Mi Briant hes an interesting chapter on the history of Oxford which taught me a lot of things I should have known before. It is interesting to remember that Oxford, which started as a poor scholars' university and which during the eighteenth and early nineteenth century degenerated into a glorified finishing-school where the sons of wealthy men worked off their wild oats, is again returning te its original status; more than half the undergraduates are subsidized in one way or another and the proportion of men who go up simply to spend three years amusing themselves and spending too much money is now infinitesimal.
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