At Oxford University, the students' union president, Kirsty McNeill, told BBC News Online the introduction of top-up fees would drag the university back to its Brideshead image of social exclusivity.
This Spinal Tap meets Brideshead launch event was held at the British Academy in London - and academy fellow Lord Bragg emphasised the importance of not allowing the humanities to be eclipsed by the sciences.
Among the millions of names and numbers online are prime minister Harold McMillan at his cottage in Chelwood Gate, composer Edward Elgar at his estate in Warwickshire and writer Evelyn Waugh at the home in the West Country where he wrote Brideshead Revisited.