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=== Twentieth century === [[File:EC20th_WH_memorial_poster.jpg|thumb|right|Memorial poster from Wycliffe Hall, c. 1910, with portraits of the first four principals and views of 52 and 54 Banbury Road prior to the addition of the front dining hall]] [[William Henry Griffith Thomas]] was one of Wycliffe Hall's best known principals (serving 1905β1910) and remains a noted theologian. He undertook much of the lecturing in college himself during his tenure<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://churchsociety.org/issues_new/history/griffiththomas/iss_history_griffiththomas_Clark-PortmanWycliffe.asp|title=Church Society - Issues - History - Griffith Thomas - Portman/Wycliffe Hall|website=churchsociety.org|access-date=2018-01-15}}</ref> and is remembered today by a bronze bust in the dining room.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} During the [[World War I|First World War]], Wycliffe Hall housed refugees from [[Serbia]] and trainees from the [[Royal Flying Corps]] who built a practice aeroplane in the dining hall.<ref>Christopher Hibbert (ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Oxford (London: Macmillan, 1988), p.507</ref> At the jubilee of the hall in 1927, the principal led students to Jerusalem for their summer vacation term. Wycliffe Hall staff and students conducted four further pilgrimages to Jerusalem, in 1929, 1931, 1934 and 1937, mostly without incident, though during the 1929 trip students were commissioned as peacekeepers during riots and one student was shot through the shoulder.<ref>Andrew Atherstone, 'Evangelical Pilgrims to the Holy Land: Wycliffe Hall's Encounter with the Eastern Churches 1927-1937', Sobornost 30:2 (2008), pp.37-58</ref> Two further years later, the principal who led these expeditions (F. G. Brown) was elected Protestant Bishop in Jerusalem. Photos from these 1920s expeditions decorate the walls of No. 4 Norham Gardens today. The chapel organ was rebuilt in 1936 and rededicated by the [[Bishop of Leicester]].<ref>'Miscellaneous', Musical Times 77/1116 (February 1936), p.153</ref> [[Religious liberalism]] influenced Wycliffe Hall in the 1950s and '60s. F. J. Taylor (principal 1956β1962) was editor of the [[Liberal Anglo-Catholicism|liberal-Catholic]] ''Parish and People'' magazine, whilst David Anderson (principal 1962β1969) was a contributor to the Modern Churchmen's Union. The evangelical churches lost confidence in the hall and student numbers fell dramatically.<ref>Andrew Atherstone, Rescued from the Brink: The Collapse and Resurgence of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford in Studies in Church History Volume 44, 2008, p.355β365</ref> An official 1965 report on the hall warned that 'dialogue with the present age...must be founded on and spring from evangelical conviction'.<ref>Central Advisory Committee on Training for the Ministry Inspection Report 1965</ref> Eventually, the Hall Council asked for Anderson's resignation in 1969 and instead sought clearer evangelical leadership, even inviting [[John Stott]] to take up the post.<ref>Timothy Dudley-Smith, John Stott (biography) (2 vols, Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 2001), II pp.72-75</ref> Stott declined, but other well-known evangelicals were found to get the hall back onto a firmer footing, including Peter Southwell, David Holloway, [[Oliver O'Donovan]], and [[Roger T. Beckwith|Roger Beckwith]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}} The centenary of the hall was celebrated in 1977 with a service of thanksgiving at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], followed by tea in a marquee on the Wycliffe lawn. In 1996 Wycliffe Hall became a [[permanent private hall]] of the University of Oxford, under the leadership of [[Alister McGrath]].{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}
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