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...sandwich, what would that mean for our memories? My lack of closure stemmed from the fact that knowing the definition didn’t compare to the satisfaction of biting into a juicy pastrami on rye. I spoke to everyone I knew to recover the charm missing from Oxford??s “sandwich (n.)”. Suddenly, I was in a world where everyone else was a secret sandwich expert and I would never possibly know enough. My friend from Long Island, a connoisseur of Boston’s roast beef sandwiches, gave me alarmingly detailed...
...rankings,” U.K. schools saw a widespread drop in rankings this year, with top universities Cambridge and Oxford falling behind Yale to third and fourth place. Higher education observers in England worry that their universities will continue to fall behind American peers due to their comparative poverty. Oxford??s endownment stands at a fifth the size of Harvard’s coffers. In May, the university announced a massive fundraising campaign to add $2.18 billion to its accounts. According to the Times Higher Education publication, spending on university in the United Kingdom is less than half...
...There's a distinctiveness to Oxford??a sort of best of Hogwarts, without the brooms—that I'll miss a lot, and perhaps there are elements that could be emulated here," said Zittrain, who started splitting time between Harvard and Oxford in 2005. "HLS is one of the most vibrant academic environments in the world. It's a place that is eager to forge connections with other universities, other disciplines, and with the world beyond academia...
...that “the three-year doctorate sounds appealing at the moment.”But Blattler hasn’t completely discarded continuing pole vaulting across the Atlantic. Since no NCAA undergraduate rules would apply for her at Oxford, she’s thought about vaulting for Oxford??s track club recreationally.“Actually Harvard-Yale sends a combined team to compete against Oxford and Cambridge every couple of years,” she said. “It’s this long-standing tradition of competition.”Not to mention...
...Ashmole donated the collection to Oxford University, which in turn created the world’s first University Museum, the Ashmolean.A curious clause in Ashmole’s bequeathal stipulated the museum remove decaying specimens to maintain the collection’s integrity.By 1775, the dodo, now at Oxford??s Museum of Natural History, had grown “too tattery,” Berry said. “The dodo was probably rotting.”The curators, not knowing this was the world’s last specimen, decided to burn it in a bonfire. They...