第一，这位王小东笔者不认识。大概百度了一下，其言论笔者并不都赞同，所以标明了：“挺一下”——不是很多下，更不是“全挺”； 第二，清华百年校庆、“大师”问题，说了不少，就不多说了。 中青报发了这篇文章： 清华要做好自己的事，甭管别人说什么 摘一段： 王小东：我个人认为，那张图片官本位的设计并不好，但是网上很多批评也是在胡说。比如有人说“梅贻琦是清华创始人，应该排第一个”；还有微博说“牛津大学出了多少国王、政治家，但在牛津自己的官方宣传材料里却几乎看不到”。实际上，梅贻琦不是清华创始人，牛津大学也把出了多少政治家等资料放在官方网站上。这些只要自己一查就知道，但很多人却什么都不查证，就制造和传播这些谣言。 顶一下！ 请见Oxford的官方网站： http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/oxford_people/famous_oxonians/index.html 太长的名单，下面只copy 20和21世纪的。 有意思的是，和清华一样，也是政治名人甚至帝王将相开头：第一个是个约旦国王；最后一个也和清华一样——是清华这次列的名单上的钱钟书！ Famous Oxonian s Throughout its history, Oxford has produced gifted men and women in every sphere of human endeavour who have studied or taught at the University. 20th 21st Centuries 19th Century 17th 18th Centuries 15th 16th Centuries 13th 14th Centuries Among these are 26 British Prime Ministers, including the current one, the Rt Hon David Cameron MP;at least 30international leaders; 47 Nobel Prize winners;7 current holders of the Order of Merit; at least12 saints and 20 Archbishops of Canterbury; andsome50 Olympic medal winners. At least 117 Oxonians were elected to Parliament in the UK's General Election in 2010, and more than140 sit in the House of Lords.The offices of Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer are all currently held by Oxford graduates, as are those of Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Secretary of State for Education, Secretary of State for Transport,Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. In addition, at least two members of the US House of Representatives, three members of the US Senate and one US State Governor were educated at Oxford. 20th 21st Centuries HM King Abdullah II of Jordan Sir Grantley Adams, Premier of Barbados, 1954-1958; Prime Minister of the West Indies, 1958-1962 J M G (Tom) Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados 1976-85 Diran Adebayo, author Samira Ahmed, journalist and presenter Monica Ali, author Tariq Ali, writer Rowan Atkinson, comedian Sir Kingsley Amis, author Lindsay Anderson, film-maker W H Auden, poet Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister, 1945-1951 Zeinab Badawi, journalist and broadcaster Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, 1956-1959 Sir Roger Bannister, neurologist and athlete Dame Josephine Barnes, first female President of the British Medical Association Marian Bell, economist Tony Benn, politician Alan Bennett, playwright Sir Lennox Berkeley, composer Sir Isaiah Berlin, philosopher Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web Sir John Betjeman, poet Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988-90 1993-96) Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President (1970-73) and Prime Minister (1972-77) of Pakistan Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister (1997-2007) Baruch S Blumberg, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Edmund Blunden, poet Henry Bonsu, journalist and broadcaster Dr Ian Bostridge, opera singer Sir Adrian Boult, conductor James Bowman, counter-tenor William Boyd, author Lord (Melvyn) Bragg, broadcaster Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States, 1994- Vera Brittain, writer Peter Brook, theatre director Fiona Bruce, broadcaster Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia, Prime Minister of Ghana 1969-72 Robert Byron, travel writer Rt Hon David Cameron MP,UK Prime Minister 2010- Baroness (Barbara) Castle, politician General Wesley Clark, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1997-2000 Bill Clinton, President of the United States, 1992-2000 Wendy Cope, poet Richard Curtis, screenwriter Cecil Day Lewis, poet Edward de Bono, philosopher David Dimbleby, journalist and broadcaster Sir John Eccles, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1963 John Edmonds, trade unionist T S Eliot, poet Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and broadcaster Helen Fielding, author Dr Amelia Fletcher, Chief Economist, Office of Fair Trading Lord Florey, Nobel Prize-winning pathologist Michèle Flournoy, US Under Secretary of Defense Emilia Fox, actress Lady Antonia Fraser, novelist and historian Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia, 1975-83 William Fulbright, politician, founder of the Fulbright Scholarships Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, 1966-77 1980-84 Dr Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the South African National Assembly William Golding, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Hugh Grant, actor Robert Graves, poet Graham Greene, author Sir John Grey Gorton, Prime Minister of