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Durham is the grave of the Oxbridge rejects

Heard this phrase today at a beer festival, from several people.

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Steeeeevo
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Niccolo
Heard this phrase today at a beer festival, from several people.

I always though it was St. Andrews, then again I heard that from old sources so Durham may be the new grave.
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TKR
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Yep - only along with warwick bristol edinburgh st andrews and york to name but a few
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Unpossible
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Oh, I'd hardly call it a grave.
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WokSz
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In that respect, I would call all the top universities in the U.K. to be the Oxbridge 'grave.'
It's not really fair is it? Considering that some Oxbridgians are there because of who they/their parents/their school/their background are/is.
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Knogle
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Ridiculously pointless thread.

Grave of Oxbridge rejects? Get a life please.
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Unpossible
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Knogle
Ridiculously pointless thread.

Grave of Oxbridge rejects? Get a life please.


At least Durham is a grave with a proper funeral, and appropriate pomp and circumstance. LSE is just a shallow, unmarked hole in the ground for wartime casualties buried without ceremony. Yeah.
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I go to Durham and I am very much alive...

I respect Cambridge and Oxford students for the pressure they endure and the important work they will one day do, and I think we Durham students feel that respect is mutual. We do not see ourselves as the zombied counterparts... because my life didn't end when I went to Durham, in many ways it began.

And I love it there... whether I had ambitions of going to Oxbridge or not.
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Nutter
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Right, and we so need this thread around here. :rolleyes:
Reply 10
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RobbieC
I go to Durham and I am very much alive...

I respect Cambridge and Oxford students for the pressure they endure and the important work they will one day do, and I think we Durham students feel that respect is mutual. We do not see ourselves as the zombied counterparts... because my life didn't end when I went to Durham, in many ways it began.

And I love it there... whether I had ambitions of going to Oxbridge or not.

Amen RobbieC, thank you.
I can see where the OP is coming from. The similarities between Durham and Oxbridge (though a noticable academic differnce) are overwhelming. The rahs, the rowing, the colleges, even the subjects appear to replicate Oxford.

But then isn't that what Durham was created for? An place for rejects of Oxbridge to go to? (along with the Scottish/UCL/Bristol universities).

I do not know where i am going with this post.
josephcohen_2
I can see where the OP is coming from. The similarities between Durham and Oxbridge (though a noticable academic differnce) are overwhelming. The rahs, the rowing, the colleges, even the subjects appear to replicate Oxford.

But then isn't that what Durham was created for? An place for rejects of Oxbridge to go to? (along with the Scottish/UCL/Bristol universities).

I do not know where i am going with this post.

To hell :ninja:
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TKR
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josephcohen_2
I can see where the OP is coming from. The similarities between Durham and Oxbridge (though a noticable academic differnce) are overwhelming. The rahs, the rowing, the colleges, even the subjects appear to replicate Oxford.

But then isn't that what Durham was created for? An place for rejects of Oxbridge to go to? (along with the Scottish/UCL/Bristol universities).

I do not know where i am going with this post.


I'm not sure that saying that Durham was created to house Oxbridge rejects is strictly a very defensible position. As for the subjects - again you tend to find the same ones in lots of unis.....
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Durham was created so that England had more universitites, because until it was founded there was only Oxford and Cambridge, and obviously not everyone could go there........Blah.
You mean Durham has to cope with having hundreds of exceedingly academic, straight A students thrown at it by Oxbridge?

Oh no....how will we survive....

(BTW pointless thread)
Lol, bare pissed Durhamites...
RobbieC
I go to Durham and I am very much alive...

I respect Cambridge and Oxford students for the pressure they endure and the important work they will one day do, and I think we Durham students feel that respect is mutual. We do not see ourselves as the zombied counterparts... because my life didn't end when I went to Durham, in many ways it began.

And I love it there... whether I had ambitions of going to Oxbridge or not.


It generally is, and its a small minority of ***** who disparage it.

Durham is still prestigious, still a good teaching university, and still has a huge number of talented and in short good people there.

In short, uni is what you make it, and it doesn't matter where that uni is; you'll still have the best time of your life and meet a lot of likeminded people. Maybe in some places you won't be stretched as much academically and intellectually, but for some people that's not a problem.
This is a really depressing thread.
Is Durham full of manically depressed Oxbridge rejects? Or is this image i have cultivated due to ignorance? I hope the latter is true.

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