PaNiCAtTtaCk wrote: The district overseer said that he was visiting with a man at the door and he read some books from the society and that they were college level quality. He said that we were getting thousands of dollars worth of education for free and come to find out this man had been the HEAD MAN AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
(everyone in the audience gasped with excitment at this point)
Something that I left out was the fact that this man was interested to know if our organization had any schools. So of course he said YES! We have the theocratic ministry school and he wanted to see the book we study at this school so they brought him one back. After reading the theocratic ministry school guidbook and a few magazines the man said that our publications were on a college level and that we were getting a college education that would have costed thousands of dollars for free.
"Thousands of dollars of education" is not a statement that would generally be made either as it is not meaningful to the British due to the differences between University education funding in the UK and the US.
Earnest, this may generally be true of the Cambridge Colleges (though King's has a Provost and Queens' has a President, for example), but at Oxford, the "head' person of the college is variously titled President, Provost, Principal, Warden or Master.
.... and a bursar who is "head man" of the students in that college.
I would have said that the bursar is in charge of the finances, not the students in the college.
Oxford University, England, is a collegiate university with 39 self-governing colleges related to the University in something akin to a federal system.
The current Chancellor of the University is the Rt Hon Chris Patten (a Roman Catholic) who was appointed following the death of the Rt Hon Lord Jenkins (a liberal humanist) - both highly educated men.
I am at a loss to know who could have been meant by the "Head Man at Oxford University' and after a review of the magazines I would suggest that they are in a similar league to Readers' Digest magazines rather than the academic offerings of a respected University.
Oxford University is held to be one of the best universities in England and the world, although latest reports place it only 10th of the world's top 50 universities,
If the DO is faithfully reporting a conversation, then maybe Oxford has slipped further down the league tables than we have been led to believe ;)
On the other hand, each college has a Head Porter whose duties are not of an academic nature............
