That, more or less, was the lifestyle of Oxbridge dons for most of the past century.
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Also having cut their teeth on Oxbridge satire, the Pythons chose their comic targets more carefully.
How would you know if people were recruiting from lists of Oxbridge friends of friends?
The final column measures the relative impact for Oxbridge entrance of being born in that month compared to August.
In some respects, Oxbridge appears to be bending over backwards to change its intake.
Most of the Lunar men were from non-conformist backgrounds and so not part of an Oxbridge-educated elite.
Thus those who have been older within their year groups are more likely to reach Oxbridge than their younger classmates.
Instead, a Nevis-based advisory firm called Oxbridge International had arranged it without the knowledge or authorization of Pegasus.
Before Ben, two men and two women performed a mildewed sketch show of unmistakable Oxbridge vintage, circa 1994.
So is this evidence for the government's suspicion that Oxbridge remains biased in favour of the privately educated?
In other words, the Oxbridge admissions process is probably reflecting a pre-established pattern of educational disadvantage, not creating it.
Both are attractive, Oxbridge-educated women of exotic provenance (Ms Smith is half Jamaican, Ms Ali was born in Bangladesh).
She was the first pupil from her school to get an Oxbridge place.
Fellow Oxbridge graduate James Scudamore is selected for his novel The Amnesia Clinic.
The seat contains an ancient and beautiful city with an esteemed university based on the collegiate system of Oxbridge.
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The atmosphere inside reminded me of an Oxbridge College or a London Club.
It is hardly Oxbridge's fault that the proportion of privately educated pupils it accepts has risen as a result.
Whatever the explanation, this self-selection by pupils and schools is no reason to take the axe to Oxbridge's cash.
And British university students, especially those at Oxbridge, come disproportionately from prosperous families.
Back in the 1960s, Oxbridge colleges and gentlemen's clubs cultivated fine cellars, but most people stuck firmly to their beer.
Of course the number of people actually born in each month also varies, but this does not explain the variation in Oxbridge admissions.
The vast majority of UK applicants to Oxbridge are from England and Wales, where school year groups are formed on a September-August basis.
Howard Jacobson's on British humour could have been written in ten minutes and Simon Heffer's on Oxbridge is a dull rant.
But at university level, with the exception of Oxbridge, Oxford Brookes, London and Durham, British rowing is not up to much.
But the Financial Services Authority, the British version of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has been warning consumers about Oxbridge since last fall.
That shut off one of the main avenues to Oxbridge open to children from families who could not afford private education.
But the lack of Welsh state school pupils in Oxbridge and other top universities cannot simply be put down to the WBQ.
Private schools generally produce better exam results and therefore better Oxbridge candidates.
Posh, about an elite Oxbridge dining society - a thinly-disguised Bullingdon Club - played to 100% capacity at the Royal Court in 2010.
Saving Canaletto paintings for the nation and funding Oxbridge colleges are both important but not "charitable" in the popular sense of the term.
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