Britain | Oxford v Cambridge
Trailing in its wake
How and why the fortunes of England’s two ancient university towns diverged
|OXFORD
THEIR rivalry is most vividly expressed each spring, when two boats splash up the River Thames. They compete for brilliant academics and for the aura of intellectual superiority that draws the cleverest students to their colleges. But Cambridge and Oxford also compete in more prosaic ways—as cities and as economies, as places to live and to set up businesses. And here there is no real competition.
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