No disrespect intended to our Tab correspondent, Alex Lancelotti, but here is a 1951 Time article about the difference between Oxford and Cambridge. The source quoted, one Norman St. John-Stevas, is clearly convinced he has a teddy bear called Aloysius, but his delusions are charming nonetheless.
A quote:
- Cambridge, he found, "is a matter-of-fact, down-to-earth, sensible university. It is still defiantly progressive and somewhat less defiantly Protestant. Oxford ... is very much the city of dreaming spires, the home of lost causes, Catholic and conservative in its deepest roots...Architecturally, Cambridge is to Oxford what Paris is to Rome. In Cambridge, as in Paris, everything is on show, and the whole is laid out to the best advantage. Oxford, like Rome, abounds in beauty, but it is a hidden beauty that must be sought for.
You can read the entire article here.
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Still true:
"Oxford is less down-to-earth and more conservative."
"Eccentricity is a cult" (though I suspect it is in Cambridge too)
"Oxford undergraduates have a certain brilliance."
"Port is drunk in Oxford." (Oh yes, lots of it)
Not any more:
"Cambridge is defiantly progressive" (clearly this man didn't go to Peterhouse).
"Oxford is the more fashionable university."
"Dons... sit in an ivory tower."
"Cambridge is a delightful country town" (well, before 60s municipal architecture it probably was).
"Rich undergraduates, a rapidly diminishing class" (aren't any more thanks to the loaded heirs of Delhi, NYC, Beijing etc).
The Tab harbors little in the way of resentment toward the whimsical sentiments of Mr. St. John-Stevas, regardless of their unavoidable subjectivity. That said, the opinions in question were communicated via Time more than half of a century ago; it's no longer 1951, folks. Now if we could only convince Oxbridge of this fact...
Oh come now, Alex; do we really want to?
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