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...English system has important benefits for students who have clear career plans. For example, a person who wants to be a doctor can "go straight into medicine at 18 and qualify at 23-24," Chirgwin says. "We're more specialized in high school. You decide at 16 what your future...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Harvard is "very different from Oxford or Cambridge," Chirgwin says. "Contact with professors seems to be much less. When I was an undergrad at Cambridge, I did a year of philosophy and had a tutor who was a professor. We did a couple hours a week, and it was a real intellectual experience with feedback...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...some colleges, such as Caius, you have to wear an [academic] gown to dinner," Hurst says. And Chirgwin described one of the traditions involving Clare College--the all-women's college she attended at Cambridge--and King's College. "Once a month one of their drinking clubs comes to piss on our wall, and we all gather on top and throw eggs and flour down at them...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Although they live in older buildings--the earliest colleges date back to the 14th century--British students live better than their American counterparts, fellows say. "I find the idea of sharing [college] accomodations pretty horrible," said Chirgwin. "Living in [Cambridge] University, I had either one or two rooms which were not shared in any way, and what I had was normal." Housing is guaranteed all three years at Cambridge and during the first and third years by Oxford...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...quite disgusting," Chirgwin says...

Author: By A. LOUISE Oliver, | Title: British Fellowships Return Rhodes' Favor | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

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