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Phil C.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:14 pm
Post subject: Re: Vibrancy and excitement. |
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On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:59:36 +0100 (BST), bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian
{Hamilton Kelly}) wrote:
| Quote: | On Friday, in article
41829FC8.2000408@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk "Laura F Spira" wrote:
Some of us can remember when the term "new" university was applied to
the likes of Sussex and even the days when "redbrick" was a term uttered
with some scorn...
But,... but,... but: Sussex *IS* a "new university". Along with York,
Exeter, Warwick, Aston, Surrey, etc. All the post-1950 ones, in fact.
:-)
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<Splutter> Surely anywhere founded after 1200 A.D. is a new
university?
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:10 pm
Post subject: Re: Vibrancy and excitement. |
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Phil C. wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:59:36 +0100 (BST), bhk@dsl.co.uk (Brian
{Hamilton Kelly}) wrote:
On Friday, in article
41829FC8.2000408@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk "Laura F Spira" wrote:
Some of us can remember when the term "new" university was applied
to the likes of Sussex and even the days when "redbrick" was a term
uttered with some scorn...
But,... but,... but: Sussex *IS* a "new university". Along with
York, Exeter, Warwick, Aston, Surrey, etc. All the post-1950 ones,
in fact.
:-)
Splutter> Surely anywhere founded after 1200 A.D. is a new
university?
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Why do you think New College, Oxford is called that? (It's official title
is something like 'The College of St Mary of Winchester at Oxford' - but
there's another St Mary's College.)
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Vibrancy and excitement. |
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Phil C. wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:53:44 +0100, Laura F Spira
laura@DRAGONspira.fsbusiness.co.uk> wrote:
Phil C. wrote:
Yes - and for what it's worth, Oxford Brookes does very well in the
Times Good University Guide - ahead of some older universities and
hot on the heels of others.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,716,00.html
Thank you for pointing that out, Mr C. I was about to object to my
place of employment being referred to as a "benighted Poly". NSOED
says that benighted means "involved in intellectual or moral
darkness" and, even on a really bad day, I don't think that's a good
description of Brookes.
I'd agree that being involved in intellectual darkness probably
doesn't do much for a university's reputation. But moral darkness? We
could have done with more of that when I was at university.
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Our student union was the first to ever have a condom-dispensing machine
(some time in the mid-'60s, I believe). It made a loss - and was taken away
again!
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John Briggs
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