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Each fall, many Harvard students applying to graduate schools consider attending British universities. In this article, a graduate of Oxford University describes experiences and contradictions that a student might face in Britain...
...Harvard student spending some time at one of England's "ancient seats of learning"--such as an Oxford or Cambridge college--will be lulled by superficial impressions of familiarity. He or she will find a lifestyle there very different from that on one of the "glass and redbrick" campuses that are the products of post-war university expansion in the U.K., but the difference is no greater than that between Harvard and a Mid-West American college. Indeed, the "superior" atmosphere common to both "Oxbridge" and Ivy League (which many affect to despise, but secretly covet) may make things seem...
Once admitted to a club, a student must usually pay a $100 initiation fee and, on the average, a $300 fee for annual dues. The dues cover a limited number of free meals and drinks, and they do not begin to cover a club's yearly overhead. Property taxes on some of the clubs take as much as $30,000 every year...
Gilmore, who was 68 years old, died of cancer last Friday in Cambridge after four decades of association with Harvard as a graduate student and a professor of Renaissance history...
Kent Worcester, a member of the UMass-Boston Student Strike Committee who participated in the demonstration, said "the interests of the faculty are similar to ours. We are behind them...