Australia, 1968-1971 Mark Haddon, author J B S Haldane, geneticist Professor Stuart Hall, sociologist Harald V, King of Norway since 1991 Bob Hawke, Prime Minister of Australia, 1983-91 Professor Stephen Hawking, physicist Sir Edward Heath, UK Prime Minister, 1970-74 Joseph Heller, author Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Oscar-winning film-maker Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Tony Hoare, computer scientist Dorothy Hodgkin,Nobel Prize-winning chemist Edwin Hubble, astronomer Cardinal Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster, 1976-99 Aldous Huxley, author Armando Iannucci, writer and comedian Lord (Roy) Jenkins, former Home Secretary and Chancellor of the University Bobby Jindal, Governor of Louisiana, former US Congressman Luke Johnson, businessman, Chairman of Channel 4 Lakshman Kadirgamar, former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Natasha Kaplinsky, television presenter Imran Khan, Pakistani politician and former international cricketer Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan Soweto Kinch, jazz musician, saxophonist Dame Emma Kirkby, soprano John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001-2009 Haruhiko Kuroda, President of the Asian Development Bank Martha Lane Fox, businesswoman, co-founder of lastminute.com Philip Larkin, poet T E Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia Nigella Lawson, chef and broadcaster John Le Carre, author C S Lewis, writer and scholar Ken Loach, film-maker Alain Locke, philosopher and architect of the Harlem Renaissance Richard G Lugar, United States Senator Val McDermid, crime writer Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum Harold Macmillan, UK Prime Minister, 1957-63 Norman Manley, Leader of Jamaica, 1955-62 Chief Justice Mrs Sujata Vasant Manohar, Judge of the Supreme Court of India 1994-99 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister (and later President) of Fiji Sir Peter Medawar, scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology 1960 Ved Mehta, author Roland Michener, Governor-General of Canada 1967-74 Dame Barbara Mills, first female Director of Public Prosecutions Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, 1955-1958 1971-1984 Dudley Moore, actor, comedian, musician Dom Moraes, poet Kate Mosse, novelist Dame Iris Murdoch, philosopher and author Rupert Murdoch, Director, News International plc Arthur Mutambara, Deputy Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, 2009- Mylo, DJ V S Naipaul, Nobel Prize-winning author Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan Rageh Omaar, journalist Viktor Orbán, Prime Ministerof Hungary (2010- and1998-2002) and leader of the Fidesz political party Michael Palin, actor and writer Lester B Pearson, Prime Minister of Canada, 1963-1968, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Robert Penn Warren, American poet laureate Rosamund Pike, actress Sir Matthew Pinsent, four times Olympic Gold Medal-winning rower Dennis Potter, playwright Philip Pullman, author Hugh Quarshie, actor DrOlli Rehn, EU Commissioner for Enlargement Dr Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the United Nations Rachel Riley, co-host on Channel 4's Countdown Nick Robinson, journalist Hon Raymond Robinson, President of Trinidad and Tobago, 1997-2003 General Sir Michael Rose, former UN Commander in Bosnia Michael Rosen, children's novelist and poet Lord (Robert) Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1980-1991 Sir Martin Ryle, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement Dorothy L Sayers, author Ernst Schumacher, economist Pixley Seme, founder of the African National Congress Vikram Seth, author Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, 2004- JacquiSmith, first femaleHome Secretary (2007-2009) Professor Oliver Smithies, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Medicine Laura Solon, comedian Cornelia Sorabji, India’s first female lawyer John Spratt, United States Congressman Rick Stein, chef and broadcaster Lord (Nicholas) Stern, economist, author of the Stern Review into the Economics of Climate Change, 2006 Aung San Suu Kyi, leader, Burmese National League for Democracy and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize A J P Taylor, historian Baroness (Margaret) Thatcher, UK Prime Minister, 1979-90 Sir Wilfred Thesiger, explorer and anthropologist Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC Lester Thurow, economist J R R Tolkien, author and academic Margaret Turner-Warwick, first woman President of the Royal College of Physicians Revd Chad Varah, founder of the Samaritans David Vitter, United States Congressman Baroness (Mary) Warnock, philosopher Evelyn Waugh, author Sir Andrew Wiles, mathematician Dr Eric Williams, historian and politician, Chief Minister of Trinidad and Tobago 1956-1959, Premier 1959-1962, Prime Minister 1962-1981 Ivy Williams, first female barrister in the UK Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury since 2002 Baroness Shirley Williams, politician Dr Heather Wilson, former United States Congresswoman Michael Winterbottom, film-maker Jeanette Winterson, author Qian Zhongsu, Chinese academic and writer
