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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
The Groves of Academe
Mark Pattison, Memoirs of an Oxford Don (1885; rpt. London: Cassell, 1988), p. 40:
Such was my simplicity that I believed that no one went to college but those who were qualified, and anxious, to study.