Editing Oxbridge (section)

==Origins==
Although both universities were founded more than eight centuries ago, the term ''Oxbridge'' is relatively recent. In [[William Makepeace Thackeray]]'s novel ''[[Pendennis]]'', published in 1850, the main character attends the fictional [[List of fictional Oxbridge colleges|Boniface College, Oxbridge]]. According to the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'', the first recorded use of the word was by [[Virginia Woolf]], who, citing [[William Makepeace Thackeray]], referenced it in her 1929 essay "[[A Room of One's Own]]."  The term was used in the ''[[Times Educational Supplement]]'' in 1957,<ref>{{cite news |author=G.D. Worswick |title=The anatomy of Oxbridge |work=[[Times Educational Supplement]] |date=3 May 1957}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=G.D. Worswick |title=Men's Awards at Oxbridge |work=Times Educational Supplement |date=6 June 1958}}</ref> and the following year in ''Universities Quarterly''.<ref>{{cite journal |title=British Universities and Intellectual Life |author=[[A. H. Halsey]] |page=144 |journal=Universities Quarterly |year=1958 |volume=12 |issue=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c3cuAAAAIAAJ&q=Oxbridge |access-date=22 March 2009 |publisher=Turnstile Press}}</ref>

When expanded, the universities are almost always referred to as "Oxford and Cambridge", the order in which they were founded. A notable exception is Tokyo's ''Cambridge and Oxford Society''; this probably arises from the fact that the Cambridge Club was founded there first, and also had more members than its Oxford counterpart when they amalgamated in 1905.<ref>{{cite web |author=Giro Koike |title=Why The "Cambridge & Oxford Society"? |url=http://www.camford.org/Whycamford.htm |date=5 April 1995 |access-date=8 September 2008}}</ref>