英国牛津大学宣布耗资1亿镑（约12亿港元）打造「布拉瓦尼克政治学院」（Blavatnik School of Government），它将成为全欧洲首间旨在培育「明日世界领袖」的学院，向哈佛大学挑战。首批学生将在2012年入学，修读1年的密集硕士课程，接受旨在解决21世纪各式新议题的跨学科培训。 美国实业家、慈善家布莱维尼克慷慨解囊， 前所未有地 (unprecedentedly)捐款7500万英镑，以用于2012年该校开设一所崭新的政府学院。该学院旨在促进政府和公共政策研究。 此举获得了包括纳尔逊曼德拉、美国前总统比尔克林顿、联合国前秘书长安南等世界级领袖的支持。 根据计划，布拉瓦尼克政府学院将开设一系列硕士学位实践课程。学科设置将涵盖人文科学、社会科学、法律、科学、技术、卫生、金融、能源和安全政策等领域。 该学院还将设立40个全新学位。 牛津大学的校长彭定康勋爵说：这是牛津大学百年难得的机遇。通过布拉瓦尼克的捐助，牛津大学将处于世界领先地位，不仅体现在培训未来政府及公共政策方面的领导人方面，而且体现在这些领导人管理时将采取的不同的传统、体制和文化的方式等方面。这是整个世界创建未来的良好政府的非常重要的时刻。 The Blavatnik School of Government, Europes first major school of government, was launched today at the University of Oxford. American industrialist and philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik has committed 75 million to make the School possible and is ready to consider additional measures of support. Mr Blavatniks gift is one of the most generous in the Universitys 900-year history. The University is contributing an additional 26 million as well as land in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, where the School will be located. The School will train outstanding graduates from across the world in the skills and responsibilities of government. This global outlook will reflect the strongly international character of Oxfords graduate community, two-thirds of whose number are from overseas. It will provide a highly practical series of courses, leading to a Masters degree, with a unique balance of the humanities, social sciences, law, science, technology, health, finance, energy and security policy. The School will support over 40 academic posts at Oxford. It will also draw on the teaching skills of a much wider range of world leaders in education, business and government itself. The first students will start in 2012 and student numbers will increase to approximately 120 within the next few years. An international search for the inaugural Dean is currently underway, and planning has begun to design the building to house the new School. World leaders around the globe have expressed support, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, former US president Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.Lord Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, said: This is a once-in-a-century opportunity for Oxford. Through the Blavatnik benefaction, Oxford will now become the worlds leading centre for the training of future leaders in government and public policy and in ways that take proper account of the very different traditions, institutions and cultures that those leaders will serve. It is an important moment for the future of good government throughout the world. Mr Blavatnik, the guest of honour at todays opening ceremony in Oxford, emphasized that Oxford Universitys reputation provides the School with the opportunity to bring together distinguished teachers and leaders in government to address the entire spectrum of policy issues. My family and I look forward to the Schools significant contribution to all nations and citizens of the world in the years ahead. Professor Andrew Hamilton, the Universitys Vice-Chancellor, said: The School represents a huge milestone in Oxfords history. It will give tomorrows leaders the best of Oxfords traditional strengths alongside new and practical ways of understanding and addressing the challenges of good governance. The University has educated 26 British Prime Ministers and over 30 other world leaders, yet until now the major international schools of government have all been outside Europe, principally in the United States. The establishment of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford will correct that imbalance. British Prime Minister David Cameron, an Oxford graduate, called Mr Blavatniks gift a very generous act of philanthropy and said the School would create a new avenue for training and research in the crucial field of good government and public policy in this country and around the world.
