THE P RTAL
July 2014
UK Pages - page 14
Thoughts on Newman
Long Vacation
Dr Stephen Morgan examines a long-held tradition at Oxford
and Cambridge, and Newman’s experience of it
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society increasingly obsessed with usefulness and immediately obvious results, the long vacation of
the Oxford University summer is often criticised as an archaism, a relic of former times, no longer justified
or justifiable as we strive demonstrate that we have wrung every penny’s worth of value from our universities.
Yet Newman’s life in Oxford demonstrates that if we
suspend our im F