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...Rhodes Scholars give Oxford D-Minus,” 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...
...critiques it elicited, but in something entirely outside of the authors’ control: the credence the international media has given their grousing and the blind deference to status that such validation represents. For in giving weight to the authors’ most basic assumption—that had Oxford been more accommodating and convenient, it might have satisfied their expectations—the media substantiated the idea, widespread among colleges catering to student whims, that the frustrations of everyday life can diminish the value of the opportunities these venerable institutions provide...
Though alarming and uncomfortable, the controversy’s illumination of this culture of resignation presents an opportunity to examine the motivations that drive us and the satisfaction that we seek as we live and work at elite universities. Unfortunately, at institutions like Oxford and Harvard, that discussion is conducted only superficially, railroaded by students’ single-minded pursuit of prestige. It is time that we at Harvard, recipients of such extraordinary privilege, abandon that hollow pastime, put our complaints into perspective, and find satisfaction in the present...
...recent op-ed in 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 In the article, the pair expressed disenchantment with Oxford’s “outdated...
...Harvard House system, based so closely on the Oxford-Cambridge model, conspicuously lacks one luxury: While Kings College, Cambridge has a wine cellar rumored to contain tens of thousands of bottles, Harvard’s Houses have remained cellar-less. Nevertheless, devotion to that “bottled poetry”—written of by Robert Louis Stevenson—runs deep among both undergraduates and professors...