchanged colours, at the top of the
yellow stripe there is a crimson inscription “A.D. 1379”
Source: best seen
here:
https://www.facebook.com/newcollegeboatclub/posts/632804770219230
Meaning:
I am afraid, I can’t offer more than an educated hypothesis: College
and boat club share the same flag. The date of foundation at the top edge is of
course that one of the college and not of the boat club. All photos of rowing
events, like Summer Eights and baptising of boats, also show this flag, thus it
is in common use of both institutions.
The images in both 1930ies sources are
tiny but have this one in common, but they differ in colour:
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-three-postcards-showing-the-oars-flags-and-arms-of-oxford-university-79810690.html
displays the flag as blue-white-blue triband with yellow inscription at the
bottom edge and white shield, and
http://www.rowing-memorabilia.de/index.php/2-uncategorised/4135-pc-gbr-oxford-university-colleges-oar-blade-colours-flags-and-arms-3-consecutive-cards
displays it as pink-white-pink triband with white inscription at the bottom edge
and white shield. The former probably is more erroneous than the latter. In both
sources the inscription at the top edge is missing, but probably just the
realisation of the complete pattern failed. As an additional information, within
the images of 1720 that one of New College is the only one without shield, just
showing a badge, i.e. a disc with the charges of the arms and surrounded by a
belt. Furthermore
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1922-summer-eights-college-boat-club-518904041
this source displays a triband of very dark blue, with a sting of red, and
yellow with arms and date of college foundation. It is a leaflet of the boat
club about the Summer Eights 1922.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 13 March 2019
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 March 2019
New College
Coat of Arms:
Shield Argent, two chevronels Sable between
three roses Gules barbed and seeded proper, i.e. Vert and Or.
Motto: “MANNERS
MAKYTH MAN”
William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England,
and one of England’s richest men obtained a Papal Bull for the endowment of
Winchester College in 1378. In the following year he founded “Seinte Marie
College of Wynchestre in Oxenforde,” since 1386, when it had been completed
known as New College. The college arms are Wykehams personal arms and are used
together with the motto. The two chevronels, are said to have been added when he
became a bishop and the other representing his skill with architecture, the
chevron was a tool used by masons. The motto was in many respects fairly
revolutionary. First, it was written in English, rather than Latin, which makes
it very unusual in Oxford, Secondly, the motto makes a social statement; it is
not by birth, money, or property that an individual is defined, but by how he or
she behaves towards other people. Wykeham's motto is reminiscent of the insight
found in Aristotle's Ethics, that is what he or she does, and what we do is what
we are.
Sources: John P. Brooke-Little: Oxford University and its Colleges,
Oxford 1962
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_College,_Oxford
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 5 March 2019
image located by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 11 March 2019
Source: “The arms of the Colleges; &c in Oxford' by J. Owen & E. Bowen c.1720
Current
image by
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 March 2019
Blade is crimson with two yellow
stripes..
Source: (for current versions):
https://www.reddit.com
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 18 March 2019