My St. Andrews thoughts and reminiscences have now been hived off to a new blog. Today’s post is about student accommodation – but not quite as we knew it. Here’s the link. http://saintandrewsalphabet.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/d-is-for-deans-court/ Continue reading The other place
Somewhere amongst my souvenirs I’m sure I have a dusty photo of John Cleese but for now it is lost without trace and so I’ll have to make do with this one from Wikipedia. But this is how he looked in 1971, when I was still a first year student (yes, for those who like the … Continue reading C is for something Completely different
Today I’ve been scanning the obits of K.J. Dover who died a week ago. Dover was my professor of Greek at St. Andrews University and a commanding figure though not in the way one might have assumed. By the time I arrived in 1970, he had already put St. Andrews on the map for classics, but … Continue reading Memento Mori
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