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Burg said that she will go to law school but is unsure about whether she will take time off after graduating from college. Sitaraman said he is interested in pursing a doctorate in international relations at either Oxford University or Cambridge University...
...months earlier, he had suffered a massive stroke and never fully recovered, so 10:30 was not so late for the old revolutionary to rise. He had some coffee, but it did not take, and he went back to bed. By evening Lenin was running a high fever, as Oxford historian Robert Service recounts in Lenin: A Biography. Lenin's Bolshevik buddy Nikolai Bukharin was there at the end: "When I ran into Ilich's room, full of doctors and stacked with medicines, Ilich let out a last sigh ... Ilich, Ilich was no more...
...Harvard undergraduates need to work extremely hard to earn their degrees. To see that, one needs only compare the time devoted to academics by Harvard students and by their peers at Oxford and Cambridge, who spend two-and-a-half years doing nothing but drinking before cramming for their all-important final exams. That some Harvard students could take on further academic pressures is a testament to the intellectual qualities of the student body, but it does not mean that increasing their workload would be a responsible move. As Lewis said, the mental health problems demonstrate that many undergraduates...
...Cambridge from across the globe not because of Harvard’s facilities, its faculty or its career-building connections. They had come instead searching for a broad, liberal education of the type that dominates in America but is impossible to find in the restrictive, single subject curricula at Oxford and Cambridge, where most of these students say they might have otherwise enrolled...
...Actually, Harvard was fine with her,” he says. “I could stay there. I think she felt Oxford was on the decline. Quite right...