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Brian Cathcart's slightly flippant article is unfair. Universities have to start somewhere. Even Cambridge began as an offshoot of Oxford. One can imagine medieval parents thinking their offspring had failed by going to Cambridge, not Oxford.
Peter Stockill
Middlesbrough, Cleveland
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