The college's Sandy Bay campus buildings were designed by Dirk Bolt and are regarded as one of Tasmania's finest examples of post-Second World War Australian architecture.

[6][7] The college's design centres on four distinct buildings, each clustered around a central elevated courtyard, while still framing external views over Hobart and the Derwent Estuary.

He was succeeded as Warden by the Revd Philip Valpy Mourant Filleul of St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands, who held the post for four years before returning to England to become Vicar of Biddisham in Somerset.

[5] Contemporaries describe him as being a good scholar and an evangelical churchman, but also as humourless and a "shy quiet man" who may have been better understood by his theological students than by his undergraduate charges.

In 1847, Nixon was described as "a remarkable man both in appearance and character, good-looking, coal-black hair ... piercing black eyes, and full, rather thick lips; tenacious of his rights, extremely anxious to be correct with regard to costume and all other points of etiquette, devoted to the fine arts and a beautiful draughtsman.

[5] Born in England in 1801, Toosey studied cattle husbandry and moved to Hobart in 1826, where he worked on the Cressy estate of the Horse Breeding Co. of the New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land Establishment.

The seal, a symbolic expression of Dux Lux Rex Lex, is composed of the baton, torch, crown and book.

In O-Week, the orientation program, residents are involved in get-to-know-you events, guided tours around the university, Sandy Bay and Greater Hobart, as well as trips to Mt Wellington and Port Arthur.

Other events include various parties throughout the year, and residents can be involved with Clean up Australia Day, tree planting, the ANZAC Day dawn service, the annual play, World's Greatest Shave, winter sleep outs, movie nights, trivia nights, Relay for Life and various formal dinners.

[11] It is a tradition that students from the southern residential colleges of the University of Tasmania compete annually in a series of sport events.

Major sports consist of Rugby union, Australian football, cricket (men's) and netball (women's).

Minor sports consist of soccer, badminton, table tennis, basketball, volleyball, netball (men's) and softball (women's).