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From: John Hill <yclept@outlook.com>
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> John Hill <yclept@outlook.com> wrote:
>> Andrews <andrews@spam.net> wrote:
>>> John Hill wrote on Mon, 4 Nov 2024 09:33:37 -0000 (UTC) :
>>> 
>>>> As a research physicist by training, profession and inclination I needed to
>>>> read no further. I now know that I can safely disregard anything you write.
>>>> But I'm in awe of your inventive abilities.
>>> 
>>> I have a college degree. You do not. 
>> 
>> Well now! That is a very dogmatic assertion, made out of total ignorance.
>> 
>> In actual fact, I have a BA and a DPhil in Physics at Oxford. (That is the
>> Oxford equivalent of PhD at most universities).
> 
> He won't believe you in the same way he didn't believe me. 
> 
>> And I can prove it, naturally. 
> 
> I offered to do a show-and-tell with him with my PhD certificate if he was
> willing to show his college "degrees". He chickened out. 
> 
>> But it would be better, since you are who
>> you are, for you to look it up for yourself.
>> 
>> But perhaps you do not regard Oxford as a proper college?
> 
> Depends which one(s) you were in ;-)

Keble. But that is really only significant as an undergraduate, and then
only from a tutorial point of view. Lectures, practical work were
university matters. Post graduate work was pretty much independent of
college, far more on your supervisor.

Old John.

-- 
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Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.