From jfgannon@cloud9.net Fri Jun 23 14:06:10 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 OAA14694 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:06:09 -0700 Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA10831 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:06:08 -0700 Received: from cloud9.net (jfgannon.dialup.cloud9.net [168.100.203.180]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7A6076471 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:05:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3953D10C.162AC08F@cloud9.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 17:05:16 -0400 From: "J.F. Gannon" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Cambridge recruiting tactics and Brits in US References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In this as in other matters perspectives differ. Currently there are complaints that the BBC discriminates against people with plummy accents. J.F. Gannon "Daniel P. Tompkins" wrote: > I think part of the point was that she was from the northeast of England > and was turned down at Oxford after an interview. One story about > this--NYT?--observed that there is prejudice in England against > northerners. > > Myself, I'm no expert, having never been there. But I am interested in the > story because many British academics who are happy in the states seem > to be > from the north: one colleague says, 'we just feel much more at ease in > the states' than in British institutions where their class and accents are > looked down on. > > Dan Tompkins > > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Hutchinson J.S. wrote: > > > That story was about a student who applied to Oxford > > to read Medicine, but was rejected. She has a scholarship to Harvard to > > read, initially at least, Biochemistry. > > JS Hutchinson > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: dtd916@mindspring.com > > [mailto:dtd916@mindspring.com] > > Sent: 23 June 2000 07:16 > > To: classics@u.washington.edu > > Subject: Re: Cambridge recruiting > > tactics? > > > > >From Prof O'Donnell: > > > > >I heard from a very well-informed source > > the other day that an American > > >high school student, graduating from a > > prestigious private secondary > > >school with good training in classics, will > > be attending Cambridge > > >University in Britain next fall on full > > scholarship, having been actively > > >and ardently recruited by Cambridge -- he > > would never have thought to > > >apply otherwise and was heading towards > > Harvard. Has anyone else heard of > > >such recruiting from over the ocean? I > > have half a suspicion, but cannot > > >verify, that his teachers may have had a > > part to play, but if not, it > > >would be an interesting sign of initiative > > from over there. > > Wasn't a version of this story in the > > Chronicle of Higher Ed, > > but differing: > > (1) In that the student was British? > > (2) In that the student was accepted by > > Harvard, not Cambridge? > > I think the point of the article was to show > > class > > differences... > > > > Bob White > > > > Robert T. White > > Shaker Heights HS > > Shaker Heights OH > > > > dtd916@mindspring.com > > rwhite@ohssl.org > > > > .