[3] Dissatisfied with the permissive admission policies and lack of refreshments at the Oxford Union,[3][4] Woodgate established his own club and stated that it "should consist of the picked hundred of the University, selected for all-round qualities; social, physical and intellectual qualities being duly considered.

[8] Roger Bannister, president of the club in 1950, celebrated at Vincent's after running the world's first sub-four-minute mile at the Iffley Road track in 1954.

[14] The club was originally located in the old reading rooms which J. H. Vincent, a printer, had previously kept at 90 High Street.

The club tie, adopted in 1926,[4] is particularly renowned and was regarded by J.C. Masterman as "a sort of passport all over the English-speaking world".

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