As both town and gown, it's always nice to read about Oxford history. The article doesn't touch on the huge contribution made by students "in the trenches" too so to speak; the UK upper-classes having an unusually strong military tradition. I was reflecting today about the exceptional poetry that came out of the UK during WWI, and I guess academic progress in the UK during WWII is perhaps that war's equivalent
Yes, the sight of 60 names on the WW1 memorial board in the JCR at Lincoln was always quite sobering, considering what the student population must have been in 1914. It's still a small college but that would have been an enormous proportion at the time.
