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...Spence ’04 became more famous for where she didn’t get in than for her Byerly Hall acceptance letter. A state school student in a Northeast England seaside town, Spence wasn’t particularly surprised when her application to study medicine at Oxford University was rejected. There were only a few coveted spots in the college, and she’d met an impressive assortment of candidates during the interview process...
However, a few months later, after she’d gotten into Harvard, her hometown paper published a local-girl-makes-good story that mentioned her Oxford snub. The English media wolf pack pounced on the story and soon, politicians and pundits around the country were demanding to know why a girl who could get into the United States’ top university couldn’t get into Oxford. Many claimed that Spence had been discriminated against because she attended a public school in northern England...
...Human Heart is the diary of Logan Mountstuart, an English writer whose long, languid life begins in 1906 and embraces most of the 20th century. Mountstuart starts his diary as a senior in high school--a sixth former, as they say--and goes on to chronicle his years at Oxford, his early literary efforts and his assorted marriages and affairs. Sophisticated and self-deprecating, flip-flopping between passionate love and fashionable ennui, Mountstuart makes for good company. A pleasure-seeker, he travels ceaselessly, eats and drinks abundantly and lies fluently. Boyd insinuates his hero as an extra into several historical...
...million men could be descendants of Genghis Khan. An Oxford University study suggests that 8% of men living within the once vast Mongol empire carry the Y-chromosome DNA characteristic of Khan's ruling house...
...Full Monty. Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617)-496-2222; $7 regular, $5 students in advance; or at the door: $8 regular, $6 students. Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland Street, (Corner of Kirkland & Oxford Streets...