«There are a many good books about Oxford, particularly about Oxford architecture, but there is no book which describes, as Mr Balsdon does, the day-to-day life of undergraduates, dons, and College servants from the moment Oxford wakes up from the Long Vacation to greet the Freshman each October, until, with the publication of the Class Lists, it pronounces sentence on the Third- and Fourth-Year man and goes to sleep again in the following July.»
«There are a many good books about Oxford, particularly about Oxford architecture, but there is no book which describes, as Mr Balsdon does, the day-to-day life of undergraduates, dons, and College servants from the moment Oxford wakes up from the Long Vacation to greet the Freshman each October, until, with the publication of the Class Lists, it pronounces sentence on the Third- and Fourth-Year man and goes to sleep again in the following July.»