Here's a Limerick on the blue bricks: https://www.oedilf.com/db/Lim.php?Word=blue%20brick%20university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
And a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's meant to be a way of segregating UK unis into blue and red bricks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_brick_university …
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Replying to @o_guest @ctitusbrown and
It's now customary to refer to Ox & Cam (and others!) as blue and Russel group as red, so both carry prestige — but obv the blues more so.
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Replying to @o_guest @blahah404 and
ahh kind of "ivy league" but with a few extra hundred years added on :)
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Replying to @ctitusbrown @o_guest and
Ivy league is like someone forked the oxbridge repo on Brithub in the 1600s
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Replying to @blahah404 @ctitusbrown and
Cambridge was a fork of Oxford: "The university grew out of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with the townspeople"
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Replying to @geospacedman @blahah404 and
yeah, hence why longwall street exists and all the other battlements in ox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwall_Street …
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Replying to @o_guest @geospacedman and
Magdalen is well fortified from townsfolk getting pissed off cos they were treated badly, giving rise town vs gown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_and_gown …
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Replying to @o_guest @geospacedman and
omg I did not know this, asante sana
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Yeah, I mean: "the riot lasted two days and resulted in a large number of deaths among local citizens and students." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Scholastica_Day_riot …
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