Frances, we've already discussed Oxford but not the Ivy's. I'm not sure that they turn out great minds and the Rhodes Scholar from Harvard that was at Queen's when I was there, on his first day in the MCR said, "How do get laid in this town?" A friend of mine said, "You would be better advised to spend your time in the library."

After I graduated from Oxford I toyed with the idea of doing a PhD and spoke to Charles Issawi at Princeton and Alan Bullit at Columbia. Issawi was ok but I couldn't believe Bullit or his attitudes. He was full of nonsensical modernistic jargon laden approach to history. I have an extract from Columbia's Middle East South Asian and African Studies program that I would like to send you. It is so badly written and possessed of such intellectually sloppy thinking that it is an embarrassment that it came out of one of our so-called top skools! (Deliberate misspelling)

As to English literature please see my thoughts on it if you'd like to have a debate.

https://medium.com/be-open/a-few-opinions-on-english-russian-and-american-literature-ddbfe1d312c5