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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Among 60-some-odd American college students studying at Trinity College in Oxford this summer, Barbara “Boe?? Morgan is going to classes and learning the customs like everyone else. But sit down to afternoon tea with her and she’ll tell you about growing up with seven brothers and sisters, living in an organic gardening commune in southern New Hampshire and driving for decades on the interstates of America...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

That’s not to say she’s a stereotypical Smithie: While thousands of college students volunteer in soup kitchens or classrooms during their undergraduate years, Boe??s community service group of choice is the Moving Violations, a Boston-based women’s motorcycle club that aids local fundraisers and runs events...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

After hearing all Boe??s extraordinary stories, her present situation seems incongruously tame: she’s in the midst of her sophomore year at Smith College. Unlike those of us for whom college was the unquestionable post-high school destination, Boe has diverted from the established path a hundred times in life. Coming to Oxford to study Shakespeare, fiction writing and international law is another route she might never have expected to take...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

...drew again. And while she eventually ended up on the Boardwalk of higher education with everyone else, she probably has a much deeper appreciation for it. Boe??s road to Smith has been long and complex—and an education in and of itself...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: POSTCARD FROM OXFORD: The Road to Northampton | 7/13/2001 | See Source »

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