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...story has assumed mythic proportions, like the sinking of the Titanic or Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole. Shortly after noon on June 8, 1924, the 38-year-old English schoolmaster and Alpinist George Leigh Mallory, along with a young companion, an Oxford engineering student and oarsman named Andrew ("Sandy") Irvine, 22, vanished into the mists surrounding the summit of 29,028-ft. Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, never to be heard from again...
...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
Studying abroad during junior year is encouraged by both faculty and deans. The idea of intellectual and experiential curiosity fits with the liberal arts philosophy, and most students embrace the opportunity to travel and immerse themselves in a different culture. Williams also offers some original study-away opportunities. Williams-Oxford offers students the one-on-one tutorial structure of Oxford, yet still allows a study of various disciplines; Williams-Mystic is centered in Mystic, Conn., where a small number of students from Williams and other colleges concentrate on marine issues...
Studying abroad during junior year is encouraged by both faculty and deans. The idea of intellectual and experiential curiosity fits with the liberal arts philosophy, and most students embrace the opportunity to travel and immerse themselves in a different culture. Williams also offers some original study-away opportunities. Williams-Oxford offers students the one-on-one tutorial structure of Oxford, yet still allows a study of various disciplines; Williams-Mystic is centered in Mystic, CT, where a small number of students from Williams and other colleges concentrate on marine issues...