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"My desire is to help democratise knowledge by putting online as much as possible of the world's inheritance of knowledge and literary expression and make it freely available to all comers."

CATS brought the cream

“Students feel passionately about English at Newnham. It’s one of the best colleges in terms of the writers it’s produced in modern times"

Cellular vision

“We need funding to get the best people to take on these really serious scientific and medical challenges”

College callers

“Sex has been liberalised, but talking about money is a bit more problematic in some regards!”

A new lexicon

"We hope this lexicon will increase their chances of making progress and that as a result, knowledge of the language will spread"

On the buses

"As we've got to know our driver, he's started coming to watch the matches to cheer us on"

Surgeon tearaway

“I enjoy it but it’s pretty crazy. I don’t get a lot of sleep doing this and having four children!”

Heavens above

"We are like fish in a goldfish bowl, so it’s really important that some people spend time looking out of the goldfish bowl”

In dulci jubilo

“What delights me is the number of people who comment on how fantastic it looks"