Word: delling
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...proclaimed a March 4 London Times article. “Harvard students deplore Oxford University,” The Hindu grieved the same morning. Only the somber weightiness of a presidential obituary was suitable for what these newspapers dutifully reported: Harvard-educated Rhodes scholars, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05, had penned an op-ed in this student newspaper complaining about their Oxford experience...
...which two Harvard grads air frustrations about their time at Oxford University as Rhodes Scholars has stirred up controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In an opinion piece titled “Oxford Blues” that was published in The Crimson on Feb. 25, Melissa L. Dell ’05 and Swati Mylavarapu ’05 cautioned current Harvard juniors to “think twice before attending the Rhodes scholarship information session.” In the article, the pair expressed disenchantment with Oxford’s “outdated academic system...
Moreover, despite the best efforts of our selectors, some Rhodes Scholars venture to Oxford for the wrong reasons. (One of the disadvantages attached to the fame of the Rhodes Scholarships, as Dell and Mylavarapu note, is that some seek the honor and not the degree. Dell and Mylavarapu end their article with the advice that one should “not apply unless you are ready to study and live in Oxford.” It is astonishing to think this might need be said to anyone...
...unambiguous indication of how the views expressed by Dell and Mylavarapu are not representative is that there are now more American Rhodes Scholars choosing to remain at Oxford for the full three years of Rhodes financial support (rather than one or two) than at any time in our hundred-year plus history. (That stipend is, by the way, still extremely generous by any international comparison, and more than adequate to cover all annual expenses except for those who travel the world extensively during vacations...
Like Melissa L. Dell and Swati Mylavarapu (“Oxford Blues,” oped, Feb 25), I’m a Rhodes Scholar currently studying at Oxford. I remember as a Yale junior being so enchanted by the prospect of winning a Rhodes that it was tempting not to consider whether Oxford was right for me. Nevertheless, I put in the hours of thought and research needed to make the best decision I could about how I should spend the next two years. In making my decision to apply, I considered advice from Rhodes alums, Oxford instructors, Yale...