Surely the issue of the legitimacy of a single sex group comes down to what the group is for. Meritocratic selection optimises the intake of talent. eg. a University makes offers to potential undergraduates on the basis of percieved academic merit; sex doesn't enter into the consideration because it...
Smashing job with the website. Very well put together and thorough in content. I especially approve of the retaining of the rules about not dissing HMQ, which disappeared for a bit last years, and head-covering when raising a POI. As an alumnus and paid-up member of the Things-were-better-in-my-day ...
Quoting fearghas from 14:44, 15th May 2008 I was under one became a graduand as soon as the last exam was done; so that the only option left for you was to graduate. You have done everything required to be a graduate, bar graduating. I thought that one became a graduand when the the degree classifi...
Quoting Lid from 00:19, 17th Apr 2008 The tartan lapels in the chap at the bottom would look almost admissable, if he didn't look a combination of gaudy and Moss Bros on acid. Is the chap one down on the left a slightly less well co-ordinated relation of Dr Joss? The chap at top left looks like if ...
Quoting Mr Comedy from 15:19, 25th Mar 2008 Quick question: - are brown shoes with a dark suit ever acceptable? [hr] "I am in no way interested in immortality, but only in the taste of tea. " -Lu Tung Perhaps if both the suit and the shoes are a dark brown. Otherwise dangerous waters indeed.
Quoting mhuzzell from 11:29, 10th Mar 2008 However, as a point of manners I must agree: men's hats should be removed indoors. More or less. Though a hat should of course be removed in homes and restaurants there is no need to remove hats in shops, lobbies, taxis or trains. I suppose the rule is if ...
Quoting KateBush from 16:07, 2nd Mar 2008 My bed was next door to the nurses’ station, so you could see how the whole place was being run. Actually, you could not: I have seen lots of things being run, but after a week, I could not tell you who was in charge. I had absolutely no idea who was tellin...
Quoting jen the phantom hobbit of the opera from 16:50, 25th Feb 2008 It was laid on Sunday as part of the Founders and Benefactors Chapel service in commemoration of Patrick Hamilton and all Christian martyrs. [hr] The voices in my head tell me I'm not insane ... but everyone else does. Given that...
He said he would not be here next Saturday, but that he would be here on Wednesday, so his last night could be Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. The point is Wednesday is the last post-debate evening that he will be working on.
Dear readers, Lawrence of the Balaka, good friend to the society and all round good egg, informs me that he will be leaving said restaurant for pastures new. Wednesday night is one of his last shifts. Given that the Balaka is the society's second home and that Lawrence has been an exemplary and pati...
I will be staying in St Andrews over Christmas and would be quite happy to look after your chinchilla. I am a Senior Honours Zoologist which may qualify me.
Victorians certainly wore bow-ties with double (fold-down) collars. However when they did the collar was folded over the points of the bow tie, as modeled by Jeremy Brett playing Sherlock Holmes below: http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/h/holmes2.jpg Wing collars are more usually worn with bowties b...
Quoting exnihilo from 12:20, 27th Apr 2007 Of course, we only ever sing verses 1, 4 and 7 - which is a real shame, because some of the others are much nicer, much more upbeat, and much more obviously university-related. Ho hum. Verse five was included in the Gaudeamus lyrics sheet as produced and d...