Peter Millican's Thousand Years of Oxford Plagues

Peter Millican (1958-),
Hertford College,
Oxford

Peter Millican tolls a thousand years

Of Oxford plagues, and even older tears.

The sweep of his tragedies makes me a fan.

I can’t tell you this tale of woes. But Millican.

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88th Annual NYC Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Dinner (Virtual), Today 2 PM EST

December 27, 2020—Lest 2020 pass us by without a New York City Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race Dinner, please join us for a Virtual Dinner featuring delights of many kinds. 

Today, Sunday, 2 pm, Eastern Standard Time. Zoom link below.

The 88th Annual Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race Dinner

VIRTUAL Gathering | TODAY 2 PM EST | Sunday, December 27, 2020

JOIN: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79455328883?pwd=Z0tlMEFrUGxCMEFXUy9uQitJL1Y3dz09 Zoom Meeting ID: 794 5532 8883 Zoom Passcode: ca2Q4f Black Tie / Boat Club Blazer Optional Christmas Sweaters Acceptable

Join us for a humorous look at: OXBRIDGE GOES TO WASHINGTON (again and again) Trump, Biden, Oxbridge, and the District of Columbia with Sean C. Denniston OXBRIDGE COMES TO AMERICA (shovels in hand) Harvard, Pennsylvania, and the Founding of America with John Tepper Marlin With performances from: The Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

While we cannot meet in person this year, we invite you to join us virtually for our 88th consecutive annual celebration of Oxford and Cambridge scholarship, sport, and camaraderie. Consider our invitation a Boxing Day surprise present during this holiday season, because we all deserve a pleasant surprise in 2020.

Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race Dinner of New York 500 5th Ave Fl 32 New York, NY  10110-3299

OXFORD | How the Vaccine Was Created

Status of vaccine candidates as of December 19.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is expected to
be the most affordable. Two were approved as
of the date of the chart—Pfizer and Moderna.

December 24, 2020—On Christmas Eve this year, we celebrate the season hunkered down and socially distant.

We are all waiting for the vaccine that will allow us to escape from the twilight zone of Covid-19 life.

While Americans have started to roll out the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, most of the world is looking to the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. 

It will be sold at cost in poorer countries and does not require ultra-low refrigeration, just normal refrigeration levels.

The Guardian has just produced an illuminating walk-through of the process by which the Oxford vaccine has been generated in double-quick time. It should be a source of pride for any Oxonian.

The Oxford vaccine is expected to be approved in the UK shortly after Christmas. Here is The Lancet's review of the trials so far.

OXBRIDGE MUSIC | Advent and Christmas Choruses

Broad Street, Oxford

YouTube clips of Advent and Christmas choruses (which is your favorite?)

Christmas Choruses Kings, Cambridge (much-awaited Christmas Eve service).  Preview ("Once in David's Royal City," from the 100th Anniversary chorus in 2018) 👍 Oxford Advent Christ Church (59 minutes, 2020, startling cinematography)👍 Corpus Christi Magdalen (56 minutes, 2020) Merton New College Pembroke St. Peter’s Cambridge Advent Clare Downing Jesus Trinity (2019 service) (Hat tip to New England Branch of the Oxford University Society for the Advent links.) Oxford University Press book