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Like many of the most brilliant ideas ever dreamt up amongst the dreaming spires of Oxford University, this one came...
...editor of The Oxford Student, could decide to write a comparison of the different undergraduate experiences at Oxford and Harvard. Only one flaw in the plan: I have never been to Harvard, and so anything which I write can only be based on prejudice and disinformation, backed up with a video night spent with Good Will Hunting...
...second consideration, however, prejudice and disinformation are probably entirely appropriate to a comparison of this type, because whilst The Crimson is modelled on The New York Times, we at The Oxford Student aspire to the editorial content of The Sun—a tabloid famous for such front-page headline genius as ‘Zip Me Up Before You Go Go’ (re: George Michael’s outing in an LA toilet...
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a whiffletree is a crossbar on a plough, while bonny-clabber is a type of sour milk...
...approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In that time early fears that the drug might cause nerve damage to the eye or directly trigger cardiac deaths have been laid to rest, while its status as a cultural phenomenon has grown. (The pill has an entry in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary...