Sweet review of what sounds like a sweet book of reminiscences about time spent at Oxford University.
From the review:
…This idea of a university as a community of civilized and civilizing discourse has been exported all over the English-speaking world, almost by osmosis. It has only occasionally been spun into words—by educators such as, in the 19th century, John Henry Newman, the Catholic convert who became a cardinal and is shortly to become a saint, and, in the 20th century, Robert Hutchins at the University of Chicago.
But the book goes on to note how uncivilized Oxford’s culture could be, too.
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Great cover, by the way.
Goes as well with this blog’s
color scheme as that blue rat.