"Dude, where's my gown?": The Oxford Chat Thread Mk.III

Thanks . I've done a little reading around it and apparently because there are no vivas for Mod Langs the congratulation is only in letter form. Slightly less dramatic ha.

I was told by a law tutor that the practice of congratulatory vivas was stopped after a particular student (a certain Leonard Hoffmann) was mightily pissed-off after cutting a holiday short, only to walk into a room just to have people clap him.

I was told by a law tutor that the practice of congratulatory vivas was stopped after a particular student (a certain Leonard Hoffmann) was mightily pissed-off after cutting a holiday short, only to walk into a room just to have people clap him.

Hoffman only read for the BCL at Oxford. If true the story can only relate to the BCL. Most, if not all, law undergraduates were being viva'd long after Hoffman graduated. It would be inconceivable for an undergraduate to have booked a holiday that clashed with a potential viva date.

And after the colleges, the second most important set of landmarks in Oxford... the pubs.

Wow that's pretty amazing

It's the sheer dedication to such a hopeless cause.

Beautiful city! so venerable, so lovely, so unravaged by the fierce intellectual life of our century, so serene.

"There are our young barbarians, all at play"

And yet, steeped in sentiment as she lies, spreading her gardens to the moonlight, and whispering from her towers the last enchantments of the Middle Age, who will deny that Oxford, by her ineffable charm, keeps ever calling us nearer to the true goal of all of us, to the ideal, to perfection, — to beauty, in a word, which is only truth seen from another side? — nearer, perhaps, than all the science of Tubingen. Adorable dreamer, whose heart has been so romantic! who hast given thyself so prodigally, given thyself to sides and to heroes not mine, only never to the Philistines! home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Matthew Arnold

Can we take it Nulli is an Oxford Movement man, amongst his many interests?

A Newman sermon - there's a lego project.

I'm sure I saw a Lego Bridge of Sighs online somewhere a couple of years ago. I would love to see Lego Univ!

I'm sure I saw a Lego Bridge of Sighs online somewhere a couple of years ago. I would love to see Lego Univ!

There's even a Lego St. Catz. In Manor Rd.

I can't offer you a Lego Univ, but have you ever seen the original cardboard architect's model of the front quad?

http://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/content/architectural-model-main-quad-1630s