So here is Oxford！ 英国卢瑟福-阿普尔顿实验室见闻 卢 瑟福-阿普尔顿实验室（RAL），这就是它的招牌，简 洁明快，一点都不需要招摇。 卢瑟福-阿普尔顿实验室全貌，从1921年至今，这个实验室由阿普尔顿实验室和卢瑟福高能实验室等诸多优秀的实验室合并而成， 成为核物理、同步辐射光源、散裂中子源、空间科学、粒子天体物理、信息技术、大功率激光、多学科应用研究的中心。右边的大圆圈就是质子加速器，最左边的建筑就是我们在的ISIS散裂中子源实验站。若干年后（也许是5-10年），中国也将拥有这么庞大的散裂中子源CSNS，也许全世界的科学家也会来中国做实验了。 这个实验室实际位于Oxford也就是牛津郡的Didcot镇的Harwell村里头，可真是地地道道的农村啊。实际上坐Bus到Oxford还得半个多小时，去Cambridge就不知道了，太远啦 左下角的乌鸦是这里最常见到的鸟，当然还有不少喜鹊。我跟搭档说在中国乌鸦啊啊的叫声预示灾祸，因为它们老是在坟地里出现，大家会紧张地认为它们在召唤孤魂野鬼 这个就是大圈圈加速器的一角。实验室没有围墙，只有铁丝网，大门处也没有站岗的哨兵，甚至保安的很少看到。进出实验室也是靠主动跑到旁边的小门刷卡，好像不刷卡直接从大门走也没人拦你。这和许多反应堆实验站的荷枪实弹巡逻加上每次的全身安检相比，实在是太大意了啊。 墙角的小刺猬，一次晚上回旅馆时候发现的。这么一个搞放射物质研究的实验室，一点都不感到有什么恐怖气氛，相反到处都是小动物，简直比人还多 旅馆前面的草坪，别忘了这是如假包换的农村。老外最喜欢干的事情之一估计就是修理门口的草坪了，看到过好多人家门口的树都是那么有型，草坪总是这么整齐干净，好舒爽啊！ 实验室门口的小野兔，我意外地发现它们居然天天在这里逛，而且不止一只两只，简直是一个Group！有时把人视若无物，有时听到脚步声会机警地跑，然后你的非常费劲地才能发现原来它还在那里！这可是我费了二十分钟才偷拍到的，瞧它的小眼睛，多可爱啊！ 终于忍不住忙里偷闲今天去了一趟Oxford。这就是Museum of Oxford，里面介绍了Oxford的历史典故等。原来Oxford起源于Oxbridge，还是与桥有关，这座桥至今还叫这名。怪不得老喜欢和Cambridge赛艇，谁让咱们有缘啊！ 一个教堂，历史可老了，里面几乎每块地砖都刻有名字，大概是埋有他们的骨灰，我随便看了几个，妈呀！居然有1665年的老鬼！ 这就是教堂里面，左边一群学生好像在拍什么话剧吧，中间那个用白布蒙着的，您觉得像啥？实际上是教堂在装修，呵呵。 这是教堂后院的塔，可能是钟楼吧。教堂前台的MM（看起来应该是位中国同胞）竭力推荐我们爬上去看看Oxford全景，不过要三镑，囊中羞涩，拍个照到此一游就闪人了 还是门口遇到的中国旅游团里那位大妈说的好：反正这就是牛津了嘛！That is it，so here is Oxford! hoho! 桥接的两栋楼，你站上桥上看风景，看风景的人也在看你。 Museum of Sciences 里发现的一个玩意，猜猜是啥？这是一个静电产生器，居然可以达到15万伏的电压！这个博物馆有很多好玩的早期科学仪器，如电报、电话、望远镜、显微镜、化学用的各种玻璃管等，很是好玩。 一座尖塔，没仔细看是纪念谁的，可真是很有历史的沧桑感。这可绝对不是八达岭长城砖上的水泥所能比拟哦！ 这才是一个真正的坟地，住在这里的兄弟估计睡了几百年了，也没有人去骚扰他们，好安详啊！ Frist Church of Christ.Scientist,不知道这是干嘛的，科学家第一基督教堂？不过看起来像个咖啡馆或是小旅馆。 这车筐，绝对那个又结实又环保呀！街上很多自行车都是这样的哦。 Oxford Castle。这个城堡估计也有些年代了，岁月布满了脸庞。 扫把独角兽，够牛的雕塑吧？这可是打造自家特色花园的样本。 这是基督大教堂，是Oxford的主教堂，可惜里面不让进去参观，从外面看建筑很漂亮很漂亮。 大教堂墙上的一颗树，像不像一个长胡子的智者？抑或是耶稣受难的形象？ 教堂外的大草坪，真是养眼！旁边就是赛艇的河道了。在这儿读大学，那叫一个爽啊！ Didcot镇上的小屋，好像是家旅馆。老百姓都是住这种房子，什么是资本主义？就是人人都有House住有小车开。什么是**主义？就是人人都买不起小小的单元房然后天天花几个小时挤公交。哎！
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