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...Americans fight for the opportunity to go to Cambridge and Oxford, students at those prestigious British institutions are competing for the chance to make the opposite journey...
...only requirement is that the recipient write a paper decribing his experience at the end of the year. "Not bad for $8000," says Hurst. Next year, because his fellowship requires that he "put his feet on Commonwealth soil," he plans to go back to study towards a Ph.D. at Oxford...
...studying in the United States on a newer scholarship. The John F. Kennedy Memorial Scholarship normally funds a year at Harvard or MIT and includes all fees and a living allowance of about $9000. Chirgwin, who received her undergraduate degree in medicine at Cambridge and a graduate degree at Oxford, is now working towards a masters in public administration at the Kennedy School. Although "being in the K-School means you don't get to see a lot of undergraduates," Chirgwin is also taking a beginning Spanish course with undergraduates...
...Norrington, who began his musical career as a tenor, founded the amateur Heinrich Schutz Choir in 1962 and was music director of the Kent Opera for more than 15 years. But it was not until he conceived his "Experiences" three years ago (first Haydn, then Beethoven) that the Oxford-born, Cambridge-educated musician achieved his current eminence. Norrington's contribution to the original-instruments movement is to push its boundaries forward from the Baroque and Classical periods into the mid-19th century. "Modern orchestras sometimes don't play Beethoven very well," he observes, "but they generally play Berlioz very well...
...Oxford Union is the biggest political program at Oxford," said John T. Bender '88, who chairs the student advisory committee for the IOP. "It's a model parliament very well known in England...