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Oxford, England # 3

“I speak not of this college or of that, but of the University as a whole; and gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!” —Lord Coleridge (1820-94)      Even though my sister Anne was mending from her massive brain hemorrhage, she … Continue reading

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Oxford, England

 “Oxford is on the whole more attractive than Cambridge . . . and the traveler is therefore recommended to visit Cambridge first or to omit it altogether if he cannot visit both.”—Baedeker’s Great Britain (1887) An aspect of travel that … Continue reading

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OXFORD

 Oxford England “There is nothing in England to be matched with what lurks in the vapours of these meadows, and in the shadows of these spires—that mysterious, inalienable spirit, spirit of Oxford.  Oxford!  The very sight of the word printed, … Continue reading

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