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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But have no facts.[/quote]

Yes, you also have your facts wrong.

You also jump back and forth between when Harvard and William & Mary were founded 300+ years ago and today, and that is causing a disconnect.  The founders of Harvard and William & Mary did attempt to model them on the Oxford and Cambridge at that time.  But neither Oxford or Cambridge nor Harvard or William & Mary bears much resemblance to that time.  The key facts of today are that Oxford and Cambridge have a tutorial system which is used very little at the undergraduate level in the U.S.  There may be some of it in honors programs and schools like Williams.

The other clear distinction, as I previously noted, is that Oxford and Cambridge today focus on depth in one subject area.  A liberal arts education is much broader, often with distribution requirements.

So you can hang your hat on an argument that 300 years ago they were similar, and that there is some shared tendency to have more residential and more personal experiences, but the type of education is quite different.[/quote]

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