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==Development== The college founders purchased from [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge|Corpus Christi College]] {{convert|6|acre|hectare}} of land which lay between [[Grange Road, Cambridge|Grange Road]], [[West Road, Cambridge|West Road]] and [[Sidgwick Avenue]] on 3 November 1879 at a cost of Β£6,111 9s 7d. This parcel of land is still owned by the college and is the location of Old Court and Ann's Court. The site was originally considered somewhat remote from the centre of the university, but Selwyn now neighbours the [[Sidgwick Site]] where several of the university's arts and humanities faculties are. An alternative site on [[Lensfield Road]], where [[Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church]] now stands, was considered but rejected as too small. The chapel was built in 1895 before the dining hall (in 1909), and chapel attendance was compulsory for students from the college's foundation until 1935. There were originally plans to build a permanent library between F Staircase and the chapel to complete Old Court, on land that now forms part of the College Gardens, but this was not done. The [[Selwyn College Library]] was opened in 1929, funded by subscriptions in honour of college members who had died in the [[First World War]]. In 1894 and 1896, respectively, the Old Library in the tower, received two extensive benefactions of history, politics and theological texts, from Canon William Cooke and Edward Wheatley-Balme. These large literary bequests gave Selwyn College an excellent working library.<ref name="Short History"/> The Jacobean-style Dining Hall was constructed under the tenure of the fourth Master of Selwyn College, [[Richard Appleton (academic)|Richard Appleton]], who had previously been a senior fellow of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]. His appointment as Master continued the close relationship between Selwyn and Trinity which had been supportive of the younger college. Appleton served for two years from 1907 before he died of influenza.<ref name="Short History"/> Despite his brief mastership, Appleton had managed to secure funding for the Dining Hall. Appleton's initials and [[rebus]] (three apples and a tun) appear on the north wall of the Hall entrance, and his posthumously painted portrait hangs in the college. Construction on the dining hall began in 1909, but Appleton did not live to see the project completed.<ref name="Short History"/> The dining hall was always intended to be panelled, however, this vision could not be realised until the woodwork for the west side of the hall was presented in 1913 by the Magdalene fellow, [[A. C. Benson]] in memory of his father [[Edward White Benson|Archbishop Benson]]. This panelling came from the [[St Mary's Church, Rotterdam|English Church in Rotterdam]] which was designed by the office of Sir Christopher Wren between 1699 and 1708.<ref name="Short History"/>{{better source needed|date=April 2019}} University education was expensive at the time of Selwyn's foundation, and given that Selwyn College was intended to be a place for young students who could not otherwise afford an Oxbridge education, the college charges were initially kept low. Undergraduates initially paid Β£27 per term for food, lodgings, lectures and tuition, with a small surcharge for students of medicine, scientists and engineers. This was raised to Β£28 in 1916, and Β£33 in 1918, as the number of scholars studying at Oxford and Cambridge drastically decreased due to the First World War. [[File:Selwyn College Gatehouse Tower, Cambridge, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|right|Selwyn College Tower]]
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