Guided tour through Merton College included the Mob Quad, oldest in Oxford, 14th century, and the gothic chapel where all alumni can be "hatched, matched, and/or dispatched". Merton College alumni include Sir Thomas Bodley, T.S. Eliot, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan.
We'll be having our lectures in the Examination Schools where students from all colleges in the University come at the end of each term, sub fusc (in formal gowns) for "schools" (exams).
My room is in Rose Hall, reminiscent of St. Andrew's, meals in the College Hall, vaulted great room in use since 1277.
but didn't comment.
How could they see the Radcliffe Camera and say nothing?
To compare the worlds they came from and were visiting: in 1790 New York, the largest city in the new republic, totaled 33,000 pop., London , 700,000.
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