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...Crimson’s next challenger was the Dartmouth junior varsity lightweight crew. Harvard’s 6:44 bested the Big Green, who trailed by two-thirds of a length. The Crimson moved into the quarterfinals, where it met its match in the first boat of Oxford Brookes University...
...heavyweight boat of Oxford Brookes had a fast start, giving the crew an initial advantage which was held through the course of the race. Harvard’s lightweight boat pulled in two lengths behind Oxford Brookes‚ in a time...
...OXFORD, ENGLAND—Boe knows 18-wheelers. Boe knows organic vegetables. And by the end of the summer, Boe will know Twelfth Night, short fiction and the intricacies of international...
Among 60-some-odd American college students studying at Trinity College in Oxford this summer, Barbara “Boe” Morgan is going to classes and learning the customs like everyone else. But sit down to afternoon tea with her and she’ll tell you about growing up with seven brothers and sisters, living in an organic gardening commune in southern New Hampshire and driving for decades on the interstates of America...
...stories, her present situation seems incongruously tame: she’s in the midst of her sophomore year at Smith College. Unlike those of us for whom college was the unquestionable post-high school destination, Boe has diverted from the established path a hundred times in life. Coming to Oxford to study Shakespeare, fiction writing and international law is another route she might never have expected to take...