Yale’s Rhodes winners defend Oxford studies
Debate centers on Harvard Crimson column ‘Oxford Blues’
After a recent Harvard Crimson column warned future Rhodes Scholars about the miserable experience to be found at Oxford, current scholar Chelsea Purvis ’06 felt immediate indignation at the writers’ “attitude of ingratitude and entitlement.”
“There are problems at every university and imperfections in every city, but if the writers never even gathered realistic information about what Oxford would be like before they came, how is that anyone’s fault but their own?” Purvis said in an e-mail.
The Crimson op-ed has sparked an active debate about the purpose of the Rhodes...
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