Many of these universities had constituent colleges for women, a few examples being Girton at Cambridge, St. Anne’s at Oxford and Radcliffe at Harvard. I remember another tradition about dating at Oxford, regrettably not through personal experience. This practice used to be called “sporting the oak”, the American campus equivalent of hanging a tie on your door. I am hopeful that many who know my ex-wife, even my ex-wife herself, would find this obvious canard deliciously infuriating. Based on this nugget of wisdom, I have finally aged well enough to become the man my ex-wife thought she married.

Source: The Nation October 10, 2021 00:56 UTC