Britain’s Oxford and Cambridge universities are esteemed around the world. Unkind suggestions exist in some minds that, while they are both stellar in standing, Cambridge is a Bentley to Oxford’s Rolls Royce. Is there a chronological genesis in the view that Oxford is a tad more eminent and prestigious than its rival?
Answer: It’s been suggested that as Oxford was established before Cambridge – indeed 9th century Alfred the Great, no less, was Oxford’s claimed scholarly genesis – comparatively speaking Cambridge is somewhat of the new boy on the block as it first saw the light of day in 1209.
Source: A History of England by Paul Johnson
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