Hobsbawm on his alma mater Cambridge. Does it resemble AMU to an extent? Cambridge [University] has changed so profoundly since the 1950s that it is difficult to grasp just how isolated and parochial the place was in the 1930s even academically…With the exception of its world class economics, it refused to recognize the social sciences. Its arts subjects were, at best, patchy. …It took little interest in research [which was considered] middle class affectation. ..it was even more difficult not to get a degree at all. It had few places for eating meals out.. Indeed, compared to Oxford, Cambridge was surprisingly remote from the centres of national life. It was centre of ‘intellectual aristocracy’, a network of intermarrying professional families…was penetrated by the tribal customs of the British boarding schools. Academic life came to stop for two or three hours every afternoon. Cambridge’s purpose, at least in arts, was not to train experts, but to form members of a ruling class.
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