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“Nonsense”
No Degeneracy
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE
More nonsense has been talked in the last year of the relative degeneracy of Oxford as compared with Cambridge than any similar topic has excited since I first began to know and understand the University (writes Lord Birkenhead, High Steward of Oxford University, in the London Daily Telegraph).
It may perhaps be premised that the principal object of a university is still to produce men of learning, research and cultivation, highly equipped scholars, resourceful and up-to-date scientists, erudite theologians. It has not, so far as I know, even been pretended, in any one of these matters that Oxford lags behind any university in the world. Some of us, indeed, who particularly love this venerable home of learning, would put the matter cons
