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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW there are new scholarships you should took at if your students wants to study at Oxford as a post grad.  The Barry and The Fortescue.  https://www.barryscholarship.org/.  These scholarships provide room, board, tuition and spending allowance and 3 round trips to  home each year.[/quote]

Thanks PP. How does a student get tapped for a nomination for the Barry scholarship? The website says that students cannot apply, they must be nominated. But I don’t see any info on who makes a nomination. Would the student express interest to his or her university, then the university takes it from there?[/quote]

Interesting. Based on the profiles of the students, this scholarship seems to lean moderate to conservative in terms of the students and their academic affiliations and extracurricular pursuits. [/quote]
I[b]t really is a snooze fest of students. Yes, we need more scholars of the classics, that is what is most needed to support scholarships to Oxford :? [/quote]
It is getting so tired with the conservatives. You'd think the "Western Civilization is dying" cult would support STEM or even modern historians, but classics? An over bloated field with no prospects in it.[/q[/b]

Bit upiuote] but you cannot know the development of civilization, ever ours, without studying the past.  Look at Mao and the Geat Leap Forward.  We are living that.  Loo at Weimar.  We are living through that. Look at Stalin, we are there.[/quote]

I don’t mean to be dismissive of history, particularly the classics, as these are notable fields with important contributions to our understanding of How we got this version of society.

But…I don’t see the need much for classicists. It used to be foundational to understanding political structure in the west and aesthetics of western civ, but we have a home-grown field that does this exact thing without learning dead languages: American Studies. These departments have grown and outpaced many classics departments because they do the same thing without the “old white men” aesthetics. I see little reason why we cannot move on and rework our understanding of western civ in the context of the worlds oldest democracy.[/quote]

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