From j.g.bodard@reading.ac.uk Fri Jun 23 12:17:44 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA27188 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:17:42 -0700 Received: from mailhost.rdg.ac.uk (IDENT:exim@sumh1.rdg.ac.uk [134.225.16.4]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA26811 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 12:17:41 -0700 Received: from suma3 ([134.225.16.13] helo=suma3.rdg.ac.uk) by mailhost.rdg.ac.uk with esmtp (University of Reading Email Service) id {135YxL-0000sO-00} for classics@u.washington.edu; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:17:35 +0100 Received: from localhost (lkpbodrd@localhost) by suma3.rdg.ac.uk (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA10300 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:17:35 +0100 (BST) X-Authentication-Warning: suma3.rdg.ac.uk: lkpbodrd owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:17:35 +0100 (BST) From: Gabriel Bodard X-Sender: lkpbodrd@suma3 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Oxford misapprehension In-Reply-To: <01bfdd45$775b0940$LocalHost@nigel> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I heard recently that the current situation of Oxford putting aside places for state-school candidates is - the political issues notwithstanding - having an especially damaging effect on Classics, since no state school teaches the Greek and Latin which Oxford requires of beginning classics students. Classics positions falling empty are not being replaced in some colleges, I heard. Can anyone confirm or expand on this at all? (I haven't been following this thread fully, so I apologise if I'm repeating what has already been said [or refuted].) - Gabby. John-Gabriel Bodard Listowner, Iconographie Discussion List Reading Classics Department .