Plate Glass Universities
Three of the "Plate glass universities", Lancaster, York and Kent, have a similar system, although their colleges operate on a different legal footing to those at Durham and Oxbridge.
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—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)
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“It is difficult to read. The page is dark.
Yet he knows what it is that he expects.
The page is blank or a frame without a glass
Or a glass that is empty when he looks.”
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